Museum and Ewah Shopping

I'm going to try to recap the past 48 hours to the best of my ability because I think I have early onset Alzheimers or something lol.  Saturday morning/afternoon were spent frivolously.  I did nothing, accomplished nothing, and I think I got dumber watching dramas lol.  Saturday evening, however, I got out of my dorm and was actually productive! That evening, I went to the National Museum of Korea, and let me tell you, it's enormous.  There's apparently a main exhibit center that houses the permanent collection and a west wing that houses the special exhibitions   There's also a performance theatre and a Pagoda Garden that was just gorgeous. Entrance into the main exhibition hall is free and even thought that building is only 3 stories high, it's really like 10+ stories because each floor was gigantic.  The artifacts date back from neolithic to Joseon, Shilla, Goryeo, Goguryeo, etc time periods/dynasties.  I spent hours there just to hunt down the pieces I was suppose to be commenting on for my art class and some of the artifacts were really interesting.  Here are some pictures of the museum:

I really wanted to find the Dragon Falls (sad excuse for a waterfall btw. it doesn't look like the picture and it's worse than our little waterfall at Imperial Garden lol) and went down some trodden path following the sound of flowing water but that ended up being a dead end.  On the way out of that wooded area, I swear I heard footsteps behind me or something.  Needless to say,I skedaddled out of there as quickly as I could and I definitely won't be going down any scary horror movie looking trails again.  I wandered into the park that's right beside the museum (y-something family park) and it's pretty amazing.  There are ponds and apparently on the other side  of the park there were ecological wastelands.  I walked around that area for an hour or so and found the I'Park mall!  The I'Park mall is where I got my cellphone and it's on massive shopping mall. 

Unfortunately, it was closing up when I got there so I went to the E-Mart downstairs and got some really nice smelling hand sanitizer (yay for clean!). By the time I turned on my cellphone to check the time, it was already past 10 and I think the train stops running at 11 or something like that so I was freakin out because I was appx 1 hr. away from the Anam Station (my dorm stop fyi).  Fortunately, I got on one of the last trains on that route and made it home.  Oh! I saw some people filming a mug scene on Anam Street.  I sat there and watched it until they packed up.  That stabbing/mugging scene took many shots and it was interesting watching the actor scream out the actresses names 5X's because the director wasn't happy with how he screamed it out the time before lol.  I bought some cheese chips from the mart afterwards and let me tell you, cheese flavored anything in Korea is basically sweet and smells rancid.  There is no real cheese here so to those who like cheese and want to come here, you are forewarned.

The Ewah Women's University and the Sinchon areas are 짱 for shopping.  Seriously, because there are so many stores targeting women, it's like shopping paradise for me. They have stores solely for shoes, clothes, accessories, and jewlery.  There's even a store sole for condoms...I wonder what that implies lol

haha...it says "be safe" on the window

As I was walking around, I stumbled across the famous Issac's Sandwich Place.  It's a little hole in the wall shop with a red sign but they make the best sandwiches.  I only got the cheese sandwich (like a grilled cheese with an omelet inside) and it sound simple but sometime simple is the best.  I walked around that area for forever and saw the Charlie Brown Cafe. I thought I could find it again later but to no avail, I lost it.  I walked around in the same giant circle about 3X's and got frustrated to I settled down at a Smoothie King to study for one of my midterms.  I got the cutest bows at Ewah and I  am definitely going back to get more ^^

Giant shoe:

My bow! I feel like Minnie Mouse with such a giant red bow lol

Unfortunately, I saw like 5 million couples hand in hand and I can honestly say, I'm mildly jealous.  Just looking at them being all lovey-dovey makes me sick because I sometimes feel bitter about being single.  My one shining hope is that things happen in due time and I can't force anything.  Anyways, back to Ewah, there was a streetside jazz performance and they were amazing.  They interacted with the crowd and the vocalist was really good.

That's all for now! Must study for midterms ^^