~My Parents' Visit to Korea: March 28th-April 1st 2008 ~ Friday Friday early morning, around 5:30am, Fr. Manuel and I drove to Incheon International Airport to meet my parents who had a few days lay-over in Korea on their way to India. Our first stop for the morning was the CMF (Claretian Missionaries) House where they would stay for the majority of their time over the course of their South Korea trip. Then I gave my parents a mini tour of Korea University's...

The used phone I bought in Itaewon (the foreigner district) has been giving me sooo much trouble. Actually, the phone I bought was most probably stolen as the previous owner's numbers, messages, and even pictures were still on it! And when I accidently locked the keypad, the password was the previous owner's personal password as opposed to the general "0000" password. So a last week, I had to go to a really far service center to have my memory clea...

I had to pay my dorm fees this week (around $2,000 for the semester since I'm living in a baller hotel-esque looking single suite!) so I went to withdraw my money from the bank. Since the highest currency note in South Korea is 10,000KRW which equals to about $10, the clerk hands me 2,200,000KRW (see above picture) all in the form of 10,000KRW bills! That's TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO bills. I just laughed out loud as he attempted to hand it to me because ever...

I have only been in Seoul for a little over a week and it already feels like forever, in a GOOD way! I'm actually really worried that my four months here will fly by sooo fast and that I will be extremely sad to leave this place! The first couple days, Kaki (like the great older sister she is, she came with from Tokyo to help me get situated) and I explored the Dongdaemun & Gangnam area. Dongdaemun has a super fun street market with cheap clothes and lots...

First of all, the Jay Chou concert Kaki took me to at the Bodukon (where sumo wrestling matches take place and the prom scene at Hana Yori Dango took place) was amazing!!! Jay is a Mandarin singer from Tawain who is really big in Asia.. sort of like the Mandarin equivalent to Justin Timberlake. Anyways, he has a ton of songs and I didn't think he'd play the ones I actually knew and I especially didn't think he'd sing my favoriteeee song of his "ting mama de...