Being a Tour Guide

명동

연세대학교

파파

Bright and early on my 3^rd last full day in Korea, I took the subway to 용산 (Yongsan) Station to pick up my friend from Jeonju who was coming to visit me in Seoul! Full of excitement, I waited at the station, unable to keep my hands still. As she walked into the main area, I really could believe that I was able to see my best friend twice within two weeks.

We went back to the guesthouse to put her things away and went to 홍대 (Hongdae) for breakfast. If you remember my last adventure in 홍대 during the morning, imagine it with even less stores open. 홍대 is a very busy place at night, especially Friday night, but one would think it was a ghost town on a Sunday morning. We found a shop, ate breakfast and left since it was not busy.

Then we went to 연세대학교 (Yonsei University) to look around. It seems like it would be a bit boring, but we were both extremely excited to be there because we both want to study there, her in the hospital as a Chemistry major, and me as foreign language exchange student.

Since my friend had not been to Seoul very many times, I was her official tour guide, which felt a bit weird since I was in her country. I already knew a couple places where we could go, and since there was so much to do in 명동 (Myeongdong), we went there next. We walked around, took sticker photos and did a lot of talking to each other.

Of course, knowing my best friend, we had to go back to the guesthouse just because her favourite singing competition was on TV that night. I didn't mind because it's also one of my favourite shows, and coincidentally, she was the one who introduced me to the show!

Later, we went back to 홍대 to enjoy some of the street music and look around. There were a couple performers that we okay, but there was one guy who was amazing! I almost felt bad for the other because everyone was around one person and no one was listening to them. We ate supper in 홍대 as well and then went to watch a movie. The movie, called 파파 (Papa), was awesome because it was half English, half Korean, so I could understand everything. It was weird because we were the only people in the whole theatre, but it was a lot of fun to be the only ones there.