LARA IN KOREA!: AUTUMN IN TOWN !

Almost one month in Seoul and autumn has arrived... my favorite season. I'm wandering around SNU Campus, watching the trees changing their colors. Now they are yellow, propably next week some of them will turn red and after that their leafs will start whirling down. When it will rain softly, people will put on their rainboots and jackets... A brisky wind blowing through our hair, while we'll be running with umbrellas trying to find a nice place to drink a cup of coffee.. How can I not love autumn?!

I went to Daejun with KGSP. We went by bus down South for about 3 hours... including 30 mins of traffic jam. Our two days stay was nice, because it was relaxed and nice to be out of Seoul for some days. We saw many traditional Korean performances and there was a talentshow too (a lot of students from other univerities had signed up to perform!) The next day we went to the museum and did a workshop (= making something really kitchy).

We've been on the rooftop of our building. The view is even more amazing than from my window! A view of 365 degrees, and we can see a part downtown Seoul!

My little botanic garden has a new member: a plant with red roses or a redrosesplant.

I'm getting used to eating more spicy things.

I've almost finished my Aloe Vera juice, it took me some time as it is SO sweet and jellyish. Actually, I juice it to sejuice my guests when they come to visit my room! :)

Next week I'm going to have a test on Friday, to test my Korean listening, writing and talking skills of course. Koreans would probably say: "Fighting!!!" while they simultaneously do the typical *handmove* or they would say 공부하곘어요! Kongbuhakessoyo! I will study! Ofte 'k zal mijn best doen, zoals we dat zeggen in het Nederlands! :)

Yesterday I met my Korean buddy, Jaeran... She's really cute and sweet. I can feel that we will become good friends. She has sent me a message that she feels that we are on the same level and wants to see me earlier again this week. B)

I like my Korean neigbour boys in room 813. I'll call them X and Y, because their names are still hard to remember! ;) And you probably don't know them anyhow. If you do so; please tell me, so we can find a way to remember their names! X is funny. We've been watching some TV in our common kitchen and he tried my Belgian pralines. Y has helped Wang Wei and me with our 'funny role play' / dialogue. We have to write a Korean dialogue every week, each time with a different classmate and we have to show this in class. As you can guess... this is not one of my favorite things. Y also helped to find a way to play movies directly from my USB! Now I can finally watch Colin Pharell in Brugge / In Bruges. A Brittish guy from school told me it's a good movie and that he really liked Brugge-in-the-movie. Well I'll let you know! (I told him Brugge is just the town where old people live! :D and that some tourists think it's an amusement park because they are asking for the closingtime!)

I'm getting closer with my classmates, we all are! I like going to school every morning and also enjoy the break times so we can talk freely about not really important things. Like when and what kind of mobile phone we're going to buy... We finally got our ARC's! :)

I'm having my first Korean cold. My guilty roommate Anna in Daejun introduced me to him! Anyhow, he will go away soon, we are not friends. He can make plenty of other friends on campus! :)

Next week there is a holiday again! Jeej.

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