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♥Saturday, June 09, 2007

here's the long awaited korea post!
but as usual, it'll span over a few posts;
i hate it whenever i blog about trips;
because i upload practically every picture i have!
=.=

day 1: at the airport
hmm it was rather exciting;
because its the first time im going overseas on my own
+ im going with my friends (:

07v14 at the airport!

we flew by korean airlines
and took the 11.25pm flight
i daresay we made lots of noise! X)
i settled down to sleep straight away

but can you believe it?
they woke me up at 3am for breakfast
bloody 3am-
so in the end, my anticipated 5 hours of sleep=2 hours of sleep
RAH

day 2: city tour + LG
we had a city tour;
but the most exciting place was the
dongdaemun palace;
its the palace where goong was filmed!
ha amanda went crazy over there
about her char bee hoon X)

yiwen & eduardo; attempting a jump shot

me, siling, kenneth & desiree

it was rather cool;
because i recognised quite a few places
from goong in the palace ^^
and we camwhored like mad there;
it was super duper fun! (:

at the statue of some emperor i think >.<

oh this is our favourite photo; watch my hand + amanda!

with the guards!

LG was really cool;

they had all these futuristic stuff-
one of it was to predict what your baby looks like!
miss toh forced me & thaiyong to go up
RAH;
it was super embarassing can >.<

at LG; yiwen, me, amanda, kwanwei & christopher

a brief stop at kranji war memorial; sulin, me, amanda& siling

yay then the first night with GERM!

my lovely lovely roomate ^^
we really talked the whole night-
im so glad she's my roommate!
i would have seriously totally died without her
i love germ!

day 3: visit to KMLA
we visited this stream
right smack in the middle of the business district;
its part of innovation
and its supposed to rejuvenate and stuff
we camwhored there!

at the stream; amanda, yiwen, me, eduardo

me, desiree, siling

the visit to the prestigious academy, KMLA
its for future leaders of korea;
and every single one of them either go to seoul national university
or overseas university
amazing huh;

and their entry procedure is the same as ours!
application form, admission test & interview
oh fun fact: they dont have to pay school fees there!

we split into groups according to classes
and we had a personal tour around the school;

this is just their field!

the school is superbly huge
and the environment is really great;
my student tour guide speaks english really fluently
she studied abroad for two years;
its kinda embarassing actually
they're koreans,
but their english is better than ours!

us with our student tour guides; mine is the only other girl there ^^

in the bus; in order of hands- mine, kwanwei & kundan- there's a funny story behind it

k-night SUCKED
totally sucked
im just glad that we got through it alive.
really.

a funny picture to end off; mrs jaya & miss sandhya in their aprons!

day 4: National Pyong Chang Youth Centre
another fun day!
we started off with samulnori lessons,
korean traditional music-
the drum is damn cool
and we had lots of fun playing it!

with tan yi wen on the bus

me, vanesssa & amanda with the traditional drum

i loved the iron painting class.
you know why?
*grins*
look at the top two blocks

that reads:
Lee Joon Ki- I love you!
heh! the teacher helped me write that;
he added in the "i love you" on his own!
and he helped me write my name ^^
he's super duper nice!

we had a i think close to two hour lunch break;
me, amanda, kwan wei, kundan & christopher
went around the whole place camwhoring ^^