Misia

This Japanese singer got my attention when I was watching the Japanese drama Jin and heard the ending song Aitakute ima. The song was so good I had to figure out who sung it. Misia, I figured out sang the song and has a new album out that I would suggest everyone listen to just because this woman has an INCREDIBLE voice!! I never really liked Japanese singers that much besides people like Perfume and Arashi (only Arashi because my sister likes them) so when I heard Misia I thought she was Korean at first LOL!! If you look at my ipod, all I have on there is Korean singers so I was surprised that I actually liked a Japanese singer for a change!



"Just Ballade" Album track:
1)少しずつ大切に
2)逢いたくていま
3)Work it out
4)地平線の向こう側へ
5)Call me Love me (I love this one!)
6)So Beautiful
7)唇と唇
8)バオバヴの木の下で
9)約束の翼
10)僕のきもち
11)Yes Forever
12)星のように
13)銀河
14)いつまでも

Dog cafe and Sachoom

Me and my onni and her friend went to a dog cafe in Seoul. Seeing all those dogs made me miss my own little dog momiji!! But all the dogs were really cute and there was this one little dog that I couldn't stop holding it was like a little baby and it had on a little bow tie it was just so cute I couldn't get enough of her!!

This dogs fur was sooo soft I couldn't stop feeling her and she's even looking like she's winking when I took her picture!! LOL

This is the little dog I was talking about!! Isn't she soo cute! I just scooped her up and she started licking me ^^

After playing around she was so tired she was falling asleep on my lap!!

My onni and her friend, this dog was so big but his fur was so soft LOL

This dog was so skinny but his spots were really cute

Later that day me and my onni went to this musical called Sachoom in Insadong. Sachoom stood for the Korean "If your in love then dance". This musical was soooooooo good! I really enjoyed this and suggests to anyone who visits South Korea to go see these people because they are awesome!! I was laughing from start to finish and talked about it all the time next day. Me and my onni even got the songs they sung stuck in out heads and we were walking down the street singing them LOL

Me at the beginning of the performance! Onni had got us front row seats!!

Some of the performers

This photo is actually funny because all through out the performance my onni was like "OMG he (the person in the picture) is so cool, I think I'm in love!" and after we took this picture my onni said to him "oh oppa you were so cool!" The next day my onni tells me that she went and checked that person's cyworld and saw that everyone was calling him "onni" and she said "OMG, that guy was actually a girl LOL I can't believe it, my love is crushed" LOL I couldn't stop laughing at my onni!!! That was so funny, she was devastated because she figured out that guy was a girl LOL Even though at the performance she did look kind if like a guy......but it was still funnyLOL

Korean anime

Let me first start off by saying that I had noooo idea that Korea had these type of anime convention things LOL! and then my onni goes on to say that this convention goes on every month LOL! Yeah, me and my onni went to this Seoul comic/anime convention one day and I was so surprised at how many people were there. Anime is a truly universal thing LOL. Walking around everyone was dressed up in their cosplay and it was...sooo cute! In America people do these sort of things too but it's kind of scary when you go to conventions like Otakon and see these people because most of them look like they need to be out having jobs or something LOL! But these were just kids dressed up and they all looked so cute! I had fun going to this convention and I brought a lot of cute things (if you couldn't tell I'm addicted to cute stuff)



Yes, I took a picture with the sailor scouts LOL!! These girls are soo cute I couldn't resist!



I have no idea what this anime is...I think he's supose to be dressed up as a raidish (daikon in Japanese....)



OMG when I saw these girls I was like "OMG SNSD!!! Onni I have to take a picture!" They were really nice and was actually surprised when I talked to them in Korean LOL! There English was really good too! This is my favorite picture!! These girls are so cute LOL!! (I'm missing two of the group members though -_-;)


More pictures at the convention

I was so inspired by that convention I actually went home and made my own anime picture of Hyemi onni's family LOL!!! I remember when I was teaching Pyun Goon French, he couldn't say Bien for anything. He would always say, "bi-yeong" and it was so funny because my onni who had never studied french before could say it and he couldn't LOL!! We would always have to practice that and one time Pyun goon got so frustrated he actually pinched his nose and said it trying to get the nasel sound to come out LOL I guess he thought it would help cause that's what one of his friends said LOL!! but now he can produce nasel sounds so he doesn't say bi-yeong!

Teaching French

So, for the second week I was in Korea I tutored my onni's brother in French. Even though I only studied French for four in high school, I tried to teach him all I knew LOL. He was a good student though and I was glad to help! He wanted to pass this DILF National French Proficiency test and...I think he's already taken it. I talked to my friend on facebook the other day and she said he passed so that's good. OMG Onni's brother is so funny though, he acts like a little spoiled kid around onni LOL! I was amazed at how much onni does for him. He only needs to say "oh noona I'm hungry" and we go out to eat! "oh, noona I need man won" and she gives it to him! It's crazy! I mean if my sisters ask me for that stuff I would be like you better feed yourself the best way you know how and get a job LOL! He's lucky to have onni as a sister because if he was my brother, it be a whole different story LOL. When I asked onni why she was like that with him she said, "it's just Korean culture" I was so shocked because when he were buying ice cream, onni paid for his and he didn't even say thanks sis or anything like that, he just ate it! I mean, if my sister's brought something for me, even food, since it's so rare that they would even do that I would show thanks you know, like oh thanks sis but not with my friend and her brother! LOL I remember one time that pyun goon (that's my onni's brother's name) got his hair cut and he didn't like the cut and said "I man's life is hair gel" LOL! So crazy LOL. Before I even met him though when I was living in Ulsan, Hyemi's dad told me that pyun goon was like the Korean terminator LOL I was like "What?!" but then again Hyemi's dad is so funny I think he'll say anything. But Hyemi did say that when her and her brother were home one day, her brother was like "noona, do I look like Jae Beom" LOL Hyemi's family is so fun!


Onni and Pyun Goon when we went to Norae bang instead of having French class LOL! and afterwards we played Go stop LOL!!


Yeah, I can't believe I tutored someone in French, I don't even think my french is that good LOL

Petit France

So me and my friend Hyemi went to Petite France which is basically a place of worship for Little Prince fanatics (like me). It's also the filming place of the Korean drama Beethoven Virus which I absolutely ADORE!! I was sooo happy to see that place! It was like two of my favorite things rolled up into one place! Who wouldn't like the little prince plus take pictures of the scenes where Beethoven Virus was shoot! To get to this place through was so long! The bus ride was cool and scenery going there was AMAZING but scenery anyway in Korea I think is pretty cool LOL! Anyway, here are some pictures from the trip:


The sun was so bright that day! I could barely open my eyes LOL!

Yes, people you are seeing this correctly! I'm sitting at the conductor Kang Gun Woo's desk LOL! OMG I felt like I should be in that drama LOL!

I'm standing in front of the bus that took us to Petite France and that's my onni with le roi from the Little Prince.

Cute things

When I was in Korea, one of the things I did was make these planner like type things. It was really fun...but the directions were in Korean so my onni had to help me a little LOL!! (I literally just copied everything she did...sometimes I really feel that my friend is like my big sister!) But yeah that was the first time I ever did that before and it was a lot of fun especially since I got to hang out with one of my onni's friends from high school. She didn't really talk that much to me but then again I didn't really talk that much to her either...I think it was because of the language barrier (If only I knew more Korean!!!)

I never thought I could actually make these things,I would always buy them from the store! When my friend told her mom what we did that day she was like "What! Are you three or something!" I laughed when my friend told me because I thought it was fun! I guess it's something you do when your young in Korea but I can see myself making those things everyday...it helps release stress and there soooo cute!!

This is the finished product of my hard work! (Mine is the one on the right in the first picture and the bottom one on the second picture) My onni's looked so much better than mine! Mine looked like a kindergarten had made it! LOL

なにがあっても一生一緒＾＾

Hey! I haven't written a post in so long, I though it was time to write one! Korea was GREAT!! Sorry I only wrote one post on it! Going to Korea was one of the best experiences in my life and I want to go back again sometime (maybe during my study broad time in Japan since it's so close!) But yeah, I can't believe it's over! I owe soo much to my ONNI for making that trip sooo great 언 니정 말고마워!!! Here's some of the pictures I took on my trip:

This is taken from the plane...I think we were flying over Russia when took it! It was really cold on the plane and my feet were freezing!

This was taken in Ulsan when I went with my friend's family to a fish market and to the Ulsan National Park...LOL the lady behind me said "let her take a picture holding a fish!" LOL

When I was in Ulsan Park my friend's mom took a picture with one of the lady's that go down and get sea shells from the ocean...I forget the name for her in Korean...

This is when my friend and I went to this temple or something in Ulsan...I forget the name (we went here maybe a day after I arrived in Korea and the jet lag was catching up with me so I don't really remember much from that week LOL)