Kari's first full day in Korea

5:45 pm -- Korea

4:45 am -- USA


Today, after finally falling back to sleep for a couple of hours...me and mom got ready and went down to eat breakfast with the rest of the group. After that i got a chance to use the subway, and hail a taxi around Seoul. Amy, Kelly, Beth and myself took the subway (which took us forever to figure out) to Itaewon to get a feel where everything was. We walked up and down the streets a couple blocks looking for the Mcdonalds, Hard Rock Cafe, exchange booths etc.


After we went to Itaewon, we took a taxi to Insadong. Every sunday the streets of Insadong are blocked off and there are hundreds of different sellers, trying to sell their different kinds of goods. The streets were packed full of people...and after we had been walking for a while, we decided to stop at a starbucks and sit in the second level lounge to people watch for a bit.











Then took a taxi back to MyongDong and walked around for a bit and went back to our rooms to report back our findings. Me and mom started to get a little hungry so we headed down to MyongDong to find something to eat. And we were also on a mission to find wrapping paper for the gifts we needed to wrap. After we had been looking for quite a while, we decided to ask a guy if he knew where we could go. And i wish that i would have taked a picture of him...he was so funny, because he was so proud of himself for speaking english, and when he was done telling us how to get there, he wanted to give us high fives because that's the American thing to do! :)

Now me and mom are back in the hotel room, very tired...so we're just going to wrap some gifts and hit the sack! Good night!

--Kari