We had the day off meaning that none of us did anything until like 1 pm, when we all finally left the apartments. We grabbed lunch at a new place and it was super delicious. I ordered 콩나물국밥 (bean sprout soup with rice) and it was delicious. The only problem was that there were tiny shrimp in the soup, but I tried to pick them all out. After that we went back to the apartments to get our stipends. Then a group decided to get cell phones and we tagged along, but we just chilled in Paris Baguette. That place has just been such a disappointment. Everything looks so delicious, but its taste is meh. We tried to take a picture with this cute little Korean boy, but he was scared of us, so that didn't happen. When we went back to meet our friends, we saw they were in the phone store still, so we decided to go to a fruit store. After crossing the street though, we looked back into the store and they had totally disappeared. Later we found that they had gone to some super sketch phone store where they got really cheap secondhand phones. Anyway, after heading back and chilling in our apartments for an hour we went to the Expo Site. They were having this huge concert with Kpop stars Big Bang and 2NE1, but tickets were only given to dignitaries and pavilion directors, meaning the only people going had no idea who any of those people were. So we met up with some Germans and just kept walking trying to get as close to the stage as possible. The farthest we could get though was by the performers tents and we knew that Kpop superstars wouldn't be in tents in the cold. So after hanging around for about a half hour, we left. On the way to find dinner, we ran into a whole group of Russian sailors who were 17 years old (one was 18). How the heck do you have 17 year olds in your military? And then let them wonder around a foreign country doing whatever? I was just really surprised. My friend spoke Russian so we stopped to talk to them, but they knew like 3 phrases in English (and knew no Korean). They're only here for a week though. Anyway we found a place to eat and we watched the performance on a TV in the restaurant. The kpop performances weren't that great unsurprisingly because they were performing for diplomats, not rabid fans. Anyway, there was also a fireworks show, which was fun, but Americans def do better fireworks shows. They would just do a firework at a time and then as the finale release a bunch at once, but it just was boring for the most part.
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