Thursday, May 24th
I got lunch with two friends at a Chinese restaurant and then we went to the downtown shopping center. We wanted to go to the beach, but it was cloudy and so the beach got put aside for another day. On a side note, I had been super super excited to go to the beach since it is supposed to be a black sand beach. However, a friend who has already gone told me at most the sand was just a darker shade of brown. Disappointing. Hopefully it'll still be a good beach though. Anyway we killed two hours and then got some gelato, which was way cheaper than it was at the Italian Pavilion. Like 5 gigantic scoops was about 13,000 or 14,000 won. I will be heading back there. To clarify I knew there was gelato in Korea, but I didn't realize there was a Caffe Ti Amo nearby until I saw it there and about died from happiness.

My friends got off work so we went to go see Sheketak. I wanted to see the performance again and I wanted everyone else to see it since I thought they would like it.

After that, the people who had gotten off work were starving so we went and got dinner, but I didn't eat since I was still stuffed from eating all afternoon. After that we finally went to a 노래방 (karaoke room), where the four of us sang our (somewhat tone-deaf) hearts out. It was a lot of fun. We sang for like 2 hours and my voice was so dead by the end of it, but it totally didn't matter. Afterwards, we went back to Sarah's apartment and watched an episode of Once Upon a Time because Erin is obsessed with the show. We then started an episode of 보스를 지켜라 (Protect the Boss) in exchange in order to introduce her to Korean dramas. I left at the start of that though in order to meet Eric and Bjorn, who were planning on going to a party hosted by Australia. But while the Eric and I were waiting for Bjorn to get ready, we realized we were both starving. So instead we went out to get dinner and since all the indoor restaurants were closed by this point, we ate at a restaurant stall of sorts. The food was super spicy because as we'd discovered recently, Koreans had been watering down the spiciness simply because we're foreigners. We've been having to ask restaurants to make it spicy so they don't do that. But these ladies didn't even care. They just gave us spicy food. Mine was fine, but my friend's dish was even spicier than mine and he looked uncomfortable trying to eat it. We got 팟빙수 (pat bing su, red bean shaved ice) as dessert though to help cleanse our palates from the spiciness.