The Final Days of May

Tuesday, May 29th


Morning shift again. After that I went out shopping in the downtown area with Bjorn and Yvonne. Bjorn was the one who instigated the shopping extravaganza, but I don't think he actually bought anything. Even though we were mainly going into men's clothing stores, Yvonne actually bought a men's shirt to wear as a dress, which I think kind of confused the store clerks. 


After shopping, we got gelato because I insisted. Second time in like a week. Oh well. It's delicious. 


After getting back to our apartment, we were going to head out to a party taking place at the beach, but other people wanted to go too so we ended up waiting an hour and half for them to get off shift and meet us. Once they found out though that we would have to take a taxi to get to the beach since all the buses had stopped running, they decided not to come though. I got kind of annoyed since we'd delayed going just to wait for them and then all six of them decided they didn't want to go anymore. But I quickly got over it because the party was a lot of fun. I feel bad though because I have no idea who has to clean the beach.


Wednesday, May 30th
I spent the day watching TV in the living room and laying in bed doing homework. I didn't feel sick or anything, but it was my day off and I just wanted a day to relax and not necessarily recover from all the craziness of being here, but just take a step back. Time here seems so short and so long at the same time. Like each day seems like it goes on for eternity (in a good way), but at the same time I feel like I've been here for months and months, not just one month. So I got my homework done for this week, but besides that, did very little. In the evening, I went over to my friend's apartment for a continuation of the Once Upon a Time marathon we've been having. We also ordered in Chinese food and just hung out all evening. That night I went over to my Thai friends' apartment for a party. It was someone's birthday party, but I didn't actually know that person, but it didn't really matter.


Thursday, May 31st
Late morning I headed downtown with Bjorn, Mike, and Asger to grab lunch and go shopping. We went to Daiso first, which is like a Korean dollar store. It has some pretty nice stuff though. After that we went to Super Mario again because Bjorn is addicted to that store and I ended up buying a shirt from there even though it's a men's store. That makes at least American female #2 that has bought clothes from there. The store clerks must be really amused or confused. After that we headed to get lunch before everyone else started their afternoon shifts. Most of the places were traditional Korean places in that the food was like 25,000 won because it was meant to be shared in a group. That's totally fine, but it makes it impossible really to accommodate my vegetarianism because there are no large vegetarian options since they just couldn't sell and no one besides me wants to obviously eat vegetarian. So we ended up finding a 분식 place which doesn't sell fast food per se, but food that can be prepared really quickly. After that we all got gelato because I really wanted gelato. The worker there has started to give me a discount every time I come now because I come so often, which is awesome, but I think a sad commentary on how often I frequent that place. Anyway, we headed back to Expo so they could do their shifts and I went and met up with Brittany, who also wanted to go downtown in order to buy some book for her friend. So I went downtown for a second time. Then since we had an hour to kill, we went to get gelato again. My (over)consumption of gelato is fast becoming a problem...Oh well. After that we went back to Expo Town to meet Josh and Oil for dinner. Oil really wanted to go get dinner at some place which happened to be located downtown, so I went downtown for a third time in like seven hours. After that I was planning on going to another party, but it didn't even start till 11:30 pm and I was lame and just decided to go to sleep instead since I was so exhausted.