Oktoberfest in Seoul

Yesterday was an amazing day! I had an orientation with some other American teachers from my company and met some girls in the same kind of schools as me, even though they all live outside of Seoul. We went to pizza, a tea bar, and then to a big Oktoberfest event at the Hilton. It was sooo hilarious to be surrounded by germans as well as koreans wearing traditional german clothes. They had lots of german foods sitting right next to the dishes of kimchi. I tried out for the arm wrestling contest but I got beat by a korean lady, I swear she cheated!! Later I met some people that appeared to be Korean, but then they were so polite when they were speaking english, so I knew they couldn't be Korean :). When I asked them where they were from they said they were living in the U.S. but born and raised in Argentina! I finally got to speak spanish! They sound just like my teacher Giovanna but look Korean. They told me I sound like a Mexican! hehe...I think I'm gonna go take tango lessons at their restaurant "Buenos Aires". Things have been really hard, but I'm starting to see all of the things that I expected from this city! 

New obsession: Green Tea Latte

Taco Bell in Seoul.

I was sooo close to adopting this cat!! He is leash trained and I met him on the street! I called my landlord and they said I couldn't have a cat!!!!! broke my heart.

This is the general style of the city.

The tea bar with our new friend Sunny!

Only in Seoul. German beer and Korean tea!

Salsa dancing in Korea

Last night a few of my coworkers and I went to Itaewan, which is an area of the city full of foreigners. Walking down the street I heard lots of languages and saw lots of different people, about 50 percent korean, 50 percent foreigner. We went to a salsa club called "Caliente" (it would be called that) and it was so funny to dance with Koreans to all of my favorite songs from Oaxaca. Out the window of the club was a view of the city. I also danced with a guy from Clatskanie, Oregon, which is literally 30 minutes from my house.. very random. Small world. I also heard a lot of puertoriquenos trying to hit on korean women in spanish being like, "Que pasaaaa?" It didn't work.

Later I found this hot dog stand which as you notice, on the bottom advertises tacos. Whatever I ate was definitely not a taco, but whatever I guess its the best they have.

Here's a picture of a dance club we went to. The DJ's in Korea are awesome! I took a taxi home because these people can stay out all night unlike me! Old lady! During the 20 minute ride, The taxi driver gave me a korean grammar lesson. He was hilarious and said his name was Oh-handsome and then laughed really hard! ahahahh! 

Oslo, day 2

Today Anthony and I went "hiking".. or walking through the forrest. I felt like a viking.

There were wild blueberries!! mmm

Okay I was so happy. My grandma is finnish and she used to make this scandinavian rice all the time. We made it! Soo good.

We met up with Martin, a friend from PLU and his American girlfriend. People who asked us all where we were from were a little confused. Fun times.