May 16, 2011 Happy Birthday! Good Bye Teen Years!

It's my birthday!  Woot woot!  What a great way to spend my 20th birthday!  :-)  Breakfast was really interesting.  Usually Koreans have 미역국 brown seaweed soup (mi-yuhk-gook).  However, I'm not a huge fan of it so I wasn't disappointed that I didn't have it for breakfast.  Actually, breakfast was pretty meager lol.  We didn't have a chance to buy groceries and all we had back at the house was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  So that was breakfast haha lol.

We had class and they sang to me in Korean "Happy Birthday".  By then it was time for lunch.  We went to 본죽 Bon-jook, the porridge restaurant again which we were all excited about.  This time I got 쇠고기버섯죽 beef and mushroom porridge (shwe-go-gi-boh-soht).  So good!  "-)  Who would have thought having porridge for your birthday would be a real treat!  After, we went out in our language groups.  This time I was with Kenwood and Michelle.  We went to a shaman's house who gave a fortune to Kenwood.  It was pretty cool.  However,  I was really sleepy again.  I think it's hard to pay attention when they use technical terms that you're not familiar with.

쇠고기버섯죽  :-)

Haha poor Kenwood.  The chick in black has the sam shirt as him.  I guess Kenwood has true Korean sytle because all of the clothes he has, someone else in Korea has it too!  Haha we told him that his shirt looked like a couple's shirt.  :-)

After that we had some free time.  Kenwood, Michelle, and I since we finished our language practice when out shopping around the city.  I found some 소녀시대 Girl's Generation (so-nyeo-shi-dae) socks!  They were really cheap so I got 태연 Taeyeon and 유리 Yuri.  :-)  Hey, why not treat myself?  It's my birthday, you know.  Then I wanted to buy some birthday candles because I love the birthday candles they have here.  They're long, skinny, and so much fun!  I went to a 7-11 and asked if they had any.  The lady gave me 8 and as I was about to pay, she told me there were free!  AWESOME and HOLLA!!!!!  As we were walking, we saw some of the others.  We called out to meet up with them but then all of a sudden, they ran away.  As they were running away, I saw Benjamin holding a blue box.  I had an idea of what that was but I thought I wouldn't ruin their plan.  :-)

When we all got back to the house, they asked me where we should go for dinner.  I wanted to get 삼겹살 sam-kyup-sal which is where you wrap rice and meat in lettuce and then you can add sauces or whatever you want to it.  We went to a store nearby.  It didn't look very clean but we thought we wouldn't be able to find one close again (even though it's Korea, we haven't found a ton of places serving it).  So we went inside and the lady didn't give us a lot of meat and it was pretty expensive.  All of us in the end were still a bit hungry.

Then all of a sudden, Steve was like, "I need a snack.  I'm starving."  Everyone said it was ok but they had this confused look on their faces.  Knowing it's Steve and that he eats a lot, I wasn't surprised but I thought it was weird he was leaving early. Then a couple minutes later, Derek came by with Steve and they brought with them a cake from Paris Baguette and a present! 

We had the cake at the house and it was really rich but delicious!  :-)  It was a chocolate cake :-)  I'm turned 20 today and the cake was so cute with zoo animals that it looked like it was for a 4 year old.  :-)  Funny huh?  The cake was really good.  The present they gave me was a Hello Kitty tupperware pack.  They said, when they saw this they thought of me.  How???  I don't know how but it was cute and so nice of them to get me a present!  :-)

Birthday cake from Paris Baguette!

Isn't this cake darling?  Haha it's still funny to me that I have left the teen years and they chose a cake suitable for a little child.  But who cares?  It's so cute and they were so thoughtful.

My favorite part of the cake:  candles!

You know you want some?  It was that good.

It's a Hello Kitty tupperware set!!  OH MY GOSH!!!

Presents:  Hello Kitty tupperware and 소녀시대 Girl's Generation socks

Darling birthday card

Message from everyone on the study abroad

Lately, we've been watching really funny YouTube videos; particulary Japanese advertisements.  They're so corky, random, and hilarious!  Like take this one below.  When we saw this, we couldn't stop laughing.  If you watch it overand over again, it becomes more funny each time!



Haha each time I watch this, I die of laughter.  It's so random and crazy!

It's been such a great day!  Very relaxed but it turned out to be great.  I'm in Korea; hello!  I love the snacks here.  Especially banana milk!  You're probably thinking, well, we have banana milk back in America.  No, this is different; it's so much better and I don't like flavored milk so this is good stuff.

We love banana milk!