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The day had finally come.
It seemed so surreal that right after all off my exams ended, it was time to leave. The week went by a bit like a blur. Monday was a panic day after my first exam trying to get a visa to Japan. Tuesday was a long long study day. Wednesday was a little scuffle with the Jap embassy LOLOL, they basically quetioned why my hostel booking was different than my flight date and who’s ‘Alvin Darmawan’, and i had to go on a long explanation about how my bro is in Japan and he’s checking in first to the hostel without me. Lol. It took a while but they believed me eventually, thankfully. Thursday I got pretty lazy to study for my final exam lollool, and just went ahead to collect my visa at the embassy. We agreed earlier on to eat together at this famouz Samgyetang place near Gyeongbokgung, so I was waiting around for them and found this cosy place to chill~
I’m typing all of these while sitting at a Starbucks in Japan, and I’m already missing Korea’s cafes. Seriously. I’ve taken for granted how widely available cafes are in Korea and in Japan, Starbucks is the only cafe i can really count on for good coffee and wifi. All the other cafes serve dubious coffee that don’t taste very good somehow (idk how you screw up a latte though), and never have wifi haha.
So anyway, met the rest for dinner at the famous Samgyetang place that I will write about in another post, and then went back to (try to) study. I didn’t end up studying and mye xam on Friday was kinda scerwed up lol…..
Anyways, after exam on Friday I met Zenn to try to chek out this goshiwon that I found online. It was really really cheap (11k per night, despite of the room type) so I was told them i would go down to take a look. When I did find the goshiwon though they told me a few minutes ago someone came in and took the room I had wanted, the orom with the shower. They only had one more room left and that room had no bathroom. I saw the room and it was such a hamster hole OTL, but for the size I thought it’s decent enough. The owner then told me someone’s moving out on the 29th so if i transfer a deposit before then, I could get the room with ensuite bathroom from 1st July onwards. I was happy to hear that and told her I’ll get back to her. I transferred as soon as I got home.
But they cancelled on me a few days later when i went Japan because the tenant decided to extend her stay and i was so angry but anyway whatever, i’ve ranted about that on another post…
So then anyways. On Friday night, i found myself looking at my luggages and deciding how to pack my things in. I couldn’t bring myself to pack and ended up going on Twitter to rant a bit about Taeyeon LOL and then laid down on my bed in the darkness feeling very sad i was never going to sleep in this place again. The rest were outside drinking at this point but I felt the need to stay indoors to appreciate the last of my dorm. I can still drink with the rest in Singapore.
Jasmine ended up inviting me over for some fried chicken, to which I agreed. Had a great time eating chicken and chatting with her and XC :’)
And the next morning when i woke up it was panic LOL. I barely had time to be sentimental and emotional the moment I woke up ._. After a last breakfast at the cafeteria, i basically panicked cuz i had only 2 hours to pack AND clean my room and i was barely done with the first task. Ended up running around and only managed to squash everything in and threw away all the precious things like the cup i brush my teeth with and my cute pink scissors. Anyway we evacuated the room just nice before 12pm and it looked like this 😦
Almost exactly like when we walked in.
The supervisor came in and checked everything and cleared us. As planned, I dragged my luggage and blanket down to Jas&XC’s room and XC was so nice about me leaving all my rubbish in her room while I go Japan :’) My original after-plan was to hang out at a cafe and then check into the jjimjilbang before going to the airport the next day, but plans changed and I ended up joining Jas and Lineatte for lunch with their buddy.
I predict that that would be my last Homilbat patbingsoo. I don’t want to be negative about it but i still think that it might happen.. 😦 oh wells at least we bought the coffee patbingsoo and it turned out good! Yoojin never ate there before :O us foreigners have been frequenting Homilbat soooooo often haha.
Chatted until pretty late, around 5pm, before I returned and ended up (again) nua-ing with Jasmine in her room haha. She toyed with the idea of sleeping in her room one last night that night despite having checked out, since XC’s new roomie isn’t going to move in until 2 days later. I was thinking of doing the same but the thought of returning to my old room and seeing it completely empty, no roomie, no belongings nothing, made me change my mind. I don’t want my last memory of my home in Sogang to be such a sad one.
Since Zenn was gonna take a while, i decided to join them for dinner as well. We went to this pretty cool place in Hongdae called Kongbul!
To sum it up, it was something like a fusion food of Bulgogi (beef) + beansprout, hence the name. We ordered the first set because we saw that everyone else had the drink so probably everyone ordered sets haha.
YUMZ
It’s local culture to eat the meal first without any rice, and then use the leftover ingredients to make fried rice~
I had not much time left after that so I rushed back to grab my small luggage and then made my way towards our Jjimjilbang place. It was my first time at a Jjimjilbang so I’ll make a separate post~
So that’s it… thi is the final ‘weekly’ posts that i’ll be making. No more of this already… 😦