We ended school around the last week of January, and for a good chunk of it, my friends and I planned a trip to South Korea! All three of us really like Korean pop culture, and can't go when we're in our home countries because it's too expensive to fly there. So, we took advantage of being close, and went for a week to Seoul! This was only my second time traveling somewhere (Japan being the first), so I definitely had some traveling nerves, but once we got there, everything was fine. It was interesting because the whole time we were there, we didn't speak Japanese at all. We only spoke English, and it was actually extremely difficult because most of the cashiers/taxi drivers/workers only spoke Korean. We had to rely quite heavily on our friends' small knowledge of the language to help us survive.
One of the things that Japan has are dog cafe's, and we were actually able to find one in Seoul as well. This was one of the most fun things we did the whole trip, because we got to see such variety of dogs again. In Japan, there seems to be a liking for small to medium sized, tan dogs who are tamed quite well. I've only heard a dog bark here twice in my 4 month stay here. But, in the dog cafe in Seoul, there were about 15 different kinds of dogs ranging from the size of my hand, to the size of a full-sized man. There was no admission fee, but you would buy an 8,000W drink (so basically that was your admission fee), and got to stay there as long as you wanted. After that, we went to a Mustoy cafe and got to create our very own customized ceramic doll (you draw on it with markers) to make any person or character you'd like. It was really fun. After returning home, two weeks later was my boyfriend's marathon in Soja! There were a lot of people there that ran the half & full marathon, and seeing the effort these runners put into their work definitely made me want to run too (though some looked very tired, understandable). After a 1hr 40 minute finish, we drove back in the slow traffic to an Okonomiyaki restaurant and refilled our energy. It was really cool to see something like this in Japan, as we missed the Okayama marathon early Fall of last year. I think I'd like to run a half marathon someday.. (someday!).
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