Day 43 - Ewha Women's University and Study Abroad Farewell Party

I slept in today because I had no class! When I got up, I went with my friend Eric and we met one off his Korean friends at a Japanese restaurant in Sinchon for lunch. I got a buckwheat soba noodle dish which was good but so big! I couldn't eat it all, it was too much food! The restaurant was called Miyao (pronounced like meow) and they had cat figures and related things everywhere inside.

The buckwheat soba I got at Miyao. All three square trays have soba noodles in them. The bowl has a kind of soup with ice in it that you are supposed to dip the noodles in. You can add green onions, ginger, or wasabi from the little tray at the top to change the flabor of the soup.

After lunch, Eric's friend left and Eric and I went to the area of Sinchon near Ewha Women's University because he wanted to buy a backpack. We wandered around for a while looking in shops and I got a really delicious smoothie from a street vendor!

After we had walked around the area for a while, we headed back to Yonsei University to get ready for the CIEE Farewell Party. CIEE is the name of the company that I studied abroad with (they act as an intermediate party between my university and the Korean university). The party was at the Mary Gold Hotel in the Hongdae district of Seoul. We had about 30 people (our whole study abroad group) and we had a fancy buffet dinner and spent a lot of time socializing at the hotel. The party ended at about 9:00 at night and we all then went our various ways.

A video of some street performers tap dancing! It was actually really cool!

I went with some of my friends to the artsy, college kid part of Hongdae and we hung out there for the rest of the night and watched street performers at the Hongik University Children's Park. It was a fun night!