Can you believe it?? Two posts in a week?! Maybe it will be a trend??? Lol, keep crossing your fingers on that one. ^.~ I have a little extra time before I have to head to school, so I thought I would share a little from my last night's adventures...
So, my friend, Erin, who teaches in Sang-mo dong (in Gumi, too) was going to try and come out to Indong again. As we had somewhat figured out the bus schedule/system (thanks to some help from both our co-teachers (CTs)), she made it here! We were on a hunt to get her a cell phone. A lot of people have been having a hard time getting one yet since we don't have our actual Alien Registration Cards (ARCs) yet. We have all applied for them now, but it will take some time to process...until then, most cell phone stores (from what I have heard) will not issue cell phones. I, for one, found this strange since so many of us got pre-paid phones in Seoul (some of my friends only staying for 5 weeks). It might have been because it was Seoul and they have more "global" stores/get it a lot more? Either way, I was DETERMINED to get her a phone, no matter what KIND (even if it was just a pre-paid one and not a smart phone), by the end of the evening. I was armed with my minimal Korean and my cell phone dad's number in case we needed reinforcement lol.
First store I pick out, I walk in and start attempting my Korean, and the next thing you know, we walk out of the store with some new friends (teehee, I'll be back for my iphone 5 from him in October! Weeeeee!!!! yay!!!!) AND a new smart phone for her! SUCCESS!!!
And theeeeeeeen~~~~~
By this point, it's after 7pm, and I didn't want her to have to make the trip back to Sang-mo without eating, so we decide to walk around downtown Indong in search for a good restaurant. We both decide we want noodles (yay!!! I've been DYING to have mul naeng myeon~~cold noodles~~since the last time I had it in Seoul. Seriously, I thought Bi bim bap was my favorite food (and I told all my students this too), but now I am reminded that there is NO WAY naeng myeon can be second place. Bi bim bap doesn't hold a CHANCE against naeng myeon~~it's just sooooooo good! My FAVORITE!). Sooooo....I figure~ I don't really know any restaurants around here, so what better way to find the best place than ask a local, so I walk up to some guy in the street and ask for where the best naeng myeon is, and he proceeds to walk us around to find one. Find out he works for LG (Gumi is the city of factories~~Samsung, LG, and some others are all here...just to let ya know since I haven't made the post about my city yet), and he has only been here for 5 months, so he is not too sure of the best place, but he says he is determined to help us, and since Gumi downtown is not too big, it is certain he can find a good one. Woo hoo! Another new friend. ^^ And he DOES find us one and we are SOOOOO happy! And the food was ABSOLUTELY delicious! I'm pretty sure I could have been drooling all over myself at this point. haha
And you know, I really don't think I know a stranger. .... because there I go again~~ Start talking to the store owners there and make some new friends. They knew a little English, so pairing that with our basic Korean, we had a simply wonderful evening. Great food (they even gave us some yummy free mandu and then my yummy favorite Maxim Mocha Gold coffee to end it off), great conversation, and great new friends. It was so cute, the owner even offered to make us some hamburgers hahaha I didn't get why, but it was cute nonetheless (Oh, I should preface this by saying this is naeng myeon shop, and they literally only serve 3 dishes~~mul naeng myeon, bi bim naeng myeon, and the mandu...so I didn't even understand what he was saying when he said he could make hamburgers lol). my new FAVORITE restaurant in Indong...will be back to visit again, for sure. ^^ (I will have to add pictures for sure sometime~~next time I'll take some. ^^)
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