My First Mini Haul

Yay my first haul since I got to Seoul. I was walking around and I noticed there were soooo many Etude House stores. I thought I was in heaven!! I first heard about Etude House from the Muse when she wrote about the Peach Pact and I finally got to try it out myself! I tested the Pore Erasing Peach Base in pink and the Peach Skin Pact, I didn't buy it yet, but on my hand, the color just blends in so nicely! I'm surprised how small they are though, so I'm slight disappointed. I also saw the newsletter in Etude House that featured the Muse so I quickly grabbed one. I'm getting paid on the 25th and I think I'm gonna go ape shit when I walk into another Etude House.
Another makeup/skincare store that Seoul has is called Olive Young. It's very similar to Sasa in Hong Kong, so it has skincare, makeup, hair items and other various toiletries. They sell all sorts of Laneige products and Cathy Cat, which I saw on Lotus Palace's blog.
Here's a picture of my first haul. I got an Etude mirror and nailpolish remover. The saleslady then loaded my bag with some freebies! I got a sample the Speedy Total Mineral Base, which is a 3 in 1 SPF, makeup base and foundation, but it isn't called BB cream. I tried this on my hand in the store and it also blends very well to my skin. Another sample I got was the Magic Enzyme Pack Peeling mask, a box of sponges and Natual Powder Essence Foam facewash.
At Olive Young they had a Canmake display so I purchased the Eyelash Essence which is supposed to help me strengthen my lashes.

Here are some random pictures from the Jongno area. There are too many pictures and I'm too tired to resize them all, so enjoy!

Here is me adding to the graftti on the wall. It's strange that if you find a random wall somewhere, there's usually grafitti on it from other people. I guess vandalism is ok?? lol

This cookie thing is actually caramelized sugar. At this street store a lady was melting sugar over a small flame, then poured it on a pan and pressed it flat with a press. So cool! It was super sweet and tasted like the top of creme brulee, it's also very light and crispy.

Moved Out and Teaching.

Wow it's been such a hectic week. Last Saturday, I moved out of the Hyundai Learning Facility to an area called Dongdaemun in Seoul. And it is ghettooooo! So I'll try to make this short. I'm supposed to be housed with Tim, but our school district head office screwed it up. Both of our schools were supposed to find us each a place to live, but we requested couple housing. So, our school district told my school that they didn't need to worry about the housing and Tim's school will find the couple housing. But they never told Tim's school to find the couple housing, and they only found a single dorm. So now I live in a box, with a single bed, wardrobe, drawer with desk and a shelf. For appliances, we have the washer, single stove top and a mini fridge. Well our school is supposed to provide us with a budget to buy things. For my school, I had an option of moving out and takin $700CAD to buy household stuff, or if I choose to stay in the box with Tim, I will get $500CAD a month because of the error in our housing. Of course I'm going to stay in the box and take the $500CAD. Tim's school however, told him that he doesn't have a budget to buy household items, when he's actually supposed to get one. So now we gotta push his school and bug the shit out of them to give him his budget since I don't have one.
So now that I've moved out, I have started teaching at Wonmook Middle School. I'm teaching grade 7 and 9 monkeys and it's tough. Either they listen and not participate, or they're very noisy and don't listen. I teach 21 different classes a week and this whole week was my intro, which meant I repeated myself 21 times this week. I've also never had to talk so slowly in my life. But I'm sure I'll get used to it. I thought it was going to be nerve racking to have 35 pairs of eyes staring at me, but half of them aren't listening anyway so it's like I'm talking to myself.
Whoa, I have alot of reading to catch up on, I've been deprived of sleep so I haven't read blogs for a week.

Trapped in a Compound

Well it's not really a compound, it's actually the Hyundai Learning Facility. All the teachers that have been flown in to teach including me, are staying at this facility for orientation and some teaching techniques. We're not allowed to leave the premises because we are being paid to focus strictly on teaching, which kinda sucks because I haven't seen any of Seoul yet.
Anyway, it's not so bad here, aside from the fact that I have 2 room mates in a really small dorm. We're provided 3 buffet style meals that is only served during certain times, an exercise room, free WIFI, computer lounge, sauna, field made with grassy carpet that has a bball, soccer and volleyball net, laundry and a games room with a jitz table, tetris, billards and ping pong. Not bad at all haha. But I think I'm going crazy since we can't leave the facility and I haven't gotten a chance to shop!! I miss my makeup, there's no point in using it here since I'm waking up to go to a lecture hall everyday anyway.
Good thing I'm moving out tomorrow, then I should be living in a apartment with Mr. T. I still got tons to do, like open a bank account, get an alien registration card and health check.
So no more of my boringness, does anyone know some good shopping areas in Seoul? Do let me know!