April 2013
3 posts
The nursery!
Of course baby will sleep in the same room as B and I till she’s old enough to sleep by herself, but basically half of the room is for her haha. I don’t like buying very gender-specific things, firstly because what the ultrasound showed is never 100% trustable, and secondly because we can re-use everything for the next baby (when that time comes!). So Most of the things are quite...
baby nursery and doctors appointment
Let me introduce…
My new kitchenAid machine~ I’m so glad I decided to buy it (despite it being quite expensive here in Norway..), cause it makes baking so much easier…! I tried making both foccaccia bread and wheat buns with it - and it really works like a charm haha. I love baking, especially things like bread and buns, but I haven’t gotten to do it very often as I...
these days
It’s been a little over two weeks since we got back from Korea, and I’m already looking forwards to going there again! I really regret not shopping more for baby while I was there (shopping for myself was difficult anyways, since I don’t fit into most normal clothes anymore). I just hope that next year when we go back to Korea again, I’ll be back in my original size so...
March 2013
3 posts
My short korea trip~
So I just got back to Norway yesterday, after a really nice week in Seoul with my family! We got off on quite a bad start as our flight from Norway was canceled due to really bad weather in Germany (the whole airport had to close..!). After a few hours of waiting, we got booked on a different route to Korea; through Denmark and then Beijing - meaning we’d have to transfer twice. I was ok...
Going back~
Next week I will be going back to Korea already! This time I will only stay for a week, and it will be quite a busy time for me as we have to prepare everything for the wedding ceremony and all - I don’t even have a wedding dress yet..!! Actually I’m really really nervous and worried about not being able to find a wedding dress in time.. I have to find one that has an empire waist so...
Our wedding photoshoot
I do realize that I’ve been horribly bad at updating my blog lately, and I will promise to do something about that! I actually started writing this post about 2-3 weeks ago but never finished it. So now I will~! Obviously, we haven’t had our wedding yet (not until later this month!), but we had our so-called wedding photos taken about two month ago. Pretty much every korean couple...
January 2013
1 post
an update.
It’s been a long time since I wrote anything here on my blog, and a lot has happened since then!! B and I were actually busy planning our wedding, which will take place in Korea in March. We also used a lot of time getting the paperwork (for getting married) done, since we want to get it done in good time before the wedding. We went to get our “wedding photos” taken in a...
December 2012
1 post
Japan
Here’s a picture post from my short Japan-trip! I stayed for 4 days, and came back to Korea just in time for my chinese classes to start. My cousin, her husband and their three kids are staying in Japan till the middle of December, so I went to visit them and had a really nice time there! I kind of regret not staying a few days longer so that I could see more of Tokyo, but I must admit that...
November 2012
2 posts
Almost winter
It has gotten so cold outside lately. Autumn can’t have lasted more than a few weeks at the most, which is a little sad as I love Autumn.. Some trees still have a few leaves hanging on, but most of them have fallen to the ground. They’re beautiful and colorful on the ground as well, but I’d really wish they’d stay on the trees a little while longer!
Nowadays whenever I...
knitting in Korea
Knitting is not really a “common” hobby in Korea (neither is sewing, but that’s another story), but it’s increasingly becoming more and more popular. Especially a lot of korean girls learn to knit for the purpose of making a scarf/sweater for their boyfriend etc. There are some places where you can buy yarn in Korea, and the shop/café I’m gonna write about here is...
October 2012
8 posts
Korean coffeeshops♡
Coffeeshops are everywhere in Korea (unlike in Norway were you only once in a while can manage to come across one), and they’re wonderful places for friends to sit down and talk together, for two people to have a romantic date, for coworkers/classmates to discuss projects/work/class over a cup of coffee, and last but not least for people to sit and study by themselves. It’s very common...
lately
Studying at Paul Paul coffeeshop. I love going to coffeeshops with him - it’s a nice shift of environment (even though I don’t mind staying at home for a whole day, I’d go crazy if I didn’t step foot outside for several days in a row). We just sit mainly in silence (unless he’s asking me for help about his english assignments), while he’s concentrating on his...
Our new place!
The entrance, and the bathroom. We bought some genius hooks that we can just hang on the door (instead of making a hole in the wall, cause I don’t think we’re allowed to do that). So now we have plenty of options for hanging our jackets and such~
We bought this for hanging all our clothes since the little closet is way too little for all of our clothes.. and the bottom half of the...
randoms
I usually hate taking the subway because most of the time it\s underground and the lightning inside is super strong (meaning I’ll easily get a headache and get tired), but it’s really fascinating looking out when it goes on ground level!
A bubble tea store they have pretty much everywhere now, we’ve gone there quite a lot and they have a lot of interesting tastes. Especially...
our neighborhood
Here are some pictures from around the place we moved to a few days ago! I’ll post pictures of the new place as soon as we’ve moved in properly~
A tiny milk shop. This morning the little milk truck was parked right outside, but the driver parked it so close to the shop that he had to struggle a lot to actually get back into the truck again haha.
A little coffeeshop a few...
sick.. ㅠㅠ
I’m in Korea! my flight went well, and the plane food was really nice this time, but as before I didn’t sleep at all. I had a window seat with two buff russian men (I think?) on my left side - needless to say I was a little skeptical at first, but they were so nice helping me lift up my heavy bag to the overhead cabinet thing, and they were both out of their seats at least half of the...
last day!
I’m leaving for Korea tomorrow!! I’m super excited to finally go back to the country I’ve so much fallen in love with, and I promise to blog quite often from now on! Actually I’m looking forwards to the flight a little - because even though it’s a really long and tiring flight, I’ll be sitting there with butterflies in my stomach (just like the two other times...
September 2012
1 post
One month left until Korea~!
Just one month left before I go back to Korea!! I really wish I could just go on that plane right now..! To be honest - I miss korean food more than anything. I never realized until now how boring norwegian food actually is (I mean, we pretty much only eat sandwiches all day), and what I wanna eat the most right now is one of the spiciest things I’ve eaten in Korea, it’s called...
August 2012
1 post
slow blogger
Let’s face it, I’m not a good blogger when I’m in Norway. That has a good reason though - my life isn’t much interesting when I mainly just work, so i don’t really have a lot to blog about! In another month from now boyfriend is going back to Korea, and I can’t believe how quickly two months went by already!! I’m going back to Korea in the beginning of...
July 2012
1 post
with boyfriend.
Boyfriend has been here for three weeks already, and everything has really exceeded my expectations! We’ve had so much fun together during this time, and I realized I didn’t have to worry at all about him adapting to life here or whether he’d be fine with norwegian food or not etc. He’s adapted so well and is happily eating sandwiches every day haha. We had a few really...
June 2012
1 post
overworking and tired.
I’ve been back in Norway for a month already, and during that time I’ve mostly just been working. I’ve had a few days off to spend with family and friends though. I’m quite tired and stressed these days, I guess because of work (I’ve been taking every shift I can), but from next week on I won’t be working as much anymore. I’m going to the airport to meet...
May 2012
1 post
making memories
Today is my last day in Korea, and I won’t be coming back until October. I’m leaving a bit early because of some troubles with my visa (I was originally gonna leave in the middle of June, but suddenly got a phonecall from the immigration office saying that I’m still in Korea on my student visa, and since I’m not studying right now I need to get out of Korea as soon as...
April 2012
1 post
China part two
It’s been over two weeks since I came back from China, and it was a really nice vacation. I saw and experienced a lot of interesting things, had a really good time, but also a few moments of frustration in situations where communication was a problem. Chinese people are way worse than koreans when it comes to speaking english; most of them either don’t know more than a few words of...
March 2012
3 posts
Graduation, and first days in China
Wednesday last week was graduation day for the level 6 students in the KLI, all my closest friends were graduating. This graduation was the 200th one in the KLI, so it seemed like they put a lot of effort into making it good, and it was written about in the news as well. It’s a little sad that I won’t be graduating as I’m not gonna do level 6, I’d really love to have an...
Happiness.
Level 5 final exams are over, and I think I did pretty well. No more stress about exams - until April 15th when I have my TOPIK exam (Test Of Proficiency In Korean), and I’m also planning on taking a Hanja exam (writing Chinese signs often used in Korea) in May. I’ll have to study hard for my TOPIK exam while I’m in China, as well as when I get back to Korea again! Recently...
one month♡
Happy one month for boyfriend and I! After class we ate delicious lunch at a chinese restaurant, then went to see a movie, and then spent some time in this cat café. This one is located in Sinchon and was quite nice. In addition to one drink each (he had iced-tea and I had chamomile tea), we also bought a little snack thingy for the cats to eat. It’s funny, cause when we first walked into...
February 2012
2 posts
love and cultural experiences
so I had pretty much the best valentines day ever. Valentines becomes so much better when you actually have someone to celebrate it with haha. The day started totally normal; baiwei called me in the morning and asked if I had arrived at school yet, to which I replied that I was gonna be a little late. We decided to meet after the second class as usual, and I figured since I was already quite late,...
fun times and delicious foods~
I realize it’s been quite a while since my last post, which is mostly because I’ve just been really busy in every way. It’s been freezing cold lately; the other day the temperature went down to -17 degrees Celsius..! walking outside, it felt like my face was gonna fall off, and I definitely couldn’t feel neither my fingers nor toes. please come a little sooner, will you...
January 2012
2 posts
level 5, super busy
school started last week, and I’ve been super busy since then. My classmates are really nice, and we’ve already had two class meetings so far (typically eating together, playing games at a multibang, singing karaoke, going to coffeeshops etc). Everyone keeps saying they wish they had the atmosphere of our class - we’re really having a lot of fun during class, and we have many...
excitement~!
One of the few times it snowed till now. The temperature has been freezing cold lately (not to mention the super cold wind!), but we haven’t gotten much more snow than this.
I’m really excited and in a super good mood these days! Yijing is coming back to Korea on the 15th(!!), and she will move in right across the hall from my room (as in, when I open my door, I’ll be looking...
December 2011
4 posts
Christmas and ridiculous yoga classes
it’s already December 28th, and a new year is approaching. Just like last year, I didn’t actually celebrate Christmas much - at least not in the way I’m used to celebrating it in Norway. Obviously I don’t have my family here, and most of my friends have gone back to their hometowns (either permanently or just for the vacation). So on the 24th (which is when norwegians...
first week of vacation
The first week of my vacation is over, and I’ve had so much fun! I was worried I wouldn’t have much to do this vacation and be bored out of my mind, but that’s not the case at all - I’m still busy as ever! Today is probably the only day I haven’t been particularly busy; I just went to the hospital for a blood-test, and then went by myself to eat lunch (well if a huge...
birthday, goodbyes and volunteer work
A week ago was my 20th birthday! In the morning at school my classmates gave me a birthday muffin and yummy cookies, and a handmade card where everyone had written something for me! After school I ate lunch with Yijing, Baiwei and Diana, and after that we went to sing karaoke together for a few hours. At dinner time we met Erica (who had work until 5pm), and we all ate delicious dinner together,...
sick~
I realized it’s been a while since my last post. Lately I’ve not only been busy studying for final exams, but I’ve also been sick.. not a good combination, as I’d rather relax and do nothing when I’m sick, but because of the exams I still studied hard and went to school on days I really didn’t feel good at all. The exams went quite well though. Thursday is the...
November 2011
3 posts
the past week
Last Saturday I went to a jjimjjilbang (sauna) with Erica, Yijing and her boyfriend, and a girl from Yijing’s class. We pretty much spent the whole day there relaxing and having fun! Saunas in Korea are usually huge places with lots of fun things to do, and it’s very common for couples to go there, or for a whole family to go together and spend the day there. When you pay to get in,...
Seoul Grand Park
I went to Seoul Grand Park last Sunday, and it was really nice! our whole class was supposed to go together, but in the end almost all of them canceled because they couldn’t go, got sick etc. It ended with only me and a girl from class, and a friend of hers (not our classmate) going together. It was still a lot of fun - even though it was raining a little in the beginning, and it got quite...
exams are over~
It’s Friday again, and midterms are already over.. we had the writing and listening exam on tuesday, and the speaking and reading exam on wednesday - meaning I spent pretty much all of last weekend just studying. I originally had some plans for last Saturday, but ended up not stepping outside the building for two days straight haha. we got to know the results yesterday, and I was pleasantly...
October 2011
5 posts
"enjoyable funny contents"
It’s the weekend again, and I feel so tired.. Last night I fell asleep for about 45 mins or so in the middle of doing my homework, and when I woke up my neck was really sore.. I keep thinking I should start sleeping much earlier, but always end up doing my homework late at night in a super-sleepy state haha..definitely going to bed right after writing this post!
Anyways, I did lots of fun...
nice weekend
I had no actual plans for the weekend, and was prepared to sit inside and study the whole time - yet I ended up being busy pretty much all of Saturday and Sunday. On Friday, Baiwei and I sang our hearts out for hours in the Noraebang (karaoke place) that gives us so much service (free hours) when we only pay for one hour.. The funny thing is that when we decided to leave after more than 3 hours,...
Edae at night~
I really like walking outside in Edae after it has gotten dark - even if it’s 9 or 10pm there are still plenty of people outside, and lights everywhere. Sometimes I walk by myself to the market right down the street - more for the purpose of looking around, rather than actually needing to buy anything haha.
Speaking of the market; today I went there to buy some snacks, and while I was...
busy~
The weather is getting a little colder these days, but has yet to reach the point where you need to wear a jacket when walking outside. Autumn is approaching, I like it.
I went with Erica to go to a history museum located just a short busride from here, but we had to wait for our mutual friend for an hour or so before going into the museum. We spent that hour walking around with take-out mocha...
having such a good time~!
I can’t believe another week has passed by this quickly; it’s already Saturday again..! I had so much fun the past week, maybe that’s why it went so fast haha. Last Saturday, me and Erica used the day to go shopping around Edae. Edae has so many small sidestreets with lots of various shops (mostly clothes and shoes shops), so you can spend hours and hours just walking around...
September 2011
5 posts
my new place
so it’s been a week already since my last post, and I didn’t even notice the time passing by.. I’ve been to busy meeting friends, studying and just having a good time in general. My weekend was nice, I went to Baiwei’s place again, ate together with his family and then we all went to the playground and played basketball together haha. I really like the place where he lives,...
the past few days
It got quite a lot colder the past few days. Not that it’s actually cold - it’s still pretty warm outside, just not super hot as it was my first few days in Korea. I moved to my new place on Saturday with some help from Yijing and her boyfriend - they’re so nice to me really.. I bought them dinner that day in return haha. My new place is quite cozy, I like it a lot here. My room...
Somehow, I’ve managed to catch a cold (I mean, who would’ve thought it was even possible in this hot weather). I went to a pharmacy down the street, tried to explain in korean that my head and throat hurts and that my nose is super stuffy - and I walked out of there a few minutes later with medicine that I almost choked on when trying to swallow it.. I’m really not used to taking...
Hello Korea
After a flight that seemed like it lasted forever, I arrived in Korea around 11am yesterday. I was dead tired since I didn’t sleep at all on the plane, but other than that I was just feeling super excited about being back again. After getting off the plane, I went to get my suitcase, and then tried finding the bus I was told to take from the airport to yijing’s house. I got on the...
10 days!!!
it’s noon here in Norway, and I’m relaxing with a nice hot cup of strawberry tea. It’s gotten quite cold lately, to the point where I’m actually shivering while waiting for the bus in the morning. It really hasn’t been much of a summer here in Norway this year - I for one, have been wearing thick jackets and bringing my umbrella just about everywhere I go..
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August 2011
3 posts
Letters from Korea
I’ve always found such joy in sending letters written by hand, and I’m always so excited upon receiving a letter in return. I remember I had a penpal in Korea about 5 years ago, and we’d send eachother handwritten letters and some small gifts every now and then. As time went by I didn’t hear from her as much as I used to, I guess because she started high school in Korea and...
the korean touristbus and I.
Did I mention already, that I miss Korea like crazy? I didn’t expect at all to feel this much “homesick” for a place that I don’t even belong to.. You know when you’re in love and you find yourself thinking about that special someone all the time at totally random times of the day? that’s Korea for me.
I went to meet one of my close childhood friends in the...
