Haircut

Today I got a haircut. I walked into the local Emart, and went into the salon they have their.

The first thing I have to say is that the koreans kinda freaked out. They hairdressers all stared and were shaking their heads. Then one came over to me and tried talking to me in korean, of which I know very little.

now, before I did this, I was prepared. kinda.

i said no appointment in horrible korean, kinda just like aneyo yagsog (약속). I had no idea how to make and appointment! then they sat me down to wait.

It wasn't a long wait, about 5 min, before one of the hairstylists came over and touched my hair and spoke some more. He waved his hands about so I got that he was asking me what I wanted.

Now, I really had no idea how to say this in korean and didn't look it up, but I just wanted a trim. so I said "trim" and then put my fingers about an inch apart on my hair, and made a motion like scissors. His face showed a kinda relief that I wanted something simple and he sat me down.

of course I didn't have my glasses on so I couldn't see what was going on during it, but I could feel it. He did a great job, making sure to cut all my different layers, and took great care to straighten it and make it look very pretty. It was kinda a waste because it was raining out so my hair immediately curled and got all wavy as soon as I left, but I took a picture beforehand.

before

after!

Busan trip take 2!

So this weekend I headed down to Busan for the weekend for the 2nd time. I went a couple more places and took the tour bus this time, so I have a little more to say about my time down there.

The places we went
Busan City Bus Tour
Haeundae Beach
Busan Aquarium
Trickeye Museum
Chinatown

The first night we stayed in Downtown Busan at the Toyoko-inn. The next night we stayed at Mr. Egg hostel, the view at Haeundae Beach.
Now, I'm actually going to have 2 blogs, I'm going to talk about the trip, but I'll have a separate blog for the Trickeye Museum because it was picture heavy, and deserves it's own blog.

First we road down on the KTX, which was easy to book on their website in advance through the english section of the korean railway site, Korail, I'd booked the room at the hostel and the train tickets a month in advance. We weren't arriving until after 11pm on friday because I get off work late on friday's, so I couldn't get a checkin that late at any hostel when I called, and I was having a hard time figuring out the hotels. So we just walked right into the hotel, asked if there was a room, and got one. We were lucky!

We walked around Busan after checking in, but it smelled horrible and was raining, so thought we should call it a night and get up early.

We headed out early to Haeundae beach by hopping on the bus. The red bus from the station, number 1003, takes you directly to the beach. Or you can buy the all day ticket to the Busan City Tour and it will take you there as well.

We checked into the HOstel Mr. Egg to drop off our stuff, here are some pics of it.

Girls get the pink room, boys get the blue of course. After that we went over to the Aquarium.

I love the BMW Building.

After that we went and got pizza, and walked around. Then we went to the trickeye museum, which I'll talk about more in my next post, I'm still editing those photo's. We got back to the hostel and crashed it had been a long day. 

It was super hot, the AC wasn't on, and since it was raining slightly they wouldn't open the windows. The beds were hard too, so overall, while it's a nice place, it was kinda hard to sleep there. We woke up and ate some toast for breakfast, though they did provide eggs and stuff to make a good breakfast, we didn't feel like it. Then we headed out to the Beach!

It started out cloudy, but then the sun burst out and It was a great time at the beach. We headed back to the hotel, checked out, and then hopped on the tour bus to explore. It stopped at a lot of interesting places, and went across a bridge that was really beautiful to see. 

When we got back to Busan station we ate at dunkin doughnuts, put our luggage (really just a backpack each) in a storage locker that only cost 3000 won and locked with our fingerprint (figuring it out was kinda hard, but a nice man helped us) and then explored. We eneded up in Chinatown.

There was some interesting things, and some cheap shopping. However, from what I saw, at night it was full of drunk people, a lot of Russian was written, almost more than Chinese, and ... Well a lot of the places mentioned happy endings, massage girls... and.. well it seemed like an unsavory area and I wasn't very comfortable there so we left. 

We got back on the train, made it hope safely, and It was a good time. Here is a video I made of the Aquarium and the beach.