Korean Cinema................

Well not quite, we went to a Korean cinema to watch the animation film 9! But the Korean trailers at the beginning were amazing! They definitely go all out on the jingles!

The point of this entry is to rave about my fantastic housemates even more then I have done so! Chan-mi, Hana and Jae-eun went completely out of their way to help us organise our trip out. They found which cinema the film was on, as all the websites are in Korean obviously and the cinema we had planned on just turning up to did not show it anyway!! The girls suggested we book in advance to get cheaper tickets, and Jae-eun put 8 tickets on her card because we do not have Korean bank accounts! They were upset when I went upstairs to tell them we were ready, because the cinema only had bad seats left, and we were stuck with the back row. I started teasing the girls about John who was joining us, and explained that in England, a boy will take a girl on the back row if he wants to be close with her!! I said I knew they had planned this all along so they could have john in the middle of them! Blushing much!

We arrived at the cinema an hour early to have a look around the streets and all the funky shops in the area. This was what we had been waiting for! The hustle and bustle of the city was so exciting and very different to the laid back atmosphere around campus. Mega bright lights stretched across the side of every building advertising singing bars, beer and fried chicken. Plenty of girlie boutiques with gorgeous shoes and specialist make up shops. Street vendors selling tasty Korean snacks (yes, I said tasty!!!!) The only disappointment of the evening was the lady giving out ice-cream samples had run out by the time we had chance to get through the crowd to her!

We had curfew, the dormitories are locked from 12am-5am so we got straight on the bus home and back to our rooms after the film had ended at 11.15! On Mondays there is inspection and roll-call(!) And Chan-Mi, who is a student warden disappeared off to inspect the rooms on our floor, only to return 5 minutes later with a clipboard giggling her head off as she passed our room!

Its who you know!