Fabric and Fondue

On Saturday, I met Loren in Dongdaemun so we could check out a fabric market. The building the market is housed in has 5 floors of fabric (including silks and laces), bedding, ribbon and beads. Everything needed for creating clothing, quilts, crafts and jewelry. We spent about an hour and half there, but I fully intend to go back this weekend and spend a lot more time there. I found some really fun fabric I'd like to buy and possibly make a dress out of. I would really like to find a sewing machine somewhere so I can start sewing. My mother would be proud of me, but I also need to learn how to sew better so when I come home I'll need some lessons (hint, hint mom!). I ended up buying a green fabric for a table cloth and I also bought a few other things as well. My plan this weekend is to buy some beads and make some jewlery. I'd also like to buy the aforementioned fabric so I have it in case they don't have it later. After the fabric we headed our seperate ways (but not before buying some sunglasses at one of the street carts). If you are in Seoul, the fabric market is at Dongdaemun Stadium station exit #14. Walk past Miglore, Doota and over Cheonggye Stream. It is in a large building to the left of the stream.

When I came home from the market I had to start preaparing for my fondue party. I went and bought the last minute things (wine and strawberries) and then got everything set up. I ended up meeting Ashely in Jamsil for lunch at TGI Friday's and then we came back together and finished preparing. I made three different kinds of fondue including, chocolate ganache, dark chocolate peanut butter and cafe mocha. We had strawberries, oreos, bananas, pound cake, pineapple, nilla wafers, oranges and brownies for dipping. I had asked everyone to bring a bottle of wine and everyone did. We had reds, whites and pinks. Eight people (including me) showed up and later my neighbor popped in because we were being quite loud, but she was happy to hear English. All in all, it was a great time with great friends and I can't wait to host another party. After we drank all the wine and had enough chocolate, we headed to a noraebang to finish the evening. We were there for about 2 hours singing and having a great time. When we left the noraebang, snow was falling and the bright lights of the wee morning hours faded. Ashley and Mikel stayed at my apartment because it was about 5:30 when we decided to call it a night. I got about 2 hours of sleep on Saturday night, but it was incredibly worth it.

Sunday was spent having tea in Gangnam and then a lazy afternoon at COEX. I had lunch at my favorite, On the Border and then I went to see He's Just not That in to You. The movie was quite good, it followed the lives of a few couples and I love when movies have many characters. I would reccomend it and I would dare to say it's not entirely a chick flick. I hope everyone has a great week and I'm going to try to start writing more.

Vacation...

It's been a few days since I last posted and it's purely because I'm lazy and on vacation. I realized the other day that I don't think I've ever truly had a whole week off with nothing to do. Of course I have things I'd like to do, but I also have 11 more months in which to do them. However, I have done a few things, nothing special, but I got a little more sightseeing in. On Monday I went to the 63 Building and saw Seoul from above. It was kind of a hazy and humid day, but I still had fun and saw enough.
Tuesday I went to Dongdaemun Market and was overwhelmed by the amount of stuff people were selling. They also had street food and pretty much everything I expected of a Korean market. However, it wasn't quite as big as I had imagined, but enthralling nonetheless. I don't have any pictures because I feel weird about taking pictures of people or their stuff, but I will at some point. I was lazy on Wednesday and today and I didn't do anything except for go to the grocery store and watch Discovery Channel and fiddle with iTunes (yes, I just discovered the awesomeness of iTunes and an iPod touch is looking very intriguing). I felt guilty about not embracing the city, but I also wanted a few days to relax. Tomorrow promises to be an exciting day as I plan on going to Olympic Park and back to COEX (I need a power cord for my NintendoDS and they have a Nintendo store that hopefully sells the cord). I think I'll do something on Saturday as well, but Sunday is cleaning, lesson planning and chilling before going back to work on Monday.