A Shopping Excursion with Lucy! Also, meeting with Prof. Jina Kim!

So, Lucy (a Brit dancer who also teaches at my school) asked me to go shopping with her to Munjeong-- a nearby shopping district. And, of course I said yes~! There's one street in particular, Rodeo Street, where you can find tons of shops and restaurants. We planned on shopping, then splitting up later because I was meeting Prof. Jina Kim in Jamsil and she had dance practice. So, our adventure starts by catching the 401 bus in front of our school. As you can imagine, it's super convenient having a bus stop right there.

Inside of bus-- best, wicked air con ever~!

Lucy-- kick-ass person

We're arrived in Munjeong!

ASSA~!  (YAY~!)

Classic Korean 'Heart' pose

View down a street in Munjeong-- yappari, a lot of clothing signage

First order of business before the serious shopping begins-- lunch. We walked down a couple of alleys before we decided to eat a small Korean place.

banchan-- red: kimchi, yellow: pickled radish, brown: fish cake

Lucy ordered my personal fav-- kimchi jjigae (5,000 won)

I ordered don kass- fried pork cutlet  YUM~!

My meal came with some pickled radish, real pickles, and cole slaw with honeydew melon dressing. It also came with some kind of clear broth soup. Super delicious all for 6,000 won (~$6) LUCKY~!

Me enjoying my soup

Table after we finished eating-- I always feel bad for leaving food, but that was way too much ^^"

Now, our shopping can begin. One store we popped into was a little (EXPENSIVE) boutique named 'Soup'
PERFORMANCE FEMINISM FASHION (?) I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.

We only browsed the sale racks. Korea (and most of Asia, really) has only two sizes: small and medium. Unless, you go to Itaewon (foreign town) where everywhere they advertise "Big Size!" But, ah well. I digress.

Lucy got some cute shorts for $20 (CHEAP~!)

Lucy as a mannequin

candid Lucy laughing

Me as a mannequin-- hands... so awkward ^^"

We also hit this hip, trendy store. Although, a similar store in the States might play punk or rock in the background, all Korean clothing stores (at least in my experience) play Korean ballads. No, not even pop music-- slow, 6th-grade mummy-dancing ballads. T_T  There stores need some punch, a little pizazz... a little fucking bass, PLEASE. *o*

Then, we headed over to Dickies to get Lucy a training bag, b-girl style

Success~!

We walked around some more and stepped into some shops, but didn't really find anything. We were, then, on a mission to find some comfy flip-floppy shoes in our size. But, alas and alack... this was not to be so.
Pretty soon, Lucy and I had to part ways to go meet up with other people.

So, I headed back down Rodeo street and onward toward the subway station. To give you an idea of how close Munjeong is to Jangji-dong, you can see Garden 5 tools from here. So, Jangji-dong is just on the other side.

Shot of Garden 5 Tools building

Line 8- Munjeong Station to Jamsil Station

Now, on my way to meet Prof. Jina Kim~! For some reason, I didn't take any pictures when we met up. FAIL~!!!!!!!! (-.-) There's an underground mall at Jamsil station, so after you traverse through there you finally arrive at the various exits. We then walked over to My Lotte, which led us to Kyobo books. We stopped at the little food court and got some green tea ice cream from Haagen-dazs. Super yummy~. I love green tea ice cream!
There, her husband, Brian, and her baby daughter, Ella (so cute!), met up with us and we all walked around together. It was nice. 
Jamsil station/Kyobo is a cool little place-- we went to 'Hot Tracks' where they have tons of stationary and office supplies, then we headed over to Kyobo proper-- the bookstore. It was nice to meet up outside of Smith-- in the "real world," I suppose. But, soon we parted ways.

I took Line 8 (pink line) back to Jangji-dong and, since I was there, decided to pop into Kim's Club to figure out something for dinner.
Garden 5 is really wonderful at night-- when it's dark and all the LED lights come on. Everywhere, parents were playing with their kids. It felt nice and ordinary.
Here are the fountains that have a coordinated color/rhythm show 

Plus, here is a video of the ceiling light show at Garden 5. The camera resolution kinda sucks so you really can't see how colorful and bright it really gets, but it at least gives you an idea. ^.^v