Sunday, July 31, 2016

Feeling Korea (Day 13)

Our last day in Korea (29th July 2016).
Couldn't really sleep last night.
Woke up around 5am, took a bath, and looked at the view from my hostel room.
I'm so gonna miss everything here in Korea.
Time flies, 2 weeks just passed by so fast.
Wished I could turn back time and have everything moved slowly.
Checked out with our luggage and went for our last breakfast. 

~last view at 530am from my hostel room~ 

~my room~

Gonna miss my room.

~till we meet again CBNU~ 

~last pic before going for breakfast~ 

 ~last pic with Ngoc~

Gonna miss you Ngoc!
Hoped you'll visit Malaysia one day =)

~last pic with my leader, Jiwon~

 ~last breakfast~

Gosh! So sad.
Felt like crying but no. I don't wanna flood CBNU.huhu
Hold back my tears, said the last goodbye to all volunteers and the programme manager and the friends that we met.
I had an awesome trip here in Jeonju.

We started our journey from CBNU to Incheon airport at 8am.

~gonna miss the greens~ 

~the mountains~ 

~raining~

It was raining heavily halfway from Jeonju to the airport.
Even the sky was sad that we're gonna leave. 

We reached the airport around 11am.
Waited for 30minutes before we can check in.
~us in the train~

Checked in, had our lunch in Lotte Ria, and did the last shopping coz there were many duty free places.


~our plane~

We reached KLIA2 at 10pm.
What a long and tiring journey.

~gift from all 25 of them~

Thank you so much for these.
Appreciate and thankful for each and everyone of you.
It's been a great joy to work together with all of you.
Most importantly, I gained 25 new friends. 

~all the things that we did~

Goodbye Korea, till we meet again!

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Feeling Korea (Day 12)

Today's gonna be a long day for us, and it's the LAST FULL DAY for us in Korea.
Anyways, we woke up even earlier for breakfast, 730pm sharp we were at the cafeteria.
Had our breakfast and met up at the carpark at 8am.
We're going to Everland Theme Park, one of the largest theme park in Korea.
And it's gonna be my first time riding roller coasters and everything else in there.
Most importantly, we get to see Panda for FREE! Coz you just need to buy the admission tix, and everything else is FREE.

~our admission and meal coupon~

 ~EVERLAND~

Can't believe I'm here!!
Usually, you just hear from people that it's so fun and all, but now, I've stepped into Everland.
~group 2 pic before entering inside~


~we're inside Everland~ 


Time to explore.
There were so many things to play and do, but we only have 5 hours.
So, I just followed the ones they chose.

~LINE shop~

We went to our first stop, the family roller coaster place. 
So many people were queuing up for it, but it's okay.
My first time!

Sat the first roller coaster of the day and WOW! still okay, mayb coz it's a smaller one.
Went to our second stop which is the 360 spinning top.
I'm kinda afraid of it, but no harm giving it a try aite? =D
So, we queued up for it (and we saw a few volunteers) we and sat on that 360 spinning top.
For the first few minutes, I was okay (still can wave to the volunteers), then when it started spinning even more high up the air, I closed my eyes.
My heart--it just dropped to the ground.
Gosh, I came down feeling dizzy.LOL
What a great experience. Fuh...

Decided to go for lunch before proceeding to other places.

~lunch at one of the restaurant stated on our coupon~

Online, rested and had a good lunch. 
Then, we proceeded to the next place, with some water thingy.
We have to sit on something, it goes up, comes down in a fast pace with water splashing on us.
The queue for that water activity, oh my! So long! haha
We waited for around 30minutes, and finally it was our turn.

Another new experience for me:
Enjoyed it but gosh, felt like i was gonna flew out from the boat i was sitting when it slide down backwards.
Got wet coz the water fountain splashed all of us.LOL
But, it was fun.

~us after getting wet~

Next stop was the Pirate Ship.
People said that it was very scary.
Since I'm here, so i'll just try it.

~selfie before it goes up~ 


~gets higher and higher into the air~

I closed my eyes throughout the entire process.
I was feeling dizzy and my heart was beating so fast.
Gosh, it was really scary.
Once is enough.haha
Got down from the pirate ship, I felt so dizzy.LOL

The next stop we went was the roller coaster.
This time, it's an average one and slightly bigger.
My second time on the roller coaster for the day.

~us before riding the 2nd roller coaster~

Sat on it, went round and round, and it turned.
OMG! haha
As usual, closed my eyes the entire journey.
Enough of roller coaster for the day. Fuh, my heart, scattered on the ground.

 ~the longest and largest roller coaster in Everland~

This is the 3rd roller coaster in Everland.
Le friends wanted to try it.
I didn't join them and waited for them at a souvenir shop.

 ~ice drink!~

Weather was really hot, and yea sunburn again. 

~Saranghae Korea! Gonna missssss Korea!~ 

~us, feeling tired~ 

All of us were feeling tired after all those rides.
So we decided to just take the open air cable car and explore the other places.

~us at the open air cable car~

Quite fun to sit in the open air cable car. 
Our next stop was to see panda! Wohhooo!! 

~taken in a souvenir shop~ 

~penguins~

We saw a number of animals while walking to the Panda World.
Lions, penguins, birds, seals, etc. 
~here we are at Panda World~ 

 ~they were asleep when we were there~

There were 2 pandas in that place, Ai Bao and Le Bao.
Both were sleeping on the ice when we were there. 
These pandas were given to Korea from China, like Malaysia.
The place was fully air conditioned. Wow, so xing fu the pandas.

~with Le Bao~

It was his birthday that day!  

~so cute~

Can't remember the name of this animal, but gosh, so fluffy!! 

~panda souvenir shop~

Before heading out to the main entrance, we entered few souvenir shops.
We even captured many pictures around the place.
~with Brown, from LINE~ 

~Thank you EVERLAND for having us~

Grabbed a quick dinner using our coupons and we head out to gather at the main entrance at 530pm. 

~a pic with our funny leader~ 

~with the Program Manager of Feeling Korea 2016 programme~

Thank you so much for your great hospitality towards us.
I had a great and memorable experience in Korea. 

~a token of appreciation from Faculty of Education to CBNU~

Twas a long day.
The journey from Everland to CBNU was about 2 1/2 hours.
We reached CBNU around 830pm.
And yay! we got our pottery back and we took last pics with the volunteers.

~with Hyun Ho, another funny and sporting volunteer~ 

~gift from Malaysia to our leader~

LAST DAY TOMORROW!
Promised myself not to cry when i see them for the last time.



Friday, July 29, 2016

Feeling Korea (Day 11)

It's the 11th Day that we're here in CBNU. 2 more days till the end of the programme.
Feeling really sad.
Anyways, woke up, took my bath and went for brekkie at 8am.

~breakfast~

We had our last language class today.
Learnt the last chapter in the book and after that, the teacher asked us to write a letter to everyone in the class in Korean language.

 ~from the rest of the people in the class~

After everything, we took lotsa pictures in the class with seon sang nim.
Gonna miss all the lessons that she taught, altho i'm still blur with many words and all.LOL
Not easy to learn everything in 2 weeks.

 ~my name in Korean language~

~Jyeah! last class!!~
~3 idiots, only the 3 of us from Group2 (Edu fac)~ 

~a picture with my lovely seon sang nim~ 

~the classroom~

Gonna miss the classroom as well.hehe 

 ~all of us in the class!~


Before heading back to our hostels, we took a walk in the Engineering building for the last time.

~students' lounge~

Headed back to hostel, grab our lunch and prepare for our big day in the afternoon.

~lunch, Jajangmyun with rice, really so delicious!~

After lunch, headed back to room and took a shower.
We're gonna experience traditional wedding, that's our big day.hehe
Met up at car park around 1.30pm and we were heading to Hanok Village where the traditional wedding will take place.

~wefie with Jinq Wen, Ngoc and Jiwon~

Reached Hanok Village around 1.45pm but we need to wait for our turn since Group 1 goes into the hall first. 
So, me and Jinq Wen decided to walk around Hanok Village for the last time, since the last 2 days we wont be in Jeonju already.

 ~people wearing Hanbok and walking~


~Hanbok's for rent~ 


~gonna miss Hanok village~

Went back to the hall 40 minutes later and waited there.  

~a picture with Ngoc, my cute volunteer~

Immediately after Group 1 came out of the hall, we went in.
Can't wait to wear the Hanbok!
It started with some explanation about the Korean traditional wedding by the person in charge.
He showed us like how the wedding was held, the ceremony, etc.
Wow, so many things to be done.LOL

Thereafter, we get to wear the Hanbok.
I got the pink one as we couldn't choose the colour that we wanted.

~me in my Hanbok~ 

~with Zheng Ya~ 


~With Shamim photobooming behind~ 

~with Huong, my Vietnam friend~ 

~with the China students~ 

~with another 2 Vietnam friends, Minh Le and Phat Mai~ 

~a picture with my cool volunteers (Jiwon, Zheng Ya and Ngoc)~ 

~with Jiwon, our Feeling Korea programme leader~

~this is all of us from Group 2~

What a memorable experience for each of us knowing more about their traditional wedding and getting to wear the Hanbok.
It was really my dream to wear the Hanbok one day, and now, I got to wear it =D
Headed back to uni around 5pm, grab our dinner and we decided to go shopping at Lotte Mart and Old Gate for the last time.

~dinner~

After dinner, we walked to Lotte Mart, which is about 15 minutes.


~pathway to Lotte Mart~

~inside Lotte Mart~

Reached Lotte Mart about 615pm.
Each of us were holding a basket coz we're gonna shop for snacks.
Lotte Mart is one of the famous mart in Korea where the famous peppero is being sold there.
I walked into the food department and grabbed few snacks. 
Wished if I could buy back the banana milk but I'm scared it would turn bad.
We finished buying our stuffs around 7pm, headed back to hostel to leave our things, and we walked to Old Gate.
Last shopping in Old Gate, buying masks and other facial products.
Twas a great time of shopping.
Headed back to the room around 10pm,bathe and slept.