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Week 21- Y4(Aug 3rd to Aug 9th) |
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Tuesday:
Okay, I definitely don't like Max! He must be the laziest person I've ever met in my life! I don't think I've seen him get off the couch once since I got here . . . except to order pizza or make some artery-clogging food. What's the point of coming to Korea if you're only going to see the inside of some apartment?! Also, he talks SO much and it's all crap. When are my girls getting back?!!! When is the French breakdancer getting here?!!!
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Thursday:
Finally!!! The French breakdancer is here!!!! Fred is from the North part of France, and is of Cambodian descent, which has been nice, because we've both travelled there and have talked about it a lot. Fred is here to train for breakdancing, because strangely enough, Korea has some of the best b-boys in the world! (Weird, I know, especially considering the culture, but true!) Fred also convinced 3 of his friends to come to Korea with him. Ashid and Hassan (of Algerian descent) are also here to train, and Adrien is just here to hang out and have a good time. They're all a lot of fun, and they're all really cool guys, but Ashid and Hassan don't speak any English, and sadly my high school French has mostly been replaced with Korean vocab. Ashid and Hassan are Muslim, and therefore strict vegetarians, so I'm a little worried about finding food for them here: Koreans are not the most understanding when it comes to special diets!
Even though the guys had all just arrived, and were really jet lagged, they were raring to go, so they started to search for somewhere to train and meet other dancers right away! Thank god I'm now living with someone with a little more drive than Max. I am currently living with a French breakdancer and an Argentinian magician . . .
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Friday:
Today I joined Fred and the French guys in Hongdae, because they had heard about some breakdancing competition. Unfortunately we couldn't find the competition, but we did meet some b-boys who can hopefully help them find somewhere to train. It's hard, because the language barrier is really getting in the way. This was around dinner time, so we started looking for somewhere to eat, but it took us a really really long time to find anywhere that we could be certain would have veggie options! It's so hard to be a vegetarian in Korea! We finally ended up at Ocean World, which was a seafood buffet. It was pretty good, but a little overpriced. After dinner, we walked around a little more and stumbled upon a dance studio, so we went inside to check it out. They offered us a free class to try it out, and as it turns out, it's actually more of a "diet" workout dance class very much geared towards teenage girls! We were all good sports about it, and the
boys did the choreography, but it was really funny and random! I couldn't stop laughing the whole time because Fred and Ashid were just so funny! (and yet totally nailing the choreography at the same time: these boys are seriously talented and I haven't even really seen them in action yet!)
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