Sunday, October 14, 2007

Electonics Market

Electronics Market
We had one random Wednesday off so we decided to head to the electronics market it Seoul. It is a whole area of Seoul known for it’s cheap electronics. Bridgett needed an external hard drive and the rest of us (Camille, Bert, and Me) were up for the trip. It was fun wandering the jam packed stalls/ or small rooms full of all kinds of gadgets. Apparently one can bargain in Korea... but I was working my magic and only got $5.oo off so I am not so sure about this bargaining thing.
From there we went to Itaewon, (foreigner trap of Seoul-- worst of Korea/America in one place) but the girls wanted SUBWAY and I lucked out with Starbucks. So not much to tell from here... except that I got lost! I really had to go to the bathroom so I left the girls and then when I came out I couldn’t find them anywhere! I felt like a small child who looses their mom in a supermarket. I also was wondering about how if worst came to worst how I would manage finding my way back on the subway. I think I could have done it... but luckily I didn’t have to because I gave my head a shake and remembered I had Camille’s cell phone number on a scrap (literally scrap and torn piece of paper in my wallet) so I saw two foreigners and shakingly asked if i could borrow their phone. They were nice and obliged and phoned for me. I asked where they were.... and then Camille is like “hold on I can hear you!” and then guess what happens... she pops out of the store beside where I am standing with the strange men!!! HA HA HA... of course! stuff like that would only happen to me!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Okay, so I am commenting on these posts in the order you posted them. This is my first comment: I think you need to go back to that electronics market and pick up some Korean walkie-talkies, and everytime you get lost you can just do a "breaker-breaker-1-9" and find your friends. Excellent plan, I think...

Meira said...

it is an excellent plan... and so much better than my original one... to get myslef a cell phone... ha ha