Oh the joys of not understanding everything in a foreign country! Like buying coffee, opening it up to find its not JUST coffee!! Its chocolate flavoured coffee. Well thats what I'm going with anyway.. Or go to a waffle restaurant and order 3 hot chocolates. What will come out? Will they actually bring hot chocolates? No! They bring an iced chai latte ( which was bloody good) a cold chocolate and a caramel mochaccino also chilled! SUPRISE!!! To our glory, they bought us complimentary icecream when they only bought us 1 waffle rather than 3. Delightful!

I've been using someone elses internet for the past minth in my aprtment becuase for some reason it just wont work. But they great thing about Korea is that there is basically internet everywhere! Skyped my bro at the bus station the other day and watched my father on face time dancing with an Austin Powers lookalike. Can't beat being serenaded by my beautiful friend the other day though.

Korea is obsessed with plastic surgery. There are numerous advertisments everywhere on the trains etc showing "improvements" on eyelids, jawlines that have been chiselled from the bone, sliced calf muscles. Saw the first asian with Boobs the other day. Obviously fake. OMG.
They were huge.
They love coloured eye contacts, butt pads and constantly redoing their makeup on the train. Even the guys. Guys are fond of hand holding also- especially when they're happily drunk. My korean friends are awesome! They look after you well on a night out! Walked us home safely.
Nicholas and I went out for a drink which always means socialising with the locals too. One came over to pour Nicholas a beer and to my joy I got the entire 3 litres poured onto me. Absolutely soaked, I rished to clean my Ipad and bag. Then the fuss began. Everyone came to help. I couldnt string together the amount of sorrys I heard there were too many. Five minutes later we were joking and laughing calling the guy who tipped the beer on me an Idiot in Korean. The girls in the group went and got me a massive bag of food and drinks as a present too!
On Nicholas's Birthday, the generousity of Korea continued. People he hadn't even met that came along gave him gifts and cakes. All I had to do was go to the toilet and some young Korean outside had bought a mass of beers for our table! Along with a gorgeous fruit platter amongst other things. Everyone gushes over my Hair and I love it. I'm world famous in Pocheon as people point and nod when they see me. Cars slow down at the lights and I'm just waiting for a crash to happen right in front of me. My town is not very big and foreigners are very scarce. One child came up to me and hugged me and wanted me to pick him up. He did this several times until his friend told him to stop.

A medicinal food I have used in my cooking is the Bellflower root. Its beautiful in soups with garlic and ginger and wards away coughs. Coffee is terrible over here. All freeze dried and added sugar. Milk isnt like home either. There are no ovens so I wont have any real baking for a while.
There are foreign food shops but most of it is pretty expensive so eat Korean! Usually dont even feel like home food anyway! Felt like sugar for the first time yesterday and I've been here over a month.

Foreigners seem to either put on a lot of weight or lose a lot. If you eat korean food you will probably lose it, if you have the seond rate western food you will put on weight I guarantee.

Okay gotta head to work now! Kiss kiss. Love Alice. xx