To begin, the trip to Korea was exhausting. Arriving at 5am in the morning meant I had no rest, at most an hour nap on the plane. Obviously I was not keen on navigating Korea to my guest house on my own, so being naive and tired I jump into the first taxi I see! Unknowingly I jump into a high end taxi, can somebody tell me since when these came intk existence?
Costing me 88,000 korean won, this was probably the most expensive way to travel. This old driver was extremely helpful and so nice so I couldn't complain, it turns out these high end taxis are the only ones that can speak english, or you can ask for an interpreter! (Pretty darn cool if you ask me!) Having found the guest house after getting lost 3 times. It was around 8am and unfortunately my room was not ready, however I chose the perfect guest house (even if i am biased) and they had a lovely living room area with sofas and a television and I just made myself comfortable
The guesthouse named Bauhaus Guesthouse in Hongdae was in a quieter area of Hongdae, but trust me, you need this quaint area after being in Hong Kong for 6 weeks. The peace and quiet is almost a pleasure. This guest house is run by a little Korean family, mother, father and a young son around the age of 20, all extremely pleasant and with free breakfast every morning! This ranged from eggs to cereal to bread, and feel free to eat as much as you want! I found this was the perfect way to meet others in the guest house. This was also how I met my now friends from Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and some from Indonesia. After breakfast my room was finally ready, I could not continue without a nap. So despite offers to do something touristy I decided to stay in. Napping from 11am to 3pm I woke up much more bright eyed and ready to explore this new city! Although my luck meant that it started to rain, so going out by myself was not an option, I went out to the corner shop and picked up a few korean snacks for myself.
I have no idea what this actually was, a bit of "meat" with rice and other processed stuff, but for my hungry belly it would have to do!
The pop hot chicken on the other hand was DELICIOUS, crisp lovers this is a must. I even bought some home for my sisters to try, because I loved it THAT MUCH.
Later on Odilia and Livia returned from exploring Sinchon and for dinner we went to Hongdae, to the comedian Haha korean barbeque restaurant. Neither filling or cheap I was not satisfied. But the first evening was to get a little more exciting.
Walking around we decided tonight was the night, the hongdae boys were out and so were we haha. We were not prepared for what we were about to experience. We went to a total of 4 locations, a bar in which we HAD to buy food in order to drink (Soju here was NOT CHEAP, avoiding buying soju from anywhere apart from corner shops and supermarkets!) 
Korean street food, I doubt anywhere else in the world does street food better than asian countries. This little egg cupcake dessert thing filled a slight void from dinner. MMMMM
Jasmine posing with the incredibly small treat!
Street performers in Hongdae are incredible. We walked past this exact place on several different days. This first night was an older than average guy singing a few comical songs (I think, due to everybody clapping and laughing!)
Later on, a few others and I decided we could not enter a club without feeling slightly tipsier, that was the uni side of my brain talking! Entering 7/11 we saw that the exact same soju which we paid around 4500 to cost 1200korean won! Shocked could not explain it!
After this it was just us entering multiple different night clubs and all the night clubs full of men. Definitely not what I was used to, and a whole lot of what they called "skinship" just a wholeeeee lot of touching, and no place to move. And so we decided to call it a night.
That was day 1 complete, and with 6 more days to go!
Liquid Nitrogen ice cream! (That I did not get to try :()
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