Went for Shopping

Date - 2nd September 2017

Today was a saturday so we went to a mall for shopping with our mentor. I bought myself a top and a skirt. We also watched Lotte World Tower. Thats the tallest building of South Korea. It is the first sky scrapper I have ever watched. For me even to capture that was so difficult, but I have made a try.

We went there via subway and our achievement for the day was we came back alone from there. It was easy though once you understand things because everything is writen in English there.

We also ate Aaloo ke paranthe today which were prepared by Anamika Di, Sheetal Di and Varsha Di. They were yummy and I loved it.

Today Avi bhaiya played Cricket with a few of his new friends. We also enjoyed watching it.

We all have our dinner together alongwith Avinash bhaiya outside the dormitory on thebenches and then we go for an evening walk. But today we got to know some people thought we are family and what was even more bizarre is a boy thought Anamika Di is my mother. 😅

But here it seems like we are learning everything from the beginning. Obviously we have to make a few adjustments but there is not that strangeness I had expected of being in a new country and that's great.

Yeah its different but not so different.

I always keep asking everyone's name and then forget it soon so I have began a new thing today. Whenever I meet a new person and ask their name, I note down the name of the person's name alongwith their country name. Its proving to be really helpful and sometimes we do share our Facebook accounts. I think once we begin with our classes I am going to meet a lot of new people and make a lot of new friends. I am just gonna love it.

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