WEEK 11: An Inception of Art

The 11th week of my exchange student trip is indeed very important to me (as a social being). Why? My birthday was on this week! To tell you the truth, I was clueless on what should I do on my birthday. The culture here is that the person having a birthday have to 'invite' the others to his/her birthday party. Well, that's kind of different from the culture in Asia where everything is done discreetly. Birthday celebrations are discreetly done. Birthday invitations are discreetly done. Even, birthday dinner/meetings are discreetly organized. HAHA. That shows how discreet (Southeast) Asians are. XD

Enough of the crap. My birthday was on 10th November and I invited some of my fellow exchange students that I knew quite well. I invited my buddy too. Well, I personally prefer a smaller birthday celebration where everybody could interact with each other. This, however, is so hard to achieve as I don't usually hang out with same people a lot of times. As the result, I have friends in various 'gang' XD Well, I don't mean to put it as if the community here is very closed and resistant to new personnel. I find assimilating to different gang is very easy here as compared to the same thing at Singapore. XD

OK. I digress. HAHA. Well, the birthday celebration was a blast. I enjoyed it so much thanks to the presence of a few of my friends. To mention them one by one: Alfred (HK), Sammi (Sweden), Joey, Jeff and Huipin (Singapore), Johan (France), Hong Seok (Korea). Some of them even brought me some presents. Aw, I was so touched. XD

And the day after my birthday, was the Pepero Day. You may want to google what does that mean for Koreans. XD This is like a Korean-Valentine Day, where one express his/her interest by giving "Pepero" (or better known as Pocky Stick). HAHA. I didn't get one on this day =(
Nah, just a joke. XD

On this day too, I went to Seoul Art Center with the Photography Class and learned some techniques from our teacher. =) Awesomeeee. =) I spontaneously feel so 'art' after the session ends. XD Oh, I went for a lunch with Grace, my classmate at the Photography class, exchange student from Australia, once the class ends. XD

And for the weekend, I went for a Temple Stay to experience more Zen meditation! =)

peace
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