Anyang festival

September 22

It was the day everyone has been waiting for. The first day of the three day Anyang festival. I was super excited, because there were gonna be good food and Korean artists coming to perform at night.

This is how the stands looked like. Every major had their own stands to sell food. Our group of international students also had our own booth to sell food and play games.

Our booth looked like this. We sold American and Dutch pancakes, Kazachstan bread, Hawaiian meatballs, Spanish tortillas and other good stuff. Students could also play beer pong at our booth. Everyone had to work a few hours to help sell and make food, play games with "customers", clean up, etc.

Everyone was prepping the day before the festival here :)

On the first day I worked at the beer pong tables and it was very fun to play. After an hour of working we walked around to get some good food like pork belly and takoyaki :D

At around 9 PM there were artists who came to perform, which I was excited for. There was Basick and Loco that I liked, Korean rappers, and they were very good!

September 23

Some pictures we took on the second day.

On the second day there were student performances. The cheerleader club of Anyang university performed and some students sang songs. The atmosphere was good :)

September 24

It was the last day of the festival, sadly. We had a long day of classes and in between classes I had the opportunity to eat this amazing ricecake on a stick, dukgalchi.

At around 5 PM all of the international students were invited to have dinner with the international office. They showed us how to make traditional Korean foods like a Korean pancake, bulgogi, etc. and then we ate together. It was very good!

Around 8 PM a lot of people gathered in front of the stage waiting for the main artist, Hyukoh band! There were so many people and I was glad I was standing on the balcony :D

That's Hyukoh. There were other cool other artists as well, like Giriboy and Black Nut.

In between all these performances there were fireworks as well! Anyang university wasn't joking around during the festival!

It was a wonderful three days and I wish my university in Rotterdam did something like this as well. It's very nice to be a student at Anyang university, I'm so envious.

Life in Anyang

How is life in Anyang going?

In the first few weeks I had to register for my alien card at the Seoul immigration office. My buddy Jinju and I spent that day together. We had lunch in Anyang first street. I told my buddy I liked this beef bone soup you're supposed to eat with rice (Seolleongtang?), so she took me there :D

One time, I walked to Emart with the others to go grocery shopping. Then, we discovered Emart online mall where you can buy your groceries online for the same prices and free delivery and I haven't been to Emart since.

On September 17th it was the school anniversary day, so we didn't have class. We decided to go to Lotte World amusement park, because it wouldn't be crowded that day.

I got to go in many attractions and it was very awesome. I haven't been to an amusement park in maybe 2 years, so it was fun to go again. I would love to go to other amusement parks as well.

It was also my roommate Jordan's birthday on that day!

These were pictures we took on the first few days after arriving at Anyang and I have to say that everyone changed a lot and we have become very close. It's nice.

Fun in the dorms: playing Puerto Rico, doing face masks, playing cards (Durak :)

This is the first time in forever I've seen so many foreigners in one place. There was a conference for the teachers/coordinators from the exchange students from the Magellan program. I got to see the coordinator from my school and it was nice to talk about my experiences so far!

I'll end this post with a beautiful picture from the time I climbed Surisan :)