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Pictures from Korea!!~~~Sept 8, 2017


So I decided to make a post with MOST not ALL the pictures I took while I was in Korea! If I made individual posts about every single thing I did while I was there, It would take forever! So I decided to pack all the photos into one post! I already miss the friends I made but I don't miss the headaches I get whenever I visit :(












































                                       My friend Dong and his Dog. I met him a long time ago in America. He was hitting on my friend and we ended up becoming good friends like brother and sister. His family in Korea are always so nice to me and whenever I visit, he takes good care of me. He always makes fun of me though. Screaming when I enter a room and whatnot lol -__- but I appreciate him.






 Dong to the left and to the right, his coworker.










  The second half of my time there, Dong drove me to Seoul and I lived there for the rest of my trip.
During that time, I joined a dating app because I was bored and I went out with a guy who was so huge like a bear! You can sorta see in the background, I don't want to post his pictures because of his privacy and what we both experienced.
 He was very kind to me and treated me like a princess most of the time I was in Seoul. Bought me nice gifts and took me to amazing places. He was much older than me and like a daddy figure type. He even bought me the most expensive medicine from the pharmacy when I was sick and scolded me when I ate ice cream and other unhealthy foods. 

He wasn’t the type I’m normally attracted to physically. He was handsome but he looked kinda scary and I normally date very clean cut, normal or pretty guys. I liked that he had a masculine and "take charge" personality but his inside matched his outside. He had an intense stoic face, a low voice that reached hell and had big huge muscles. I didn’t know how to describe him until I remembered the Korean actor Ma Dong- Seok, they could be brothers they looked so much alike. But he was so unbelievably kind and protective of me, so dating him definitely opened my mind. It didn’t work out for two reasons; 1 being because he wanted to get married quickly. I don’t mind the idea of finding someone you like and marrying them quickly ( my own parents got married 8 months after meeting and they are still together and super lovely- dovey) but I just didn’t think I could live in Korea, especially since I always get sick when I visit. I almost never get sick. The second reason it didn’t work out is because of a huge scary fight we had over my temp job, I’ll explain below. 










Dentist guy I went on a few dates with. I normally wear dresses but he preferred me in workout clothes, so he literally drove me to H&M to get casual work out clothes to wear on our dates lol. It was funny but he was also a really sweet and nice guy. He took me on fun and thoughtful dates. Like going day/night camping next to Han river and buying so many yummy foods. Seriously so fun! He ordered so much via the phone app and they arrived so quickly.





The delivery man came right up to our tent lol








Seriously so fun! The next day he took me to play sports. I think he enjoyed seeing me sweat. 




The cafe’s in Seoul are so nice! I would love to go on a cafe tour!











So a little story time about the above photo. I got a job at a foreign run (actually European run) hostess type club in Gangnam, Seoul. My friend recommended the job and I got hired right away. I was bullied a bit by a few girls there but most of them were beautiful and kind to me. This particular night, a client took me and 2 other girls from the club to go to this super fancy karaoke place where they played live music while you sing. It must’ve been so expensive because there were bottles after bottles of expensive liquor and fruit plates coming in the room and out of the room. I got to sing and everyone was impressed by my rendition of Maroon 5's "Sunday Morning", lol my go to Karaoke song. I was so embarrassed but thankful. I also made a friend with one of the other hostess girls. She was a tall skinny blonde who was my height and had a heavy accent. Everyone kept calling us twins it was so cute but her shorter friend was getting a little jealous that we were bonding and taking pictures together. Trust me, tall girls deal with so much bullying and body shaming from others, so it’s nice to find each other and lick our wounds together lol.
 I had fun but this job was the reason the "bear" resembling, daddy type guy I was dating broke up with me (we weren’t boyfriend and girlfriend, just dating with the possibility of something serious- he knew exactly what he wanted and wanted to start a family quickly). 
I had asked him if he could stop by to bring me some medicine that I left in his car from earlier in the day because my head was hurting again( I was sick for majority of the 3 months I was there). He drove to me since he was already close by but when I came downstairs in a short black dress he asked why I was dressed that way (I normally wear cottage-core; girly but modest dresses) he knew I was working but I never explained where. When I told him, he got super angry and was screaming at me in his car and told me this type of job was for “loose girls”. He said a bunch of other things but I had no idea it was even a bad job. To be honest when he was screaming at me in the small space of his sports car, I thought he was going to hit me. I was embarrassed and scared and I really didn’t understand his rage. I just thought (and still think) customers come in and choose girls to sit down with them, drink and talk with them. That’s it. Sometimes a customer can bring you out of the club for karaoke, dinner or a nightclub? But nothing inappropriate. He told me I was being stupid and naive. I ended up quitting after our fight because I felt ashamed but all the customers were so kind to me and treated me with respect during the time I worked there. No touching is involved and no one was inappropriate with me or the other girls. I worked there for maybe 2 weeks and I went to a nice dinner with a customer in Itaewon, a night club in Gangnam with another customer where we had a vip section (and he was totally sweet to me it was other club goers and staff who were aggressive with me and trying to grab me- that man actually protected me) and then the last outdoor field trip was this fancy Karaoke bar with the other girls from my club. So many people were in this room, both “bosses and hostesses” all the hostesses were super skinny and model like. The tall blonde and her friend from my club and some other pretty girls from a different club. Even the older Korean, "madam-like" , lady with the other male bosses was super pretty. 
I keep saying "bosses" because I don't know how to describe them. Some of the guys were big-wigs in the TV and music entertainment industry and others were (I think) CEO's for major companies in Korea.
I wasn’t there long enough to experience any inappropriateness. It was just something I wanted to do because as a girl who loves the lord and is from a strict Christian household, I was never able to have experiences like this and it was truly fun and different. The “bosses” I met while working there reminded me of people I grew up with. Because of my father’s career, I grew up going to parties with people similar to the ones who would visit the club. I didn’t need to work there but I thought the experience would help me with my shyness, which it definitely did! The conversations were all appropriate and flowed quite naturally.  I was invited to go to an exclusive members golf club to play with a customer and his friends the following week but because I quit, I didn’t get to go :(. 
The guy I was dating broke things off with me because I worked there so I felt like I quit in vain lol. My friend Dong said the rules may be different because it was a foreign run club but those clubs do hold  bad reputation. 



 I really miss Dong's dog. :(








Some type of bug?
My friend Dong looks scary but it’s only because he was in a car accident a long time ago before I met him and it left scars all over his face. People always say he looks like a gangster but no, he is just a butthead. He likes to call me “black Godzilla” -___- Cute nick name no? Ugh







So it may seem like I was dating around a lot while I was there but I really just dated two guys. I honestly don’t have the battery power to deal with more than two people at a time. I joined the dating app because my friend Dong was busy most days working. 
I think there is a common misconception in society, especially western society that when you date, your also being intimate physically with the other person. That simply is not true for me. When I date it is strictly going out together and having fun like friends; sharing laughs, memories, good food and opening up emotional. Nothing physical at all. Not even kissing! 
It’s like a fun interview process. Just having fun and not taking things so seriously you know? Anyway I was there for about 3 months and had an amazing time! I really don’t see myself ever moving to Korea but I have to say, I always enjoy myself when I'm there. I will continue to visit in the future but that was enough of Korea for now. lol

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