Sogang festival

Last week we had a festival in our university. These kind of festivals are pretty common here in Korea. The main attraction are of course the musical acts that performed. Apart from a lot of school bands/dance groups/rap crews the university also invited some famous Korean musicians. This years line up included MAMAMOO, YB, Exid, 10cm and my personal favorite Hyukoh. It was such a nice atmosphere to go there in the evening hanging around with new foreign friends and listing to some nice music. Everything was so nice organized and the surprising part was that everything was for free. So no entrance fee and on most evenings free beer and even free chicken!

So here are few snippets of the festival and my university campus: 

The festival site in the morning

A very rare sight in Germany but I thought it was really fascinating to see persimmons growing in our campus

Hi ^.^ Seoul is still really sunny and hot during the day the average temperature is about 28°C

The schools sports field

Everywhere on campus students had different stands where you could try to win some snacks

Gonzaga Plaza- kind of like a mall with lots of different small restaurants

The theme of this festival was Star Wars so we had a lot of different Star Wars themed stuff around school

The place packed with Sogang students 

Mamamoo showing some sexy dance moves 

My highlight! Hyukoh ♡-I literally love every one of there songs but one of my favorites are 'comes and goes' and 'ohio' 

And also I have an Instagram account now @thereugxo where I post much more frequently about my daily life in Seoul !

Changdeokgung Palace & Insadong

My first Seoul related post..yaay! It took me almost three weeks to finally sit down and post something. The truth is that I haven't been on 'tourist' mode like I was two 2 years ago so I don't feel like taking my heavy camera with me every time I go out. But today was an exception because we had a field trip organized by the lovely members of our buddy program. So our destination was Changdeokgung Palace which I haven't been before. Although it was a lovely Palace I found it a bit crowdy maybe it was because of the fact that is was Saturday or maybe it was the fact that almost  200 students from my university came to this field trip. We were separated into smaller groups which we stayed in till the end. After Changdeokgung we walked to Insadong which is a touristy street where they sell all kinds of souvenirs like traditional pottery, dolls and food. 

One of the details I love are the little animal figures on the roof

Nakseonjae Complex- which the king built for one of his concubines

My buddy group ^.^

Delicious chicken! I have collected so many food shots I should do an own post just about the food here

Insadong-packed with people

I have photos of this place from two years ago-I felt like I had visited just yesterday

We saw this Mandu place where they sell all kinds of different dumplings - supposedly very famous around 

So of course I had to try some! I got the ones with the shrimp filling

Traditional Korean masks 

End of summer '15

I'm already two weeks in Seoul and I have been enjoying every minute of it! But before I post any Korean related photos I thought I will show you some of my impressions of this summer '15. After my exams I had finally some time to enjoy life and spending it with friends and family. This post will be very food intense but the truth is I have been eating so much delicious food that I wanted to share ^.^

I went to this Chinese dim sum restaurant called 'Chi Wan' in Munich. Although it is a little bit far from the city centre I can only recommend it to everyone who wants to try some authentic dim sum

I went home almost immediately after my exams were over to spend some time home. It was my dads birthday on the 20th of August and we had a lovely family dinner

A very rare photo of me and my brother together 

Delicious dessert-bavarian creme and panna cotta

My summer uniform: striped dress-H&M, sneakers-Stan Smith adidas

I bought an Instax camera because I love having photos printed out immediately and capturing some funny moments 

My lovely brother took me out to have some delicious Japanese food-it was by far the most delicious Japanese food experience I have ever had. It was made with a lot of detail and very authentic 

Sashimi- Restaurant Basho-An 

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