Adventures in Harry Potter Land!: December 2012

I went up to Seoul two weeks ago to apply for my German passport and I had a lovely adventure. I tried to make a post about it on my blog, but I couldn't work it out on my iPhone. I managed to save the post and I'm finally putting it on the ol' internet.

Ja-ja!

I've been reading a lot of blogs lately (well, maybe just obsessively reading *one that Lizzie reminded me existed) and I then I remembered that I have a blog, too!

* This Blog. Shit's fabulous.

This weekend I've been clomping about, eating turkey with friends, working on my German passport (I apply tomorrow!), and Christmas shopping. Man, this is a lot of activity for me. It's 6pm on a Sunday and I'm fucking tired.

I'm currently in a Starbucks in Itaewon, charging my phone and hanging about until it's late enough for me to get into the Hamilton jimiilbang to SLEEEEP.

I totally stole a cup from that table over there so I could sit my ass here without twitching around, feeling guilty.

Here is my glorious breakfast from today.

And here are my passport photos!

Man do I look "I don't give a fuck." And German. And like a 15-year-old boy. WIN.

I had to haul my ass all the way up to Seoul for those bad boys. I had originally planned to apply for my passport in one terrifyingly manic day midweek. That was a shitty idea, but I couldn't justify the money to do anything else. And then The Germans informed me that I couldn't just bring any old passport photos I damn well pleased. No, I had to go to a special studio in Seoul. So, very luckily, my idea for a frenzied escapade doomed to failure turned into an epically lovely and well-planned 3-day weekend.

Also, when I called the German embassy and had this conversation, it became quite evident that the people who answered the phones were not the people who I had been emailing for over a year…They couldn't understand what the hell I was even playing at, ringing them up for a passport appointment unable to speak German.

Have I mentioned that I'm terrified of Germans?! They're so…matter-of-fact.

Anyway, I trundled all over this hill for about an hour to scout out the embassy today and avoid 8am panic tomorrow. (Good idea, all of the people who told me to do that!)

Then, I FOUND IT!!!!! (like 20m behind that map) Effing. Cheezed.
After that, I rushed off to Dondaemun for shopping! I bought lots of goodies!

Like my first bow tie.

This sweater made me audibly gasp, so I had to flee the building and headed into the trashy flea market trash bag shit show outside. Turns out, a lot of the department stores are shut on Sunday and every old person for miles hawks their trash outside.