Vikingess Voyages

Saturday, February 23, 2013

My Gangnam Style!

Anette 9:40:00 PM

Just checked out Gangnam for the first time today! My campus is so far, so I have usually just avoided going there because of the distance, but now that I'm staying in Hongdae it is so much easier to go there.. Didn't really see a lot of the area though, just met up with some of my friends from school...

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Seoul

KyungHee University 경희대: Seoul Campus

Anette 4:01:00 PM

The main campus of Kyung Hee University is simply magnificent.. Although it is situated in Seoul close to the Hoegi station it does not feel like you're in Korea's largest city at all.. Instead, the whole place looks like it is taken straight out of the Harry Potter universe with its mystical buildings...

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Hair Salon

Haircut in Seoul: Juno Hair!

Anette 8:37:00 PM

If you are a westerner living in Asia there is one thing that can be particularly frightening, especially if you're not 100% certain of your language skills. I'm of course talking about getting your hair cut. After having asked around among other foreign friends here it seemed like Juno hair was the...

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Café

Sightseeing in Seoul: Tom's Cat Café in Hongdae!

Anette 11:08:00 PM

One of the things that is quite characteristic about certain Asian countries such as Korea and Japan is that the population density makes it hard to have big apartments or gardens, and for many this also means limitations in the possibility of having a pet. Yet, people who do not have the chance to...

Monday, February 11, 2013

Language

Kanji to Hanja: 100 Words for Rapid Learning

Anette 3:01:00 PM

Before I started studying Korean I had heard that the two languages supposedly were quite similar. However, even though I was fluent in Japanese I couldn't really understand anything when I listened to conversations in Korean. After I started studying Korean I noticed that even without using kanji/hanja...

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Yonsei

Yonsei Intensive Korean Course Week 1!

Anette 8:08:00 PM

This week I started following Yonsei University's three week intensive winter course in Korean, and all I can say is that I has been really busy! On the first day of school, which I wrote about in my previous blog post, we had a placement test to determine our Korean level, which I felt went quite alright.....

Monday, February 4, 2013

Yonsei

Intensive Korean Language Course @ Yonsei University!

Anette 8:11:00 PM

I'm back in Korea ready for a three-week intensive course in Korean at Yonsei University! Although I have been living in Korea for half a year already I haven't really had the chance to study a lot of Korean as Kyunghee University don't offer any Korean classes at the GIP campus.. So I figured out...

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A modern-day shield-maiden who loves to explore the unbeaten paths of the world. From her base in Tokyo, Anette takes on both rural and urban challenges, and on her path, she has overcome anything from natural wilderness and cultural barriers to commuting in overcrowded Tokyo trains.

Life is too short to be stuck on one page, and this mindset reflects the diversity of Anette’s blog.
Besides being a career woman she is also a globetrotter, with 39 countries and counting.
No challenge too big, no adventure too small!

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