Slow Saturdays means Lightroom experiments

Today we are all really tired and have decided to just relaxe and do nothing. We're going to Busan tomorrow morning so this is a perfect day to wear pyjamas all day. I'm doing a bit of studying today but to be honest... this is what I've been doing all morning - playing around in Adobe Lightroom 5 with a portrait of Elin. I also edited some photos from yesterday a bit differently.

Here's the original photo taken yesterday. Underexposed and not too exciting (even though Elin is the cutest)

Here are the different versions of the photo where I've been playing with just about everything there is to play with in lightroom.

UPDATE

I tried some different things with another photo as well, this time of the lovely Linda. The focus is a bit off but I really like this shot anyway.

Here'se the original

Welcome Linda, new lens and Myeongdong!

This week our last roomate Linda finally arrived in Seoul! She is all moved in now and we have been to IKEA and decorated our little apartment. I'll take some pictures another day because today I'm going to post pictures from when we were in Myeongdong, a neighbourhood in Central Seoul where there's a bunch of shopping. First we went to Yongsan though, a place where they have a huge train station and also lots of electronics. I bought a new camera lens (Nikkor 35mm DX f1/1.8G). I tried the lens out while we were walking around. We also had food at a Tibetan restaurant while there which was delicious!

Me and Elin found this gem on the street and decided to welcome Linda with him!

Subway

First test picture with my new lens!

Yongsan

Yongsan

Tibetan food time

The food was ace

Myeongdong

I guess every city has that one guy who walks around and talks about god

My new lens!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! GRATTIS PÅ FÖDELSEDAGEN! 생일 축하해요!

On Monday both med and Elin celebrated our birthday! Us having our birthday on the same day is actually one of the reasons why we started talking in the first place. The celebrations of our day were cozy, we ate cake and greeted eachother a hundred times.

Saturday free market and pretty roomies

Yesterday me and Elin went around looking for Bring Me The Horizons new album "That's the Spirit", but without luck. Seems like that will be a quest for when we go to Japan in November instead. The day wasn't a complete failure though, since I found the cutest little plush unicorn at the Freemarket that I had to bring home with me. His name is Staffan Gregorius. I also brought/got as a birthday present from Elin, a skirt I've been eyeing for a while. I don't have any pictures of it though. Maybe tomorrow, since I'm wearing it for my birthday! whey!

Today we had breakfast at our favourite spot, The Bread Blue. EVERYTHING IS SO DELICIOUS! I've spent the rest of the day studying about Gender theories and the history of Gender studies... though I'm not a fan of the author to the book we're reading. I can't pinpoint exactly what it is that bothers me, but it does. Oh well, only 75 more pages to go.

I've got the prettiest roomie

Elin is forced to be my model whenever I have the urge to take portraits

We found this dirty skinny cat walking the streets of  Hongdae

Murials 4-lyfe

Elin

Elin and me being a bit to overexcited during post-processing

Elin

Freshly painted. All I can think when I walk across these is that I should get a speed boost

Elin in Hongdae

Elin

Hongdae, our hood

Oh you know, I'm just out walking my sheep

MEET STAFFAN GREGORIUS!!! The Gender activist unicorn superhero

The past week at a glance

A student's life

Today is the end of week two of the term here at Yonsei. I'm learning more Korean for each day and keep busy with my other subjects. In total I'm taking 5 courses: Business and Society, Korean, Introduction to Korean Studies, Cultural Anthropology and Fiction Workshop. I'm also taking a online course from a Swedish university that's an introductionary course to Gender Studies. It's a bunch to read but so far so good. I'm not used to take 5 courses at the same time, since that's not how it is in Sweden. I'm not looking forward to sitting examt in all subjets in the midterms though... But since I love to study I'm sure that I'll survive that too.

Other than being in school not much exciting things have happened. Yesterday and today we both felt a bit under the weather and binged on ginger, lemon and honey tea. So good! We also booked a trip to Busan during the Chuseok holiday (27th-29th of September). It will be fun to see another city here in Korea! Our friend Linda will be there too, since she arrives on the 20th! OH and by the way! We've decided to move into a bigger apartment in the same house that date, since living three in this small space would be hard. Our host Jay is super nice and we're getting all new furnitures.

Due to the lack of anything spectacular happening, I only have two pictures to post. You can find more on my instagram if you aren't satisfied :) Instagram

Fall semester has begun!

Classes have started! Today I went to my first classes at Yonsei University. The first was a basic Korean course that I think will be helpful to understand this language! Thought it's veeeery basic. The teacher seems nice. All the students in the class were exchange students and I tagged along with a Finnish, Dutch and American student for lunch afterwards. It might also have been the cheapest lunch I've ever had... like 12 SEK for ramen. After lunch I went to the next class "Introduction to Korean studies", but no professor showed up. I decided to go home but when I got off campus I got a message saying that the teacher had arrived. He had accidently mixed up the times so that why he was late. That class will be super interested but with a lot of heavy reading. We are going to read a lot of works by Korean authors and other historical texts about how, when and why Korean has become Korea. Very interesting!

This is a part of Yonsei's beautiful campus

They also had huge speakers that played music!