The Virgin Diaries

When you think of the beach, what comes to mind? Water, sand, and BATHING SUITS. Well, not in Korea. Nope, when you hit the beaches of Busan be prepared to see women in high heels, men in women’s hats and children fully clothed swimming amongst the waves.

~ChocChenal~

So by now many of you have ‘heard’ this story but for those of you who have not, here is my first inappropriate moment in Busan.

It was my second week here and I was waiting for a train in an underground station when I noticed an older Korean woman staring at me. Then I noticed her talking to another woman close by as she began to point at me. Then she proceeds to come closer as she’s making a huge cupping motion (implying that my butt was big). So I’m standing there w/my coworker and I’m thinking, “is this really happening?” So now this chic is about 2 feet away and she’s comparing her loose fit pants to my work slacks and making all these butt gestures. and if that wasnt bad enough, now she decides to literally run to other Koreans around us and inform them that my massive butt has landed in Korea. One woman told her to stop and that it was rude, but she gladly moved on to the next person. LOL! It was more shocking and funny than anything else. My butt’s big (kanye shrug) Whatever!!! :-)

~ChocChenal~

OKAAAAAAAY, so where do I begin? One weekend about two weeks ago, in search of a new camera, I decided to take a walk and explore my new city. I ended up in Seomyeon where I had gone many times but had never noticed certain places. So I walked into a Salon, that looked like I stepped out of Busan and onto 5th Ave, where I was told 80,000 won for a wash and curl (about 73 US$) :::NEXT:::. So I walked a little further and two Korean chicks popped their heads out of a small salon and waived me in. I reluctantly went inside. 

I noticed that there were several mannequins with braids, corn rolls and Nubian knots so I thought I might have found an “ok” place. I figured I would ask a few questions and make an appointment for a later date then finish looking for a camera. But when I was told that a wash and set was only 10,000 won ($8 US) I thought “hey might as well try it now.”

Ok so basically everything from this point on is a disaster so rather than type it all out (which is boring) I will bullet all the failures;

*They washed my hair ONE TIME (ummmm absolutely no suds)

*Washed out the conditioner as soon as it hit my hair :(

*THEE WORST PART was the blow dry, My hair is SUPER thick w/or w/out relaxer and MUST be dried WELL. Two Korean chics got on each side of me and used a toothless blow dryer while they shook my hair dry with their hands (if you can picture this). This took about 35 mins bc I had to keep saying its wet bc my roots were SOAKING wet. Dry ends wet roots :(

*Once my hair was finally dry TWO different women began to flat iron my hair NOT from the root but just about a little over half of the way down. So by the time they were done I had straight ends and Don King roots. DISASTER!

Honestly this post does this experience no justice. I should have just kept it moving :( I didn’t have a camera to take a picture of the hot mess that was my hair but maybe from the above description and the picture below you can imagine how I was looking on the way home. HAHA! Oh well, it was def an experience :-)

~ChocChenal~

Nope not the Madonna song, I’m talking about all my first time experiences in Korea. Somedays I still cant believe I’m here. But I am so I might as well blog about it :-)

I’ll be entertaining you with the good, the bad and the ugly of Busan. That means my first Korean salon visit #FAIL, my first inappropriate moment, blah blah blah and so on. And should all these first get too boring, don’t worry I’ll figure out something else to write about.

Chao!  <or should I say Ahn-yung-hee kah-say-yo. (way too much to say bye shesh)>

~ChocChenal~