It's official!

We-are-leaving! 

I'm glad I can finally blog about this, we've had this plan for so long and it's finally coming together, we are going to Japan for 1 month and then Off to omgI'msoexcited Korea, the plan?... There's no plan!, the only sure thing for now is a 2 week WorkCamp in Japan, we'll be making Tōrō nagashi. We will mainly help and join the Festival by making the lanterns with local students, I'm very excited yet a bit scared (ok, A LOT), I guess I should learn some basic Japanese phrases RIGHT NOW.

I would just like to finish with a few points, basically just answers to some of the questions I've received regarding this trip-adventure-whatever.

1st of all, NO, I'm not RICH, just so you know, we are flying with Tickets bought with our Airline Miles (Yay!!, Thank you Aeromexico!), I should include here that we won't be staying in 5 Star Hotels or flying 1st class, we will be doing Budget-travel, 1 backpack and (here's the challenge) the least ammount of Clothes/Shoes possible.

2.- PLEASE, Don't ask me "How is it that you travel so much?", because I don't travel as much as I would like to and it's also called "Working for what you want", don't tell me "I'm so jealous cuz you get to travel" when you just spent $1000000 on the newest gadget, or if you go out every weekend and spend ridiculous amounts of money buying drinks for your friends.

3.- YES, I AM SCARED, but being scared is OK, according to Sponge Bob (lol) this is the normal reaction to the unknown.

4.- "Will you be back?", hopefully I'll be back to visit my friends :)

Anyway, I just wanted you to know because I'm very excited to start this journey with my sister, please DO NOT think I just want to brag about it and be happy for us :) lol

-Gisela 

P.S. If you have any advices, tips, info, or whatever about Travels, do let me know!!

P.S.2. If you have any questions, leave a comment or send me an email!

Seoul Walking Tour - App Review

Hi everyone!

I'm sort of back!!, I've been pretty busy lately, working, planning, catching up on some sleep, studying Korean and well, doing some research online, as you know I still have plans of going back to Korea but this time my sister is coming with me, yay!!!!, we traveled just the 2 of us for the first time last year when we visited Italy and it went better than expected :)

We are both very different, but so alike at the same time, the only day we spent appart in Florence we ended up doing almost the EXACT same things just in different order, I'm pretty excited to go to Korea with her and show her some of the amazing things I've seen/done and to do new things I didn't have time to do before like Jeju Island!!!, but the 1st thing is... SEOUL!

I got so excited that I didn't know where to start, until I found the App "Seoul Walking Tour", created by the KTO (Korean Tourism Organization), you know it's going to be good when is created by the KTO.

1st of all, it's totally User friendly, there are only 5 options:


Home


The Home has 2 views, Map and List, remember this is only for SEOUL and since it's a walking Tour it will only show you things within a walking distance, the map is precise, it has a drawing of the "place" to visit and the name, if you find this confusing you can see it on "list" mode, although I would totally go for the MAP version :)


Camera

I don't think I need to explain this, you basically use it just like the regular camera on your Mobile device.






Travel Info

This one contains the Korea Travel Hotline 1330, operated by the KTO, languages supported, Service hours and fee!





Attractions


This is the same as seeing "Home" on List mode, only if you click on each location it will give you a picture and a brief explanation of such place, it also gives you the "Map" option and it will display a more detailed map than the one on "Home".

Last but not least, you'll find the Settings, to change your language to Korean, English, Chinese and Japanese. It will also give you "Related Apps"



















I found this app very usefull if you are planing a short trip to Seoul only, very easy to use and to the point, it reminded me to the "GuidePal" application, I've used other Apps for Korea but some of them had way too much going on and it was confusing using them, so if you are visiting Seoul for the 1st time, I would totally recommend this App, specially if you don't have much time and want to make the most of it!

-Gisela V. 

Monkey 5

Check out the Debut album of Monkey 5 on i-Tunes, the first “Whistle Monkey Band” ever in the world. The music would fascinate every hearts. 

Follow the Link -> https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shall-we-whistle-single/id648269972
Monkey 5 is the first "Whistle Monkey Band" ever in the world.
Check out their Facebook page here.

The Band has five mysterious members :
Whikey, Goldee, Liva, Bello and Touyo from an unknown species called ‘PINGKONGs’.

They whistle in chorus and provide unprecedented harmony with a variety of whistling techniques like scat or vibration. Their music touches and fascinates every heart who listens to them.

Monkey 5 has been preparing this first album for a long time with ‘healing’ as its main theme to provide unique healing experiences for those who are physically and mentally tired.

Shall we whistle along with Monkey 5?


                                        
-Gisela V.

Sorry!!!

I feel like I've been neglecting this blog and I'm terrible sorry!!

I've been working full this these past weeks and things are getting a bit crazy over here, I wish I could tell you all about it already, but I don't want to say anything until everything is completed...

But hopefully, I'll be able to get MORE and BETTER updates in a couple of months, I know the rest of May, June and July will be crazy, specially July because we are working on moving out and that's all I can say for now.

Anyway, if you are already here, I hope you can find something useful, if you can't find it or have any questions, let me know and I'll try to write about it or at least point you some place where you can find your answer!! :)

-Gisela V. 

I Like ___ Seoul! [Mission #1]

Hi Everyone!

Well, the 1st mission of the 2013 Global Seoul Mates is here and here are some of my favorite things about Seoul (Korea)

-Gisela V. 

Rush Ticket

Have you ever heard about "Rush ticket"?


Rush ticket enables you to watch the performance of the very day at reduced rates. There are many unique shows in Korea about martial arts, B-boying, traditional music, percussion and they offer up to 60% discount.

The Rush ticket website is still under construction, so it does not contains every performance, but here's a list of the performances you can watch!

JUMP
FANTASTICK
Action Drawing HERO
Ballerina who loves B-boy
Original Drawing Show
Drumcat
B-boy KUNG
SACHOOM
MI-SO
BIBAP
MISUDA
World Beat VINARI
Babbling perfordian show

-Gisela V.

Global Seoul Mate 2013!

By the way!!

The Julie Julia Gisela Project has been selected as a Global Seoul Mate "Grade-1" aka SUPER AWESOME! (ok no...haha) by http://english.seoul.go.kr

So, thank you readers for passing by :)

May blogging continue!!

-Gisela V.