Hello everyone! I've been wondering how to
start this blog, and delaying and delaying the first post because I kept
wondering what I should start with… well… I guess I should just jump into it,
right? So here I go.
Last Sunday, I met Simon and Martina!
If you don’t know them, let me tell you a
little bit about them. They are a Canadian couple who live in South Korea, and
now make a living as full time “vloggers”, commenting on k-pop music and
exploring Korea They are pretty “internet famous”, and I’m a really big fan of
theirs cuz they seem so relatable, and their videos are really funny. Check out
their website eatyourkimchi.com .
Anyways, they very suddenly announced that
they were coming to Japan, and I was really excited because I missed them the last
time they were here since it coincided with my trip back home in March. So when
they posted online that they were going to be in Harajuku on Sunday, I rallied
my friend Val to go and hunt them down!
Apparently I wasn't the only one who’d had
that idea because when we arrived at Takeshita Doori exit, we immediately
spotted this big group of foreigners who were waiting for them. lol. We made a
few laps around Takeshita Doori, and even went to check the Meiji Jingu area,
but our search remained fruitless. So we decided to go back to where the other
folks were waiting, and wait there too. About 30 minutes later, I heard some squeals and saw one girl run down a few steps, towards bright pink hair.
Soon, everybody else followed and Simon and Martina were just like “hey guys!”
as if we were long time friends and they’d seen us just the day before. So
chill, these two, so chill.
The first thing that struck me was “wow,
Martina is really pretty!” I know that’s a bit stupid, and I’m not saying
that she’s not pretty on camera, but she was a lot prettier in person! I guess
that’s a good thing though, right? You don’t want it to be the other way
around. And she’s taller than I thought too. I always imagined her to be pretty
short, but that’s only cuz Simon is so much taller. And boy, is he tall!! Like,
really tall!! Lol. And he was super skinny too… and you know how I feel about
tall skinny guys….. haha!
Well anyways, everyone was very excited and
S&M suggested that we move out of the way cuz we were kinda blocking the
street. It was decided that we would go to Yoyogi park since it was nearby, but
since everybody wanted a piece of them, and a bunch of people kept leaving
halfway through, the process was very slow going.
We bought some takoyaki and Martina got
excited about getting two service balls (eheh…) before heading towards a sunlit
concrete patch where we could all sit down and keep our bums relative spotless.
Martina had this shawl-cape thingie that she spread on the floor and told
people to go sit on it. So sweet! Then she said it was the cape they use for
Mordney Presents skits!! :p so everyone
sat down in a big circle and we all started chatting.
There were about 20 people there… and one
dude. Poor guy. Lol. It was a bit weird in the circle because there were two
conversations going on; one around Martina, and one around Simon. I actually
chatted with Simon most of the time, cuz I only had to fight 2 other people to
get my comments in, vs 16 hyper girls who were all vying for Martina’s
attention, haha. I would try to listen in on the Martina convo at times and it
seemed to always revolve around girly stuff. I only butted-in when they started
talking about nails though. XD
Simon was talking about a lot of various
things, from managing the website, to differences between Japan and Korea, and
teaching. He told us lots of stuff (which I’m not sure I should be repeating on
here…) about his “bad” school and why he quit… but it was interesting for me as
a teacher to compare POVs.
Hmm… I guess the only funny part I remember
well was Martina (followed by everyone else) starting to sing the “TAE-MAAAAAN!”
song… and then telling us that Simon originally thought it was lame and they
almost didn't put it in! no!!! that skit was so funny!
So anyways, I won’t bore you, but it was
really nice and fun, and we were lucky that the weather was so nice, cuz bear
in mind it’s still February, and we stayed sitting there outside for like 2
hours. After a while everybody was freezing proper, and they had to go to
upload a video so they couldn't stay much longer. And then, instead of just
taking big lame group shots (you know the ones where YOU always end up looking
stupid or with your eyes closed…) they let every person take a pic alone with
them which I thought was really sweet! And they were doing all these different
funny poses. By the end of it they were having us shouting animal names at
them. lol. Pretty funny.
Here’s mine.
We did manage to get some group shots as
well because our one male Nastie went to recruit a j-girl nearby to take our
pics. So here’s the good one…
And here’s the stupid one! (you can click on the pictures to make them bigger!)
Oh, oh, and look! I’m actually in one of
the videos they posted! Can’t believe it!!! Now I can die happy, haha…
So anyways, I had a really great time.
Afterwards Val and I wandered around Harajuku a bit, and I ended up leaving with only buying one shirt!! I am trying to be good....
peace out!
KC
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