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Where to buy cheap groceries near Daegu University

After six months living in Daegu University campus, I think I know some of the cheap places where to go for grocery shopping. So, I have made a list of all the shops, their locations and some tips when to go where. 편의점 - convenience store Most of them are open 24/7. You can go there to charge your T-money card. And buy some small snacks. Or whatever you want, but they are more expensive than the other shops on this list. Supermarkets Around Daegu University there's more options where to go. If I need just few things I go to  Lotte mart  near Main gate, because I don't need to take bus (saving 2 500 KRW). This shop is quite close, but there are shops which are cheaper. Nevertheless, in the evening they have usually some food on sale 😁 You can also add their Kakao channel and they will send you the promotions in messages (in the same window where you search for your friends profile you will search for 롯데마켓999대구대점). Other option is this  Orange Mart  (stil...

New Year in Homigot

Nobody knows what will happen in the next year, but we started with a big adventure. Some time ago I and some of my friends have agreed to go for the New Year's celebration to Pohang and see the first sunrise of 2020 on Korean peninsula. It sounded so romantically, that I had to go. We didn't know much about this festival, just the location and approximate time when it should start. Well, first we arrived in Pohang and we had to get to near sea which was still like 50 km. So, we got on the bus which was going to city centre. Actually not. The bus went in other direction, but when we found out, some Koreans told us to just stay on the bus, because it will turn around and go to city centre after few more stops. But at the end the driver told us to get out and catch another bus. Then he told us to get back on the bus. 😕 We have no idea why. But we met two Korean guys from Daegu, and they were confused too (they happened to be in the exact same situation as us 😂). Let me just s...

So this is Christmas...

Well, I wrote this article like one month ago, but than January TOPIK, exams and coronavirus happened, so I didn't finish it. You have my sincere apologies. I will try to write more (maybe shorter stories), so all of you know what's happenning in my life 😁 My first Christmas outside of the Czech Republic and without my family. It was a challenge. But fortunately I have many foreign friends here in Korea who were in the same situation as me, so we managed to do some Christmas events. Because all of was wanted to feel more Christmas mood. The thing is that Koreans celebrate Christmas, but not nearly as much as in Europe, Africa, or America where Christmas are one of the greatest holidays for most people. So you don't see many decorations (especially if you live in a similar isolated place as us), you rarely hear any Christmas songs and there's only one Holiday during Christmas in South Korea - the 25th December. With my Latin friends (we call ourselves 우리 가족 = our fa...

My kpop dance story

As most of my friends know I love to dance. When I was little I did synchronized figure skating (I was always too tall for solo 😂) and because of that I started to learn ballet. But I stopped with figure skating when I transfered to high school. Later I was one day surfing through Facebook and I saw my freind's photo from a dance performace. I suddenly felt like I need to start with dancing again. So I joined Anais - amazing group of young women from Prague who love dancing so much that nothing can stop them - kids, university, work, ... - we could still find time to dance (and also to gossip and have different girl's talks about everything). Our choreographies were mostly mix of contemporary, ballet and jazz dance. Here is a video of us dancing at last year's competition - you can easily find other videos if you write TS Anais in youtube (or ask me). But than I moved to South Korea and I was like: "This is my chance! I can finally learn all those kpop dances I w...

How to get cheap monthly plan SIM card in Korea updated for Daejeon 2021

Are you a foreigner and you're going to stay in South Korea for a longer time? Maybe one year or longer? And you want to get a cheap SIM card? But you have no idea how? I will try to explain the process in this article. First, you should be sure if you can actually use your phone in Korea, but there's a lot of articles about that on the Internet, so I won't be writing about that. I haven't found any article about the options if you want to get the cheap monthly plan SIM card, so that's why I'm writing this post. Because I hope it will help other foreigners 😉 I have to say that getting a SIM card in South Korea is extremely complicated if you want to have a cheaper monthly plan. For example: in the Czech republic you can literally go to a supermarket, shopping centre and buy a SIM card. You need only money. In Russia, you need to show your passport, but getting a new SIM card takes about 15 minutes. Well in South Korea you first need to have your Alien registr...

Výlet na Hwanseongsan

Ve středu 9. října byl v Koreji státní svátek - Den Hangulu, takže jsem se konečně odhodlala jít do hor. Teda výškově spíš do kopců. Cílem byla hora Hwanseongsan (환성산), který má 811 m. n. m. a cestou jsme šli ještě přes Nagtabong (낙타봉) - 656 m. n. m. Na poslední chvíli se ke mě přidal Christian, pro kterého to byl první výlet do hor. Za mnou je Nagtabong. I přes to že nejde o kdo ví jak vysoké hory, tak byla místy trasa hodně náročná, protože stoupání bylo dost ostré, lezlo se po skalách a tak. A já i Christian máme dost velkou hrůzu z výšek, takže si umíte představit, jak to občas vypadalo. Jedna část trasy se asi moc nepoužívá, takže chvílemi jsme netušili kudy jít a dvakrát jsme se kompletně ztratili. Naštěstí jsme pak zase našli cestu po které se dalo jít celkem rozumně. Vrcholové foto. Trochu jsem podcenila sestup z hor, protože z poslední hory Choryosan (초려산) - 635 m. n. m, jsme odcházeli kolem páté večer, což mi přišlo v pohodě, ale než jsme se za hodinu a půl dos...

Koleje na Daegu University

  Možná si někteří z vás pamatujete na to, jak vypadala moje kolej v ruském Tomsku ( první pokoj  a  druhý pokoj ). Tak dnes mám pro vás ukázku korejských kolejí. Daegu je na poměry ČR velké město, v současné době tady žije 2,5 milionů obyvatel. A jak už jsem psala dřív, tak na můj první rok v Koreji se toto město stalo mým domovem, protože studuji korejštinu na Daegu University. Teda, to jsem si myslela, než jsem přiletěla. Ale realita je taková, že celý náš kampus je uprostřed ničeho a nejbližší město je Gyeongsan, nebo Hayang (cca asi 20 minut autobusem) a do centra Daegu to je asi hodinu autobusem. Strategie - nemáš tu pořádně co dělat, tak se prostě učíš. Ne, kampus naší univerzity je obří a krásný. Vyžití je tu spousta, protože je tu spousta hřišť, posilovna (zadarmo!), bazén, skvělá knihovna (s gauči, můžete tam koukat na filmy a tak) parčík s jezírkem, ale třeba i lesní školka. Na fotce je vidět hlavní budova Daegu University. Od ní vede čtyřproudá silnice ...