Anyone a Studio Ghibli fan?

Well, we are!! It started out as a normal day, all we really had planned was to find Eat Your Kimchi’s (EYK) “You Are Here” café and go for a walk. (For those that don’t know EYK is a YouTube blogger profile run by a Canadian couple that lives in Korea.) Well as we were eating, our friend from the goshiwon, Rhia (from the UK!), asked if we would like to join her in going to the studio Ghibli exhibit that was on. Also noting that it was the last day it was open. Of course we decided to go and in thirty minutes we left. The exhibit took a little effort to find but after wandering various floors of the mall it was hosted in we found it. The outside of the exhibit had all the posters of the films that studio Ghibli had produced and I even saw some movies that I somehow hadn’t seen.  I took note to watch then later as we went into the exhibit.

Maddie’s favorite!

To be honest some of the character models looked a bit odd and it was a short exhibit for the price but it was still well put together and was very cool. There was a fully moving model of Howl’s moving castle and a sleeping Totoro to name a few. It also luckily wasn’t too crowded for being that last day open. Needless to say it was well worth it.

Blurry but still a good frame… (Thanks for inviting us, Rhia!)

😀

Blurry Totoro

Couldn’t take videos but it moved back and forth

Maddie and CALcifer 😉

Shhhhh…

Awkward Ashitaka…

Maddie + Rhia

                    When we first went in we were given a blank white sticker, we finally found out why they gave it to us. Outside the gift shop there was a big wall that you could draw something on and add your sticker to it. There were many people who had drawn out their love of Ghibli and put it to the wall. We added our stickers too with what we could draw best. Mine wasn’t so good….oh well…                                                                                              After that we said goodbye to Rhia and headed towards the You Are Here café.

My little dude, drawn with a fading marker

Maddie’s drawing there in the middle. MCR was Maddie, Calum and Ria. Not My Chemical Romance….

Fun to look at this wall

Again we had trouble but this time with the trains. It made it a little harder to find the “You Are Here” cafe but eventually we did. It was a really cool café, neat models and stuff from EYK everywhere. We got some food and relaxed there for a while. (The way I write about food is this- We had sandwiches, coffee, milkshake. Eat. Nom.) It was interesting seeing something that I’ve only seen in YouTube videos, in person. Watching them from the USA it seemed very far away before. For some reason I don’t think my body has fully registered that I am in South Korea yet… Also, they have a booth there that they have people who visit the shop record themselves in. They have a video once a week of the people who do this so I hopefully we will be in one of their youtube videos soon! That’s it, quick update of what happened before classes started. Next…what the classes are like….   -Calum