Music Core, Bowling, and Harry Potter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuaIycGUBXg&feature=player_embedded#at=175Yesterday morning we picked up Nhi and Caroline for Music Core at MBC. All 6 of us piled into their small car and drove off completely excited! Once we got there, there was a HUUUUUGE line of fangirls with signs and everything and we were worried we'd be behind all of them. But since we got the hookup, we had special tickets that got us ahead of many of them! In the waiting area there were little shops, and a cool little museaum that showed the history of Korean Dramas. It was real cool. We also noticed that there were signs with names of bands on them and certain people were lining up behind them and kept getting to go in and come back out. We later learned that the TV show is pre-recorded in most parts because of special effects, and therefore they let the SUPER fans into the pre-recordings to get closer to the stars. It was finally our time to go in and we were pumped. There was it-girl on the stage finishing their pre-recording and we tried to film but got instantly ninja-ed and told to put it away. Everyone else that was caught with cameras was thrown out (that's why I have no pictures from it =[ ) Bands we didn't know were gonna be there showed up like b1a4, block b, and MBLAQ! We could also see the announcers and two were Tech and Nickun (sp?) from 2PM and they were sooo cute! Our favorite performances were by b1a4 and 2PM. b1a4 was really cute and in OK instead of doing the "i love you ou ou ou ou" finger thing, they made hearts and wiggled their butts lol. And 2PM were just generally adorable. They had to film them coming out of the audience 3 times and each time it got better! We were close enough to touch them! I was really disappointed by Hyuna and 2NE1 though. Hyuna only half-danced for half of bubble pop because it was pre-recorded. I was looking forward to her too! and 2NE1 didn't even show up at all! Grr. But THE BEST part was when we were on TV. We were the only foreigners there and we were dancing the whole time. Our friends at home said that throughout the entire show they saw close-ups of us on TV. Mostly during 2PM's put your hands up. The camera men actually told us to stand up and dance at the camera at the end of the song and everyone around us was jealous :p That night I went out with my host siblings and father and we went bowling. It was fun and I got third each time (but there were no bumpers!) and my host dad made dinner (take that real dad! haha). Today we went real early in the morning to see Harry Potter. I'm so sad it is all over now. I cried like 3 times during the movie and all the Korean people around me totally didn't get why I was so sad lol. We got burgers afterwards (and i'm not happy with Korean fast food. You can't ask for anything different on or off of the sandwich. I hate tomato, lettuce, and cheese, but everything comes with it on it and it is rude to take it off). I also will never really get used to how it is okay to shove people out of the way here haha. On subways, anywhere, if someone is in your way you just sort of shove them. An old grandma almost took me down in the subway! Oh well, I'm just chilling at home right now and i'm not really sure what we're going to do all day. Maybe I'll study more Korean.