Festival Cultural de Corea y Koica

El sábado fue el Festival Cultural de Corea y Koica. Me enteré porque mi profesora de coreano me invitó al evento, el cual fue realizado en el parque de las aguas de Lima. El evento empezó a las 3pm, pero llegué a eso de las 5pm porque mi mamá se demoró en cambiarse -_-

Como siempre, Josy me acompañó al evento (・ｖ・). Lo primero que hicimos fue dar una vuelta por el lugar ya que las presentaciones aún no iniciaban. Cerca a un monumento habían varias figurillas impresas de personajes icónicos de Corea del Sur. Entre ellas estaban PSY, Kim Yuna, Kim Sejong y... JYJ!! Con Josy corrimos a tomarnos selfies jaja Ya los he visto hace unos 3 años, pero no tengo foto con ellos... aún (；▽；)

Y bueno, luego también nos tomamos fotos con el resto de figurillas presentes. Obviamente JYJ tenía una larga cola de fans esperando su turno para tomarse fotos xD Bueno, también habían varias imágenes del activismo de los voluntarios de Corea en Perú, así como información de la cultura coreana. También estaban regalando bocadillos coreanos, había un stand donde te podías probar un hanbok (ropa tradicional coreana), habían chicos y chicas con ropa tradicional (los chicos eran los más acosados obviamente ˘▾˘) y habían unas gigantografías de las calles de Seoul.

A eso de las 6.30pm empezaron las presentaciones. Se presentaron los alumnos del curso de coreano del Koica. Un grupo hizo una presentación de dos amigas que viajaron a corea por el kpop, y como se dieron cuenta de que debieron estudiar más la cultura coreana previo a su viaje. Otro grupo hizo una presentación del cuento "El sol y la Luna". Otro grupo hizo un baile de abanicos, otro grupo cantó villancicos en coreano (mi hermana estaba en este grupo), y otro grupo cantó la canción "Arirang".

Asimismo, hubo una presentación de 4 voluntarias que tocaron instrumentos musicales de corea, y una presentación de tae kwon do.Obviamente, no podía faltar el Kpop. Hubo cover de SHINee (Everybody), EXO (Overdose), Wonder Girls y un trío canto Gee en versión acústica. Todo estuvo muy bonito y bien organizado. 

También hubo sorteo pero como llegué tarde no pude obtener los tickets con los que participabas en el sorteo :c Será para la próxima. Cuando ya estaba por terminar nos fuimos a dar una vuelta por el parque, ya que teníamos que sacarle el jugo a la entrada (4 soles) jaja.

Lo malo era que mi hermana estaba cansada y estaba toda espesa. Pero mi mamá le compró comida y se contentó un poco. No he paseado en el parque de las aguas, he ido una vez anterior para otro evento kpop pero es la primera vez que me doy una vuelta por el lugar y aprecio todas sus atracciones.

Justo cuando paseábamos, empezó un espectáculo de luces. Fue muy bonito, porque era como una proyección sobre el agua que se lanzaba al cielo. Hubo un mix de música clásica: Lago de los cisnes, Cascanueces; y un mix de música peruana: Huayno, Marinera, Diablada, etc. 

En el parque también hay bastantes juegos donde es prácticamente para ir a bañarte... pero nica voy a mojarme ahí, y menos de día. Ya que estamos en fiestas, habían muchos adornos navideños también: un árbol navideño enorme, un nacimiento, luces con forma de papa noel, etc. 

Lastimosamente, como era sábado por la noche, había muuucha gente. Entonces era muy difícil conseguir buenas tomas ya que todo el mundo se te cruzaba, etc. Pero dentro de todo muy bonito. Lo único malo fue que dimos como tres vueltas al parque buscando la salida -_- 

Al menos hice mucho deporte jaja Y no hubo mucho sol ese día, así que yo fresh. En fin, ese fue mi sábado. Este evento me dio ganas de retomar mis estudios de coreano. Quiero terminar de una vez la universidad para poder estudiar coreano :c Me encanta aprender un idioma nuevo, es tan divertido. Oka, eso es todo por hoy. Besos!

MasGamers Tech Festival VII

Hello~ 

Friday (Nov 14th) was the MasGamer (Tech Festival). My friend Kimi got us free tickets, so I was happy I could attend to it. It was held in the Coliseum of my University. 

We arrived at 1.30pm. In the beginning we couldn't enter because the organizer with the bracelets wasn't there. But after 15 minutes, we finally were able to enter. The event wasn't full yet. So with Kimi decided to take pictures wherever possible lol. It was fun.

But we realized something. We were the only girls in the event at that moment :v. It was fun because every guy was looking at us. I guess it wasn't such a good idea to go to the event in mini skirt :v But seriously, it was awkwardly fun.

There where 2 conferences very interesting, one about the relevancy and impact of Videogames in nowadays and other about the Videogames as a way of education. There were speeches during the whole day, but we only listened to those both.

Then we decided to play and test some games of the events. When I sit to play some hiding game at a CPU Stand, some guy asked me to take pictures of myself for a magazine :v. I accepted. I only had to play and smile to the camera :v. Hopefully I won't be edited and appeared on brazzers lol.

I also tested some Level Up videogame, and since I was so lost, some dude next to me helped me. Later I  took picture with some zombies cosplayers. There was a game they were testing at the event, but we didn't get to play it since the queue was so long!

We then arrived at the PUCP stand of the event. They had in exhibition all the techonology advance they had in the university. They even developed some Karaoke app, so Kimi and I tested in with "Come over" from Cristina Aguilera lol. So fun and embarrasing.

We then went around the event and some dudes came to us to film us. They made a little interview. They went very proffesional. And again, awkward, but fun. I should have asked what program where they from. Anyway...

We left the event for a while to attend to some classes and then came back. We played some Play Station games: Street Fighter, Naruto, Mine craft, etc. By night there were some cosplayers. Actually only 2 that I really liked: Umbreon from Pokemon and Bender from Futurama. We took more pictures with them aswell. We also tried some energy drink they were giving away: Monster. The male models were handsome :v.

We played some arcade games. We also played some videogames created by peruvians: for PSP and for iOS/playstore. We took more pictures around the place and then left for some other classes.

In the end, it was a very nice event. I really enjoyed it. If I were a gamer, I would had been in heaven. I also need to thanks my friend Kim for the tickets, and for all the amazing pictures she took with her professional camera ♡. I should buy my batteries already! OTL I'm sorry I didn't post lots of pictures, but I don't like to make my blog to slow because of the weight of pictures.

Well, that's all for today. Have a nice Sunday!

Game over,
Andrea

Books, books and more books [PIC SPAM]

Last weekend, I attended to the 18th FIL (International Book Fair), which is held in my country every year. So I took some pictures to ilustrate this huge event. The first picture is about my university stand (lol) and the second one is about the Comic stand. There were some peruvian comic-artists selling their own work. Nice.

What kind of surprised me was the fact that there were lots of stands selling manga. Last year, there was only one that sold some Card Captor Sakura and Digimon manga, but this year there were tons of manga everywhere. From Naruto, Bleach, One Piece (the classics) to Eureka Seven, Vampire Knight, Soul Eater, etc, etc!

Wow, if this had happened back when I was 13 I would have made my dad bought me lots lol This year I didn't buy me any manga because I can read them online and because they are very expensive. The only manga I bought was CCS. I got like 10 chapters I guess. And one was signed by the actor-voice of Yukito. Someday I might talk about that.

Also, there were lots of music stands as well. Very expensive, tho. But I think it's worth it if you are a huge fan. Like my uncle who has almost all the dischography of Morrissey. He is really a fan. Anyway, I would have loved buy me some Beatle book to read more about them. I have lot of Beatle's culture because of my mom (she is a Beatlemaniac since her teens). But an original book is always welcomed.

There were also lots of kid's books' stands. I love the one above the most. So unique and the illustration was amazing. It kind of reflected on the price, tho. But I guess, it's due to its originality.

There were also lots of books for sale, like from 5 to 15 soles ($2 to $5). My dad bought lots of those. I was so absorted with the amount of books everywhere that I really couldn't find one that I would love to read. The were so many authors and books that I couldn't really choose. So I kind of focus on appreciate the whole event cause that's what it is. A whole show. Seriously, this was the first time that I got so absorbed with it.

Above you can see some fashion books and more manga. Ah~ If I were rich I would buy most of it. And the fact that these mangas were translated to Spanish was a plus.

There also were some stand for the embassy of different country, such as China, USA, Germany, etc. I went straight to the Japan one (lol). They were displaying several mangas, Japanese culture books and magazines. I stood there for like 2 hours, I guess. So amazing.

I read the magazine they had there. They were recent, by the way. I guess I should drop by the embassy library one of these days.

So yeah, it was a very nice event. There were tons of people that day. Maybe because they were taking advantage of the holiday (Independence day of Peru, July 28th). Anyway, I look forward to the next year's one. Next time, I will have a list of the books I'm looking for, so I am prepared for the colosal amount of books (lol)

Have a nice weekend!

Tokyo Fashion Fest

I really like lots of Japan fashion styles, so I decided to attend this event in order to know a little bit more about them. The show was held at Dai Hall auditorium in APJ center. A friend and I entered as guests (thanks to my friend Kimiko Haru).

Well, the exposition of each Japanese style was very complete and well elaborated. They talked about the famous ones such as Gyaru, Lolita and Visual Kei. But, they also mentioned the new trends presented in Harajuku street, such as Fairy Kei, Pastel Goth, Creepy Cute, Mori Kei, Dolly Ice and Culty Party Kei. 

After this, there was a catwalk. It was pretty interesting because we got to see outfits of each trend. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot. For example, now I'm going to research more about Pastel Goth and Creepy Cute because I've seen some of their variants in European and American fashion, so I may try a little bit of their style as well.

The event lasted for 2 hours with a 10 minute break. After that we could take pictures with the expositors and the models. I really like also the music they used during the event, for example they played PONPONPON by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. I like that song a lot, it's very sweet.

Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my camera OTL. So I only have selcas I took when I arrived home :c I'm sorry. I promise I won't ever forget again TT The pictures I'm posting are from Yu.Photography. You can check more pictures by clicking here.

Well, that's for today. Have a good weekend!

P.S: Don't mind my disheveled hair. It was very windy today lol

Kpop Peru Festival + New acquisitions

I attended to a K-pop festival after a while. This was held last Saturday and it was FREE. There were dance covers and fan club's got their own stands. Even though it started late and it was HOT as hell that day, I spent a nice day. I went with my friend Leslie from the English institute and I got to meet some Sones. 

The funniest part for me was the presentation of the SNSD cover. The group performed "Kissing You" by Girls' Generation and it was lot of fun because we all Sone gathered and started to scream the fan chants. Everybody looked at us. Even the DJ played a little bit of "I got a Boy" (GG's last album)

Well, besides my expierence in this festival I wanted also to share with you guys my new acquisitions. The first one is my new pair of sunglasses. I simply love them, I've been looking for a pair like these since a while and after a quick visit to a mall i found them! I begged my dad to buy them until he agreed lol They were pretty cheap tho. The were less than 10$

I also got a pair of sandals by my mother. I love the animal print in it an the little ribbon in it. I think they are pretty unique and they are perfect for this bloody summer.

And a few days ago I went shopping with my mom. I was looking forward to buy some clothes but I couldn't find anything that attracted me a lot. So in the end, I only bought a bunch of accesories lol. I bought a ribbon (it's like a clip for hair), a pair of unicorn earrings (I love them since Key used them a while ago lol) and a moose/reindeer ring (finally a ring that fits to my skinny fingers! haha)

Must say that I don't have ear holes :c So I should pierce my ears these days in order to use the unicorn earrings. The thing is that my skin is kind of allergic to EVERYTHING. I can't use necklace, bracelets, earrings, etc because of it. I pierced my ears for three times in the past, but they closed after I stopped using earrings due to my allergic. The only reason why i bought these earrings it's because they are UNICORNS lol

Finally, my PUMPS! The first pair is fair black and they are shiny. I made my father buy these for me for an exposition I got lol (I also made him buy new formal clothing ᄏᄏᄏ)  I don't know what's the height of the shoe heel, but everyone in my class were surprised by the hight of the shoes lol

 I got the second pair from my mother from her trip to Brazil. They have some sort of studs and are not shiny as my other pair. But I love these since they are so~ comfortable to walk with. The only problem is that they are a size bigger than mine ᅮᅮ However, I put some cotton so I can used them haha

Well, that's for today's update. Have a nice day! 

Korean Dance 1st Stage

Yesterday was the Korean Dance First Stage. This was basically a contest where fanclubs could win a trophee and money with their performances. Of course, as every kpop event here, there were lots of dance covers with it.

Overall, it was a pretty good event. I was really surprise that day cause it was the first time for me to be part of a fanclub in this kind of contest. I was with the SHINee fanclub. Well, there were sooo many color seas that day (and it was more beautiful at night). There were the fanclubs of Super Junior, SS501, TVXQ, EXO, SHINee, BigBang, 2NE1, 2PM, FT Island, CNBlue, Infinite, U-kiss, IU, SNSD, Mblaq, Kara and Jang Geun Suk.

When it comes to the covers, i got to say that i loved the Twinkle performance. It was so pretty and clean, the girls even got the same outfit than the TTS girls <3!. I screamed so hard the fanchants from my spot lol. There was also a cover of It's You (Super Junior), i felt so touch with it ;;

In the end, Red Ocean (fanclub of DBSK) won the trophee and the price as the best fanclub of the event. They were really amazing, but it loved the Hato Peru's performance as well. Anyway, im sharing with you the videos so you can have an idea of how cool was the event that day. See ya!

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Ayer se realizó otro evento de K-pop en mi país: Korean Dance - 1st stage. Este era básicamente un concurso de barras y estuvo acompañado de presentaciones de baile y canto. Yo estuve en la barra de SHINee, la primera parte del evento y luego estuve en barra libre.

El evento estuvo genial, me emocionó ver tantos mares de colores ese día, era casi como un dream concert. Las barras que destacaron más ese día, a mí parecer, fueron las Triple S (la barra de SS501), Hato Perú (ELFs peruanas, fans de Super Junior) y las Red Ocean (Cassiopeias, barra de DBSK). Pero también estuvieron geniales las barras de EXO, SHINee, BigBang, 2NE1, 2PM, FT Island, CNBlue, Infinite, U-kiss, IU, SNSD, Mblaq, Kara y Jang Geun Suk. 

Hubieron muchos covers con grupos de bailes muy conocidos del país. Me gustaría resaltar al grupo Steely Dancer que hico una cover de It's You, se me salieron las lágrimas con este último pues no esperaba ver una cover de una canción tan antigua <3. Y al grupo de chicas que hizo la cover de Twinkle de TTS, tenían las vestimentas igualitas ;;. Y cuando ya estaba por terminar el evento, la organizadora dijo: "Chicas, como ya sabrán BIGBANG va a venir a Perú" y toda la gente loca. "Bueno, con ustedes una cover de Fantastic Baby". Y la gente murió. Fue una fiesta con esa canción. Yo saltando y chanteando a más no poder. En serio, en el concierto de BB voy a morir con esa canción, todos creo.

Ya entrada la noche, el lugar estuvo de mares de colores (por las lightsticks). Se premió a la mejor barra (TVXQ), aunque para mí hubieron 3 ganadores. En fin, fue un bonito evento. Les comparto los videos de las barras para que se den una idea de lo bonito que fue ese día. Nos vemos.