Today, I met an Edward

Wake up later than planned, but still early. Head to the cafeteria closest to my first class and grab a banana milk (950₩) and a wrapped croissant(600₩). Breakfast for 1550₩, yay.


Get to class, and introduce myself to the guy sitting next to me, who is from Illinois and whose name is Edward. I then proceed to ask him, do you get a lot of girls asking you about Twilight? and he gives me a chuckle and an exasperated sigh, yes. I continue to go on about how eclipse is coming out in the states and I'm missing out on it.

Not much happens during the day. For lunch I went to the cafeteria (more about it in next blog) I tried to order instant noodles with egg, but somehow end up with sushi, or gim-bap. Meh, it was only 1,500₩. I also got to watch the very last part of the Japan-Paraguay game. so sad!



I easily exchange money at the Woori Bank on campus, at the student union building, and it's a really good exchange rate- definitely better than the airport.
*I suggest getting only a small amount exchanged at the airport, then finding exchange places otherwise. At the airport it cost ~$200 for 190,000₩. Baloney. versus here, it was $200 for 244,220₩. Much better.

Off to Korean I go, not willing, quite yet, to shell out 68,000₩ for textbooks, and Hangul is HARD. I took mandarin as a kid (but didn't study) so the writing came easy-- but what each part sounded like was pretty difficult. Plus, the fact that I've been learning romance languages doesn't really help. But they DRILLED us really bad. Ah, well.

Korean Language is from 15:20~18:00 with 2 10-minute breaks, split up into 3 parts so really it's 45min of class on a specific subject- reading, for example- and then a 10min break. It's really fast-paced. I believe it's reading, then grammar/grammar for the other periods. There are 3 levels of Korean, and within each level there are more levels. So, I am in Beginning I. There is also Beginning II, III, IV, then Intermediate I, etc.

Finally done with classes at 18:00, back at my apartment, drained from this new language, chill out for a bit, and grab dinner at Millenium Hall Cafeteria.

Too tired to do much else, I sleep. Yeah, there can be boring days in Seoul. :P




p.s. some silly person put this sign up by the elevators to try to build community on her floor. the sign was taken down a few days later because I don't think you can put up unauthorized signs.