Our day began very early. Christina and I went to bed around 7:30 last night and of course woke up at the nice early hour of 5am. Wide awake. Which was ok. I got to chat with some people at home, who were just winding up their day. But even so, 5am is super early and I do not approve. Stamp.
Breakfast was an entire hour earlier this morning, which threw me off. Thank goodness Christina checks the schedule, that's all I gotta say. The first thing after breakfast was worship, of course. After worship our fearless leader, Tasha, had us do some more paperwork. It seems like everyday we have another form to fill out and another line to sign. After the paperwork we had a brief break where Christina and I decided to go check out the stuff around our area.
We walked down the road to where we had seen puppies the other day and found this tiny pet shop wedged in between an arcade and a toilet. Not kidding. The door I opened, thinking it was the pet shop, opened to a tiny room, maybe 3'X3', with only a Korean toilet inside. Just a door, on the side of a building, on a street, with a toilet in it. Very odd. Also it was not a normal toilet. It looks like a urinal that has fallen off the wall and is now laying on the floor. If you are a girl you squat over it. If you are a guy you just do what ever it is that you normally do. Fun times.
So we checked out the puppies, they were SOOOO cute!!! The lady working there didn't know any English, of course, and we didn't know any Korean so there was a bit of mumbling and bowing and we went on our way. We wandered around for a while then found another pet store. this one had very cool dogs. Dogs with neon ears and tails. I guess they colored them, or dyed them. It was pretty funny looking, but also kind of cool.
After our brief walk we headed back for more orientation. We got our pictures taken for our immigration cards and had another lecture on things to expect from Korean culture. The All Day club came to help teach us pronunciation. The All Day club is a group of Korean students who have decided to take all their classes at the institute. Instead of just taking one or two classes. They came in and sat with us and they got us to speak Korean and we helped them with their English. It was pretty cool.
After lunch we were drilled in the Korean language. A nice lady named Ok, taught us the Korean Alphabet using a fun song and hand motions. She is crazy! And by crazy I mean crazy cool. She is really funny and loves to joke around so it wasn't boring. The only problem was these desks we were sitting at. They were made for Asians. A little too short, and a little to shallow. My knees don't really fit under them. Also the chairs have lower backs on them and they are hard. After a while your body just kinda goes numb. Once we became completely overwhelmed and swamped with Korean, Leo, the academic dean, came and gave us a nice little talk on policy. Oh, we also learned about our awesome insurance coverage and medical stuff.
And that brings us up to now. We skipped supper because we are still stuffed from lunch and we are sitting in our room being antisocial. the jet lag is still very present and annoying. Hopefully soon we can recover from that! I think thats it... It's still hot.. and rainy occasionally. but we do have AC now, so that is much better =)
the end
michelle
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