Documentary

As I'm sure people in the family know already, I'm taking a documentary class. In addition, I'm looking into my adoption with the ideal goal of finding my biological mother... which is the story I'm telling in my documentary. Trying to schedule a meeting with the social worker who handled my orphan to foster care to adoption procedure.

Games

Tried a few outlet adapters and my 3DS's charger still doesn't work. Found out Tetris Friends (the official Tetris website for free online play of Tetris and several game-type variants) is banned in Korea. So, that explains why I can't log into my account there and why the games won't load. Trying to refrain from playing my usual online game. It's easy since the time zone difference makes it really hard to be on when everyone I know who plays, so I just don't bother to log in.

Water Parks + Rain = bad idea

I woke up with quite a few mosquito bites this morning and the count steadily grew as the day went by. Had I known it was going to rain today, I would have chosen to go to Lotte World instead during sign-ups yesterday. There was a wave pool outside, slides and pools inside. Sat in one of the steam saunas for a while to pass the time. Carribean Bay is known to have the world's longest Lazy River.

Oh, the cafeteria on the first floor of the men's dormitory is closed due to renovation and maintenance... so there goes the cheap meal option for who knows how long. We international students were not given a heads-up on this so this complicates cash in the wallet (more trips to the ATM to get more). Luckily, the cafeteria beneath the School of Business is still operational. So, I plan to go there everyday for lunch in between classes.

Not sure what else to put here...

Mal de Debarquement Syndrome

I think I may have it. Been feeling like I'm still on a boat ever since I got here.

Wikipedia article

Change of Plans

Well, today I expected to do the Seoul city tour, but turns out it was raining too hard to go apparently... I didn't see any rainfall myself so I don't know why they bothered to change plans. Either way, the new destination was the Coex shopping mall. It was about... eight train stops. I managed to take a picture of the river that we crossed over.

Upon reaching the shopping center I realized I wasn't in the mood to shop, so I just went with some friends and wandered around Coex and took pictures of random things.

Yes, those are waffles with cream fillings.

After wandering enough, we (Laitfa, Olivia, Willis, and myself) decided to get something to eat... at Kraze Burger--again. I got the KS Burger and Pepsi.

No plans yet for later tonight.

Dongdaemun

I wanted to rest today instead of going to Dongdaemun, but I went against my better judgment and went along. With my knees and the arches of my feet still yelping in pain from the previous night I bit the bullet and slowly hobbled to and fro with everyone else. I'm usually not the one to complain when my knees and feet are in pain, but today was a major exception. Also, I'm sorry for not taking any photos of Dongdaemun; I was too tired to do anything other than trying to keep up.

Speaking of keeping up, the group to Dongdaemun was 22 people strong, but once we got there and decided to split up, well, let's just say we initially had two groups that were just about evenly divided in numbers and it ended with five to six small groups. The group I was in (the "we're hungry, let's go eat!" group) got split up since we were walking fairly slow (I was the straggler in the very back of course). We ended up taking a small detour through a shopping center to escape the rain and to find restrooms. Afterwards, we stumbled upon a more classier shopping department with small sit down places to eat. Being not entirely picky the five of us decided on a burger joint called Kraze Burger (the word kraze is shown backward).

4 pm came by swiftly as we walked back to the meeting point and proceeded to take the subway back. Funny thing is that the line to refill my transit card was long and I was the last person in line. To make things worse and funny at the same time, an older woman in front of me had a hard time refilling her card. First, the touchscreen wouldn't recognize her choices and then the machine didn't give her the correct change. Thirdly, a handful of us were too slow to get on the train and the doors shut in our faces. This resulted in us having to wait for the next one.

As we reached the campus, I began to complain a little ("I'm getting too old for this s#*t...") more. Once back inside and put my stuff down, I marched back down to the little store inside the cafeteria on the first floor to get some Chilsung Cider (Korean equivalent to Sprite) and a Vitamin Water for later (2,800 KRW total). So, here is the present with me finishing up this post debating whether or not to go eat dinner. I'm not hungry now, but will be in three hours or so. Dinner ends in 45 minutes. Hmm....

Oh, and here is a picture of Chilsung Cider

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Exploring... now with Soju!

Tired and came back from drinking. We all explored the campus some more with the girls and then afterwards Robert and I met the guy across from us, Rick from Holland. Us three went out to E-Mart to get him some bed sheets and then decided to go out for some drinks and a quick dinner. I had two shots of Soju and a few pieces of fried chicken. I'll post more later (a part two if you will), though. I can't handle alcohol.