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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