Busy Day

So yes, today was the first day of class. 

• At 9am I had Microeconomics, seems like it will be a pretty straight-forward class, no big surprises in the syllabus and today we already had a lecture. There are actually more international students than Korean students and Floris is my table mate so that's nice. In total, us exchange students are; 5 German, 2 Dutch, 2 French, 2 Bulgarian, and 1 American. 
• After that was Korean Language. Floris and I had this class together too so we went from one building to the next following the classroom numbers on our syllabus. When we walk in it is a massive lecture hall full of Koreans. Obviously this couldn't be right. Nonetheless, we sat down for 5 or so minutes trying to convince ourselves that they were just Chinese and also learning Korean language with us. That's when Korean ROTC guys showed up and we realized we were in a room full of Koreans. We rounded up the other exchange students who had confused looks on their faces and we eventually got to the correct classroom that was misprinted on our sheets. Korean language class seems interesting so far. We'll see how it goes. I already know everything from today's lecture after just having lived here a week.
• Last class was Linguistics. This was probably the most enjoyable class and I am really looking forward to it. I met a girl who actually knew Byeongjae from when they were in AGA together so that was surprising. 

After class I went straight to the bus stop near the campus gate and quickly boarded the bus to Seoul by myself. I got there in record time and took the subway to Itaewon. Itaewon is a big foreigner district where I saw more white people than Koreans, Vytas told me this evening that 60% of Itaewon's population is foreigners. I went there to get a Korean cell phone. Typically you need your Alien Registration Card to activate a Korean phone, but, if you know some people, you can get it in Itaewon with just an American driver's licence due to contracts some shops have with the US military. That's what I did and 50,000won later I had a Korean cell phone(simple, not smartphone), with SIM card, fully activated and a 20,000won calling card included (texts are only 10won so it should last me a long time). It's good to have a phone because, not just in case of emergencies, but that's how most of us exchange students keep in touch and know where to hang out and meet up. My phone actually does have a built in Korean>English dictionary though which is kinda cool. Before I left Itaewon I noticed many Turkish restaurants that sold kebabs and I just couldn't resist, I ate two, lamb and chicken. The music they played inside sounded a bit like Haifa Wehbe and it reminded me of Sarah. 

When I made my way through the Seoul metro rush hour madness and back on the bus to Suwon it was raining pretty hard. It's been raining all day. Even though I was tired I went to dinner with 6 others to a nice quaint Japanese restaurant and had some udon noodle soup, mmmmm.