From Sunday to Thursday, a lot has happened and I'm sorry for not updating sooner! Whenever I come back to my room in the evenings I am typically very tired and when I wake up in the mornings I'm usually running late to class. Korea is a very fast paced society. Koreans don't like to wait for anything, their internet is the fastest, the longest I have waited for my food is maybe 5 minutes, and bus timetables are immaculate. I feel like I've been encompassed and am a part of that fast paced society now so this afternoon being able to just relax in my room is well deserved. I really do enjoy everything I do and being able to do so many things everyday, but it's just something different than at home. This week has been a fairly normal week in school, I just finished my last class for the week and now my three-day-weekend begins. Economics is my most difficult class, and we have a significant amount of homework each night. I've gotten an A+ on all of my assignments so far, but the concepts seem much more difficult than at home. Maybe it's because I typically don't start my homework until 1am though? haha. Korean class is going well, that class is always very funny. Floris, April, and I just make jokes for 75% of the class but it helps us remember some things too. We've learned some basic words but are still working on the alphabet and pronunciation mainly. At this rate, I'm learning more words outside of Korean class per day than in class, but I think that's normal. Sociology is just sociology, and linguistics is just linguistics. My linguistics professor is very nice though and she often seeks my input in a lot of the discussions. 
Two new things that I have done outside of school happened both Tuesday and yesterday (Wednesday). On Tuesday, in the evening I went to Seoul to meet Mary after her classes. I told her I wanted to try Nakji, and since it is her favorite food she knew of a really good place to go. Nakji is raw, freshly cut-up octopus, that still squirms across the plate as you try to eat it. Click here to link to my photo album, where I posted a video of my food on it's plate. I think it's important to try everything, so that's what I did, but I don't think I'll be having it again. When the tentacles suction onto your tongue it becomes hard to swallow and the taste was rather bland! Luckily there was soju to wash down the slimy taste and kimchi pajeon which I ate happily instead. Also, as a late birthday gift, Mary made some homemade lemon tea syrup which is really delicious. Yesterday, Wednesday, was my first baseball practice. It was really nice but took me a while to get used to everything again. One of the guys spoke really great English, but had a distinctly Australian accent although he had never left Korea(?) and he helped me meet all the guys and get warmed up. We did some fielding practice and the coaches gave us some tips and there was lesson time too. I think I really need to buy a glove while I am here though to keep playing, they suggested getting one online. Our next practice is tomorrow morning at 9am, which I'm very excited for, but will have to come home early tonight for. Tonight there is another Friends Club party, followed by going to Janbeers, then Plan B, then TAO. All clubs across the street from Ajou, so we'll see how long I stay out. In other recent news, for about 2 days the dorms didn't have hot water, but now it's back. Also, not this weekend, but the following (March 24th-25) is the exchange student field trip to Saroksan! I can't wait to go and we're all hoping the weather will be nice. Almost all of us exchange students are going by bus and hiking all day and then spending one night there before returning Sunday. Since I am now in the routine of things and everything around me is familiar, I have stopped taking pictures so much, at least until the cherry blossoms start blooming. In the last week I've only taken maybe 20 pictures, and I've uploaded them in my album.