Midweek Update


Sorry for the delay, I should update my blog (diary) more often. The hard part is, I don't like just writing about what I do each day at school. I'd like to write more about Korean society, culture, landscape, or things that my readers are curious about. If you have an idea for me, please leave me a comment and I will be very happy and inspired to write about it. 


Sunday was a nice and relaxing day, but I made the mistake of staying out (and spending way too much?) with a nice group of us at a bar. Before that I ate some nice Galbi for dinner. I'm getting much more proficient at cooking it on the table, some would even mistake me for Korean. One strange thing from my Galbi dinner was, since your clothes smells like Galbi once you leave, you are offered to get Febreeze sprayed on you as you leave, I declined, I thought it was strange and I like my clothes to smell like cooked meat, I'm a man. On Monday I had all my classes but was a bit out of it for the first two. Monday night I went to my regular neighborhood dumpling house. Instead of going the steamed route I decided to be daring and get fried kimchi and pork dumplings instead, good decision. Yesterday I got to sleep in before my 10:30 class. After class I just had lunch in the dorm cafeteria. I'm really becoming hooked on the dorm cafeteria's "Western Meal" everyday for lunch. For 3,000won you get a fried pork patty with sauce on it, a cabbage salad with strawberry dressing, rice, and kimchi...haha really "Western"? One problem I've had lately though is, (especially due to AGA and Friends Club and Baseball) when I am at the cafeteria a lot of people wave and say hi to me but I have the hardest time remembering who they are. I mean some I know I've seen before but after we say "hey!" I am often left confused. After lunch I met my group-mates for my Linguistics class project. Imagine this, I walk into a library full of over 100 Korean students...how was I to find my group?, I had only met them once before. Luckily after studying the crowd for a good 4-5 minutes I noticed a group-mate waving at me. Korea is obviously a very monotonous population (99.6% of the population is ethnically Korean) and I'm getting better at distinguishing people and applying names but it's still tough sometimes. Yesterday evening we had the orientation for our trip to Saroksan and Seokcho this weekend! It should be a blast! A lot of students from last semester were complaining because this semester Ajou is not providing the alcohol for free and yet the trip costs more. It will be a very busy two days and I'm excited to go! No one will sleep, I'm sure of it. After the orientation 5 AGA members and 6 of us exchange students went to a good dakgalbi restaurant. Dakgalbi is chicken Galbi, unlike the regular which is beef. Dakgalbi is known for being spicy and the heat was great. The dinner was nice and it's fun to find new places near to campus. Everyone else went to Plan B last night but I came back early because of my 9am class today. This morning I went to class, duh, then went and bought my Ajou jacket that should arrive on Friday. It's dark blue and says Ajou on the back in Korean. For lunch April, Imane, Kelsey, and Elanora went to this really hidden restaurant that is in a really shady place but tastes great. I was craving an omelette so I had one, stuffed with fried rice, pork, and chicken. Today the weather was so nice, sunny, in the low 60's, so a few hours later I went running and just came back to my room. I have lost 17lbs in total since I have been here and only one pair of my jeans fit well now so I hope it gets warmer soon. The end.