I just can't get enough of this city.

At Gyeongbokgung Palace!

Hey again everyone! So I better make this quick seeing as I have only a few minutes before I take off for Yonsei University, orientation and classes starts today and I am beyond pumped! Our days are absolutely jam packed and by the end of each evening I'm absolutely exhausted. Around 10 o'clock last night a few friends and I were gathered in our room and we were just hanging around the room laughing at the bad Korean soap operas on TV and sampling Korean rice wine (note to self: you get what you pay for, 3500 won - aka $3 wine = not even worth it, even the store clerk laughed at us). Needless to say though, after only a short time together we were all nearly keeling over from exhaustion so we all crashed pretty early.

Yesterday was amazing, we had a really delicious lunch in downtown Seoul eating some type of chicken soup. I did my best to conquer it with metal chopsticks and had a great time just hanging with friends: that's Mihir and Anna (my roommate!) below having a toast with what they tried to pass off as "Korean Wine" but was definitely vodka.

Our meal below:The rest of the day we saw the beautiful Gyeongbokgung Palace (as pictured above), had a quick visit to the Korean War Memorial, which is actually the biggest war memorial in the world with over 9,000 artifacts. We wandered around at a market for awhile, which sadly I still haven't found a place to exchange my US bills, so me and my friend Sara (below) just sauntered around. It was here that we were approached by some Korean middle school girls in ridiculously awesome outfits who were apparently running for Student Body President. They asked us to be in a promotion video they were filming, then gave us free candy and took a picture with us, it pretty much made my day.

Dinner at an offical Korean restaurant later that evening was delicious, we removed our shoes and tossed them into a pile of 75 others (causing chaos while trying to find them later), sat on the floor in the traditional style and ate lots of kimchi, bulgogi and rice. Oh and hey! I'm even getting better at chopsticks! Below is Chris, Ben and myself.

I should probably wrap this up right about now seeing as I'm about to take off, the weather is a little miserable over here, cold and wet and it doesn't look like it's going to improve, but that doesn't keep us all from having the time of our lives. If I don't fall dead into bed right away tonight like I did last night I'll try my hardest to update you again before the day is done!