Orientation/ Anam Area

Today was the first day of exchange student orientation. They grouped us up with our KUBA group. My buddy Cecilia was there along with the other two buddies Melisa (from Peru) and Rika (from Japan). Us four are then part of group 1, which has about 8-10 KU buddies, each with 3 or so students. There are 8 of these large groups in total.

In the morning there were presentations telling us about the university and the KUBA program and such. Then it was lunch! We all ate in the cafeteria and had our choice of Korean dishes. I had a sort of pork main dish with onion that you could dip in a salty sauce and wrap up in a lettuce leaf (without the leaf). There was also side dishes of salty/sweet noodles, kimchi, soup, and rice. It was all really delicious! (Sorry, no picture. Maybe tomorrow!)

Then in the afternoon they set us up with KU emails, helped some students buy Korean cell phones, and then we finished off with a campus tour.

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Here are a couple pictures just showing what Anam, the area around the university looks like. It is mostly buildings catered towards students so there are lots and lots of coffee shops. The picture below is a typical sort of building where there are shops on 2 or even 3 floors. Pretty much all the buildings in Seoul have the first 2-4 floors for restaurants, shops, cafes, conveniences stores, etc. and then the rest of the floors as apartments.

Also notice the Subway (sandwich store) and the hill!

This next picture is of the road I take from the subway station all the way up to CJ House. The first 600m or so are more shops like the other picture, and then the last 400m are residential area/ hill. I counted 11 coffee shops on the 600m stretch of this road (but I probably missed some too; especially if they were on the second story), so like I mentioned before: a lot of coffee shops!

Here is a picture I took at the GS25 convenience store: KicKer chocolate bars! I can't tell if this is engrish (aka bad translating) or just a knock off of KitKat. Either way, it's pretty funny.