so this weekend was crazy. the Ko-Yong games were amazinnggggggggg cheered the whole time. The cheerleaders just kept cheering the entire time im pretty sure they didn't even want us to watch the game and that the cheerleading was the main event and so we had to stand and cheer the WHOLE day because all the sports were one after the other (it was straight up from a harry potter book during the world cup quidditch match colored smoke, fireworks, mascots, seriously crazy.) and it was sweet because I was one of the few people that knew what was going on during the baseball game and we WON and it was great. We lost basketball and ice hockey but I didn't see those and we were winning rugby but at the last second they tied but i have no idea what was happening but it was fun to watch rugby then we won soccer and it was fantastic then the whole arena poured onto the field and of course everyone was still cheering and so we were having a cheer/dance off with the other school and it was fun. Then we went to the bar because the Korea University alumni pay for food and drinks all night at a lot of the bars on the street so I talked to a lot of them, the english professor and the bar owner and a lot of other people.
I chose the worst time to go to the bathroom because when I came back everyone in the bar was getting into a circle and these korean ladies were waving me over and smiling so I got in between straight up the entire alumni there was just me the american girl and we were doing all the cheers and they were impressed because I could introduce myself in korean and say where I'm from. It was so so so so so much fun.

Saturday night after the baseball game I went to a resturant because Luke one of the brittish boys turned 21 and so we went to celebrate at Fiesta then we went to Karaoke bar and the first, the FIRST song they played was wonderwall and I started dying of laughter. Oasis is the panty dropper song of the world. I left pretty soon because there was no way I was singing but over all it was a great great weekend. as per usual.

Today was fun, woke up after a night of scratching mosquito bites grr... then had a busy day full of classes. The first one was good the second one (art) was sooooo boring the teacher wasn't organized in her presentation at all. I just kept thinking about how bad of a grade she would get if someone was grading her. I volunteered with 2 other students to present something next week in that class... what I'm presenting I have know idea but I'm sure it will be fantastic. Then Korean was fun Caitlyn and I reminisced our first impressions of each other (hers was people asking her at the airport if she knew clare hubbard because I was missing then seeing me walk into CJ 4 hours later sweating and with two korean women) while simultaneously learning how to say what country we are from in Korean. After Korean I went to ROK-US relations class and the teacher is such a JERK. This boy had to present the first one presenting in the class and the computer was so old that it wasnt even connected to the internet so he couldnt get his power point and he had to improvise luckily he had a speech and wasn't just going to pull it from his power point but he also had his hard drive and computer but none of them worked on the computer at all and the teacher wasn't being nice or helpful at all and he hadn't even explained about the presentations at all but anyway we sat through that then it was THE WEEKEND WOO!!!!

Went to the cheerleading thing AGAIN, against my better judgement but the other school was there too so it was half blue half red and was cool, once again lots of jumping and waving and hand motions and stuff. There was also a playing of "over the rainbow"? I'm not sure why but it was kind of funny there was also a small dog running around the stage I was slightly afraid they were going to eat it but it was fine. Tonight we have the floor meeting then tomorrow I'm up bright and early for some sports watching!!!!!!!

Korea is legit crazy. and it is awesome. Last night I went to a concert last minute because our big Ko-Yon games are this weekend (Korea University and another university compete in 7 different sports all friday and saturday) and it was kind of like a get pumped thing but it was SWEET. I was there for the rock band, the ska band and the rap but I missed the hip hop but I heard it was like a DJ mix of popular club songs which would have been cool but it was out in the street and everyone was on teh roof of different buildings and out windows and all in the street and it was awesome. I was with a pretty big group and I LOVE hanging out with the exchange students they are all so cool. We also met up with two Korean girls who were explaining to us what was happening because everything was in Korean then we went to a bar called Bubble to have a drink. It was awesome.

Today was cool I woke up early and got the nice breakfast downstairs (it's 5,000 won which is kind of a lot for breakfast when I can stuff at a convenient store for like 3,000won). I was really feeling warm coffee because even though it was hot and I usually get cold coffee I just was really craving it and I got TOAST which is really nice to have warm carbs with butter on it with coffee and fruit and this rice with vegetables and bacon in it. CNN was on so it was nice to just sit and have a relaxed breakfast early in the morning with the news.

Walked to class and met a girl named Rachel who goes to UVA and I told her I had friends there. and the professor was being really funny so that was amusing. Then after that I caught up on some reading and I learned some cool stuff about Korea US relations then I met up with Elina for lunch and we had Indian food (haha AGIAN I sort of think I've had more Indian food than Korean... oh well!).

Then I went to Korean which is just funny I couldn't stop laughing for some reason probably because Caitlyn is really funny when we talk in Korean and the whole class is mostly lost all the time but it's just fun.

Korea-US relations is SO borring the professor doesn't even talk about the relation and his voice is SO borring and every time ANYONE tries to answer a question he finds something wrong about their answer or doesn't acknowledge it or something and I can tell it's really detering his want for discussion because no one wants to answer anything he asks and I don't blame them. I even tried to answer a question but that class is just weird I would much rather just read the text book but the teachers are hard core about attendance here. and also participation which is weird because they keep saying how Korean students don't like talking out loud in class so HELLO lets just not worry about participation.

then after THAT I went to a cheerleading pep band practice thing? Which was supposed to last for THREE HOURS!!! so I just peaced after one and a half yelling in Korean can only go on for so long and I already did that in class. They gave us pink plastic bags that we were supposed to fill with air and wave around and hit people and they are really into jumping with our arms around each other and clappign and swaying and it was crazy but I was tired.

Anyway things are going really well here and I'm really enjoying myself even in the boring classes

well, last night was eventful. There was a fire in the men's anam dormitory so they had to evacuate for 2 hours from like 11:45 to 2am and the internet is stationed there so none of us had internet until now.

Today's classes were fine, Korean is starting to put me to sleep because we're still doing the same thing but repetition is good for learning! Chinese Politics was ok except we just learned about Political Science and went around and said a short bit about ourselves and that one Chinese girl still scares me because she went over how she's an idealogy major and how she loves her country and her voice still sounds like she's big brother but maybe I'll get over it. Intense people are always entertaining. International Organizations was a little stressful because Barbara said she's had pressure in her chest and her heart is beating fast etc. for the past 3 days and I told her maybe she should go to the hospital so then I think she started freaking herself out more because she decided she needed to go to the hospital RIGHT THEN and so all class she was fidgeting and I was having some trouble paying attention but I walked her back to her room and now she and her roommates are going to the hospital I offered to take her but she got Caitlyn and another girl who knows a little bit of Korean and 4 is kind of a big entourage so I'm here in my room and need to catch up on some MAJOR reading that I didn't know I had to do for International Organizations.

peace

Tonight was fun, Milda and I bought Irina a cute little cake from a local bakery and brought it to her because she was on duty downstairs at the reception desk and we got to go in the back rooms and light a candle on it and celebrate her birthday properly (her friends got her a cake last night but she said they threw her piece in her face and then ate the rest of it haha.) then we gave the last piece to the Korean security guard and he was very thankful.

Also tonight I emailed to get a free ticket to the ASF asian music festival with all their awesome korean pop boy bands and girl bands like Big Bang, 2en1, girls geneation andddd lots of others! That's on september 19th.

Also I don't know if I've already said this but Elina's uncle invited me to make kimchi with them this year!!! so that is going to be a real korean experience.

awesomeness

The welcome party was very funny. Our two groups were down in the basement of a restuarant and they ordered us pizza from dominos but it was NOT american pizza at all. It was really really thin and also had potatos on it with other things. The other pizza had stuff like that too and I had a piece of both they were fine but not something I'd crave. I met another Chinese girl and more Koreans and the Chinese girl kept wanting to play games at the table she was very nice and I liked her a lot. I also met a girl from Australia who just arrived named Leah. She's cool too.

Haven't done anything today except a lot of reading for homework which is boring but oh well. Also today is Irina's (my roommate's) 20th birthday!!! yay Irina!

The weather is kind of gray but still humid. And I still want to watch tv.

Yesterday was pretty boring, read and did homework for most of the day then went to Itaewon with Milda and had dinner, Indian food again!

TODAY I woke up and decided I really wanted to go shopping so I got on the subway and went to the COEX mall. I made the mistake of going into the department store first, holy COW things are so expensive! So I didn't buy anything then I went into the actually mall where things were much much cheaper and I got a few really cute shirts and necklaces. I think my new favorite store is W&Double . They also have a store called bean pole which Elina told me is like the Korean version of a Jcrew polo hybrid even though they have Polo here but NOT jcrew grrr....

COEX also has a movie theatre and an Aquarium and I really want to go to the aquarium next time I go but today I couldn't spend too long at the mall because we have the welcome party for exchange students with our KUBA buddies. fun. We were all going to meet in one place but now they're like "ahh h1n1 we don't want to die" so they separated us to like 5 different locations. they are such babies.

My group is with group 5 (I'm 9) and we're meeting at some place called Fiesta? Except I think it's funny because they don't have F's in the Korean alphabet (the notorious gate F) so really if you read it in Korean it's more like Piesta. ha

Yesterday I got some crackers and peanut butter so it's fun to snack on those except the crackers kind of suck. well so does the peanut butter but it's the best I'm going to get so I'm not complaining. really I'm not

OK IM GOING TO GO READ MORE ABOUT CHINESE POLITICS NOW