Arriving in Korea

It finally happened, I'm in Korea!

The flight went really well. My seat buddies were my classmate from GW and this really cool Texan who ran a Dunkin' Donuts' factory. He told us stories about hunting, bad girlfriends, alcohol-fueled adventures, and even started smoking his e-cig right on the plane. He was on the way to the Philippines to party for 2 weeks with his buddies. He's gonna get super fucked up.

At the airport I boarded the shuttle to KU which took about an hour. My dorm is on a huge hill, more like a mountain, near the main campus and downtown Anam, the neighborhood where KU is. There are a ton of bars, karaoke rooms and food places in town that I look forward to speaking broken Korean in once I look up restaurant vocabulary. It really makes me wish I could have taken an intro course at GW.

My first meal in Korea was super stereotypical : McDonalds. I went with my friend Shawn and we ran into another one of our classmates there. The Bulgogi burger is fantastic, but they don't have a dollar menu. However, 24/7 McDelivery. Step up your game, America.

We went to a bar afterwards with some other exchange students. Smoking indoors is allowed in Korea, and man do people chain smoke like crazy. These two girls split a pack of menthols at our table. I don't mind cigarette smoke, but my clothes are gonna stink.

This bar is full of exchange kids from all over the world. We met some people from England, Spain, Japan, Russia, Hungary, and some other Americans. It's also dirt cheap because they have insane happy hour deals.

I can already tell this semester is going to be great.