So I had class again today. After having such a long break, one kind of forgets that that is how school usually works. The classes were pretty uneventful, except for the fact that someone (a Korean) actually sat next to me in one of my classes. They don't really do that unless it's the last seat in the room, which this one was not. So, you know, that's exciting I guess. I am fairly sure that he glanced over at me a few times. Not sure if it was the hair color or my long eyelashes that were so fascinating, but I was just impressed someone was brave enough to sit next to a foreigner. We're really not as mean and scary as they all apparently think we are.
In another class, I learned that professors from New Zealand also love a good ice-breaker to make an awkward class more - I mean less - awkward. We had to kind of work our way around the room and just chat individually with the other students in the class for three minutes a piece. To be honest, it was probably one of the least painful "get to know the class" experiences, so that's a bonus. And I actually ended up meeting someone who had been here last semester and knew someone else that I also know. The two of us, and a couple other people, ended up getting some coffee and sitting in a cafe on campus for a good two hours. I had to run off to yet another orientation after coffee. This time it was for the Korean language class that begins next week. Thankfully, it was really short, which meant I was free to do whatever I pleased with my night. Going to Emart again was clearly the obvious choice.
There were three of us who went. I can't say that it was a super eventful trip, but at least it was something to do. Afterwards, we grabbed a late dinner back on campus while nearly everyone else was getting ready to go out to some big club thing tonight. None of us were interested, so instead, we sat at a table in a little mini cafeteria and got extremely giggly. Apparently, we're all just tired and stressed from everything that's been going on this first week in Korea, and it resulted in us being a bunch of weirdo Americans eating dinner together. Not that we really cared because we couldn't really stop laughing even if we wanted to.
From then on, the three of us popped into each others' rooms, just because we wanted to see them. We ended up in my room, just chilling for a bit before we all decided that we very much just wanted to sit on our beds with our laptops. So off they went, and it's just been me in my room since then. So any expectations you had about my crazy Thursday night have now been shattered, but I don't know why you were expecting anything in the first place. However, it is technically the weekend for me, as I don't have classes on Fridays, so who knows what I'll be up to in the next few days.
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