Entry 2: Early Bird Gets Really Tired Around 6pm

The tour coordinator took the microphone from the tour bus driver. He tapped the microphone twice to make sure that it was on.

"This tour will not teach you anything about the real Korea. This tour is bullsh*t. The real Korea comes out at night. Let's try to have some fun."

The entire bus was laughing, obviously. Woon, as he told us to call him, was a pretty awesome tour coordinator. We went to this lame amusement park that just had miniature sized buildings, such as the Taj Mahal and the Sistine Chapel. It was pretty lame, considering the fact that, Legoland was cooler. After Ainns World, our tour bus was then taken to Wolmido, pretty much a oceanside pier. It was much more interesting than the amusement park, since this place actually had rides and some pretty awesome stand food. This was Korea, I'm sure that people would love to have had gone to a bar instead of going to Wolmido (people drink like fish here... well I guess everywhere, but its more exacerbated here since we are in Korea, and the culture does not have that much stigma against drinking), but nevertheless this was Korea.

Rewind 13 hours:
4am. I can't sleep. After talking to some people online, I went to explore the campus and the city. Two hours of walking around in the serene morning calm was a very soothing experience. No one was out, no one was even awake, the streets were empty allowing me to take pictures in the middle of roads. It was a side of Korea that I did not expect to see. One of the shop workers was opening his store and tried to start a conversation with me in Korea. Thankfully, I didn't make a fool of myself. I explained to him that I was staying at the university and was going to teach english. I left before the store worker decided to use words I didn't know or expect me to say something that I didn't know how to articulate. It was a good morning.

Fast forward 14 hours:
"GRACE!!!!!"
Grace made it safely to the campus. Training starts tomorrow. Pictures are posted on facebook. I need to stay awake for another three hours, and maybe this jet-lag wont pwn me.