Entry 3: Defeating Jet Lag

I was conscious. How I dreaded knowing that I had woken up at an ungodly hour. The sun had not yet risen and I was sure that there were people that had not yet gone to bed. 2am. I had gone to bed the previous night around 7:30 by accident (and by accident I mean, I took out my contacts, I brushed my teeth, and collapsed on my bed, but it just happened to still be light outside kind of accident)so the fact that I woke up at 2am, isn't completely insane. So got out of bed, turned on my computer and watched Office Space. I then proceeded to watch a few episodes of How I Met Your Mother and talked to some people back in the States.

Around 5am, I went out for a run with my new nike+ shoes. I ran about 3 miles into the little area that surrounds the Kyung Hee University campus. I subsequently found this sweet little park that had pull-up bars, crazy exercise machines, and old grandmothers who were up around 6am. What a long and drawn out morning. Beautiful in so many ways, but by the time it had hit breakfast time I had already been up for 6 hours. Today was bound to be a long and drawn out day.

After breakfast, my roommate who by the way is a fitness freak (freaking ripped), wanted to check out the gym. As we start doing a workout, he gives me some tips on my form and helps me with some exercises. Knowing that I'm not exactly an expert on fitness, I gladly took the advice. It was a great work out, both tiring and interesting. After we work out, he explains that he had worked at Lifetime fitness as a trainer for a couple of years and that he majored in Kinesiology at school. "So you want to work out again tomorrow?"
"Heck yeah" I quickly replied. For the next three weeks, I basically am working out with a trainer. He really does help me with my form, its extremely useful having a knowledgeable workout partner.

Fun fact: 경희 University is known for Taekwondo. We were able to watch a full performance today during the opening ceremony. I was blown away by the sheer number of boards broken in ONE LEAP. It is somewhat hard to explain what kind of things they did but just think, backflips, kicks, roundhouse kicks, boards, apples, jumping off of other people, breaking boards 15 ft in the air, BLINDFOLDED BACKFLIP APPLE SMASHING KICKS. The guy that I sat next to explained to me how he was a black-belt in taekwondo, but had never seen anything like this performance. These college students perform for like foreign dignitaries that come to Korea. I'm sure they instill fear of going to war with Korea (I'm only half kidding, Korean people are freaking fierce).

The opening cermony was long but somewhat entertaining. The buffet that they served to us afterwards was ridiculously amazing, they had all kinds of sashimi, and other asian goodness.

Went out afterwards with Andy, Grace, and Tiffany. Went to Home Plus and got some stuff we needed and then went to Paris Bagguete and talked about a plethora of things. Relationships being one of them.

It is 11pm. I've been up since 2am. You do the math. Jeremy=tired. I don't even know if this post is coherent, but I guess this is the cost of being able to wake up at a normal time. Like 8am.

(drunk Aussie Koreans are lots of fun.)