I realized last night on my walk home that I am officially a moron. As I was walking to the meeting last night, a friend let me know that we had to be in Seoul at 9AM the next day for training for when we proctor the CFA test on Sunday. In that moment I thought nothing of it...walking home, however, I realized that I HAD TO BE IN SEOUL AT 9:00 IN THE MORNING! Hence, I'm an idiot. Any person with a bit of common sense would have come in the night before, but oh no, not me. I decided unconsciously, instead, to wake up at 5AM to catch a 6:15AM bus to Seoul. Who does that?!
I met Lindsey in the subway station which was a coincidence (almost said ironic instead of coincidence...but this does not qualify as an ironic situation) since she is the one that had called me last night and that I was supposed to be spending the night with. We wandered around for a bit trying to find the Fulbright building and found it with little difficulty despite the only 2 times we have each been there. There were surprisingly a lot of us considering we each were being paid a fairly nice sum.
Two hours of Mrs. Shim explain why our jobs of proctors is important, and we were allowed to leave.
So, we had a day in Seoul. What to do first? Of course the first thing to do was to find Omuto Tomato, an omelet place. While it may sound not incredibly appetizing, it was beyond delicious! It was my first time to ever go to one, and it was amazing! Ohm Rice...so omelet with rice and mushrooms! Others had sweet potato, chile, sausage, etc.
From there, we (Meghan, Amber, Kate, Min, Rosie, Emily, Alison, and I) went to....the horse track. This was again another first for me. I had not only never been to a horse track in Korea, I had never been to a horse track period. Meghan was our teacher of all things horse-track-betting related. We knew nothing! Now, I know...something. ^_~ However, I found that I should never actually place money on a horse, because the closest ANY of my horse picks came to first place...was fourth place. Haha!
From the horse track, we (Rosie, Emily, Alison, Amber, Laura, and Laura's friend from college) went to a Korean baseball game at the Sports Complex. Another first!^^ It was my first baseball game in Korea. We didn't know who was playing...we just new that we wanted to go to a baseball game. So, we bought tickets and found a seat (the tickets didn't have seat numbers). We didn't know what side we were going to cheer for until we found seats, then we realized we were in the LG Twins section. That determined who we would cheer for.^_~ The game was great! Our team was behind and they pulled ahead in the 8th inning. In the second half of the ninth inning, the Dusan Bears got homerun to pass us.ㅠㅠ Sadness...
After the game, I headed to meet Lindsey, Britney, and Amy who I was spending the night with near Anam station at a love motel.^_~ Gotta love love motels! Before we headed to the hotel, we stopped by a Kimbab Jeonguk so I could eat dinner...I'm thinking this was around 10:00PM or so. We spent the majority of the time discussing the recent protests throughout Korea. Pretty intense situation...and I have some pretty intense opinions about the current president. Perhaps we'll leave that for another time.
The love motel was nice enough...we had to stay near Anam and Korea Uni subway stops to get to Korean Uni at the buttcrack of dawn. Ok 7:00AM...that's close enough...
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