10:54
Sitting here in the lobby just waiting for the guys to get down here.
I walked over to the bank to try and see if they had any currency conversion thing there.. and totally got shut down  lol
None of the tellers even looked up at me. There was one of those 'take a number' systems... and no place to take a number.  So I sat in the little waiting lobby thingie for a few minutes.. and they still didn't look up. :\
It was a bit too busy to just walk up to a teller and sit in front of them.  That and it's kinda rude ^^

11:00
Still waiting on two of them.
The bus is sittin' outside waiting too  haha
We have some thank you cards that we all signed now.  And Dr. Kim drew some.. thing on it lol

2:10
The conference/seminar thingie just started. I set up the tripod with the minidvd and my camera sitting on the back of a chair.  ghetto, but it works... I hope.
So before we left Kim and I went to the bank where I finally got some money.
Good news and bad news.  Good news: It wasn't the van from yesterday, with the (literally) butt-throwing shocks.  Bad news: it was a minivan.  So me, Kim and the driver were all squished up front.
First to a small, high(er)-end restaurant. (Think Frankie’s back home)
Finally found something I really enjoyed eating.  Ironically, chicken.  A soup made of a whole (small) chicken, boiled in chestnuts, plum, acorn and rice soup.
Then off to Kyungnam University (the place that's been driving us around to all these place since we arrived).
The students were all laughing and even a few having snowball fights.  At first I was thinking, 'I wonder if we would have fun like this at Kennesaw..?'  Then remembered if there's even a flake in the sky, school is closed, so.... no. lol
First meeting was the office of international affairs, where KSU's fancy formal certificate.  This was the first time I set up the minidvd camera and tripod.  Not knowing how long it would go on, of course I used the low setting to give me an hour of record.. making it look like a freaking webcam.. on 56k. Turns out it only lasted about 10 minutes.  So then we went upstairs to the roof to look at the scenery around.  While the roof was half-snow half-slush, it was still very pretty to look around the mountains covered in snow.  But one thing bothered me during the meeting, the window was open and music kept floating in.  Turns out they actually have music playing from loudspeakers all over campus.  I asked the driver why and he said that they pipe news announcements during lunch.
Like I said, they just can't escape their pop music in Korea... or.. -I- can't escape it.
Then as we were getting back into the car to go up the hill.. I.. um.. accidentally closed my door on the FA president's fingers.
..
It's not my fault!  He was leaning into the sliding door to tell all them goodbye as I was climbing into the passenger door.  Tried to close it over my shoulder.. and didn't know he was supporting himself on the doorframe x.x  Thankfully since I had a bad angle, I couldn’t use too much force.
Worse, I left my hat in the office ;.;  So way too awkward to go back and get it..  Hopefully the driver will pick it up before we leave.
So.. um.. right, new topic!
The snacks they gave outside are.. scary.  bottled water and juice as normal.  But something you'd never see in America: oranges.  And some pre-packaged little.. cakey things.
The purple one is a kind of rice-paste with nuts.  Tastes.. ech.
The yellow is like yellow cake.. without any sugar and half glue.
I asked Driver at lunch if Koreans actually have any sweets or the like.  He said: (big shock) no. They like salty, hot and spicy food.
Ffffff-
The presentation right now is about art history in Korea.  Kinda fun.

4:29
Short break time.
The next presentation was about North Korea, policies and strategies in how to deal with.  It was.. politics as usual.  Even though I was dozed out through probably about half of it.  Do I feel bad?  A little.  But the auditorium started to fill up a little with students through the presentations.  I don't know if they're here for a class or extra credit, or if they're actually interested by this.  I don't remember what the next one is-
gah.  Paraka asked if I recorded the North Korea one.  I told him I recorded about half of the art one, but not this one.  He might've thought it was 'incredible' but honestly, who's going to watch it but him (and political science majors)?
Oh well.  Maybe I'll record the next one.. maybe.

4:51
Uuuuugh.. Now I'm annoyed.  Obviously I should've recorded the N. Korea one.  The auditorium is mostly empty again.  All the students were here for that one, didn't come back after the break.
Oh well. I do stand by my decision.  It'd be nice for them to have recorded, but it's not useful to my project.  It's dry, hypothetical politics.  That and it was like an hour long.  I got maybe 3 minutes of it to use as B-roll. Just like the others.  Although I plan to record Paraka's speech after this one.  (since it isn't given in Korean first, then translated)
Oh, and this third presentation is about... um.. an old woman who's husband was kidnapped.. or something and how it became a book and TV drama...??  I honestly have NO idea.
Oh hey, a few more students came back.

5:37
Okay, not making the mistake this time. While the dvd only recorded the intro and first two slides, mine is going to record the whooooole thing. I'll turn the dvd back on for other things involving KSU.  After all, I'm going to spin/pitch it like a promotional video for 'all the things KSU is doing to strengthen relations abroad' or something.  So what better than 'talk about yourself!'?
If I remember right, there's a reception after this?  I'm not looking forward to it much.  Unless it's a sit down dinner thing. If they're expecting the 'mingle amongst yourselves', it ain't gonna happen.  Not with *counts* 20 people not including we 7.
But lord only knows when that'll be.  Looking at the print-out, Paraka has 40-some slides!
And he's written them to present to a college audience.  An English speaking one.  You can tell the translator is having to think of creative ways to explain the stuff he's saying.
Ugh... I just wanna go home and nap.

8:27
Okay, so there wasn't a meet-and-greet type thing.  We just went out to dinner with a few of the other teachers.  Korean BBQ.  But not really.  It was called bouu-chu(?). It was a beef soup.. that was sweet!  And delicious! (for those that don't know, the only beef I like to eat are cheap hamburgers).
Then there was an extra meal (main course??) of either cold, spicey noodles, or wanton soup with rice.  Most of us got the wanton soup.
It was a pretty fun dinner.  Just made some chit-chat, mostly with Driver... who I now feel bad I can't remember his name.  Why couldn't he have a simple one like Lee from yesterday?  Inconsiderate jerk.
Oh, and remind me to take some pictures of the swag I got from the university.  A little gift box of stuff they gave us all.
My head is kinda dizzy from being up for a while, just thinking about bed.. It may be harder than a slab of bedrock, but it's still bed..
Although I found out that couch is more comfy.. Maybe I'll take the cushions off the love seat and use them instead?
I get the feeling I'm forgetting something.. but have no idea what.  Well, obviously or else I wouldn't be forgetting it.
Eh.  Can't be important.
Tomorrow we're leaving around 9 (Driver kept staying 9 10 as if it mattered so much..) to go to the island that the presentation from before was about.
The old lady that... did.. um.. stuff.....
Right.
Joy.
*Sigh*
And I gotta start working on my research paper damnit!  but reading those articles is just SO dry...
I'll do it in the morning.  If I wake up at 5 again, I'll have plenty of time. haha.

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