9:52
I have no idea if using a laptop durning a meeting is bad form, but.. um.. well it's here.
We just met the president of the college, Soongsil University.  Sitting across from me are 8 professors, including the president.
The ride here took about 45 minutes, all 11 of us crammed into a an extra long van.  My shoulders are killing me x.x
I missed breakfast, didnt' even eat any of my snack stuff since I wasn't hungry at the time.  Kinda regreting it now.  Especally since the snacks they gave us are those gooey, nasty rice things from before.
I'll end up trying one of them.. damn stomach.
So we're  going to be here for a few hours, until 1 or so.   Then we go over to the big shopping district for 3 hours, after a teahouse lunch.
I'm...kinda looking forward to it?  I don'tk now, sounds like its almost all clothing/shoes and the like.
President is talking about the history of the collge.. and it's a Christian university.  fff- (duh)
But that would explain why the first 5 presidents are white (they have a photo line up of them all above their heads on the wall)
btw, I'm typing most of this blind, keeping my eyes on the council, so my spelling is probrably worse than usual haha
Anyway, even though I didn't eat, overslept and am really not looking forward to this presentation, I'm doing just groovy after having a great talk with someone~ ^^
oop, time to take a group picture
Hah.. it's funny, Ginny and Jeanette always hand me their cameras when we do group shots.  I'm quite opposed to shoping up in the shots myself ^^)

10:15
Just watched their promotional video for Soongsil.  Apparently all freshment are required to take christian classes like 'serventship leadership skills'.  wait wut?
Reeeeally not for me..
Oop, time for Paraka's slideshow on KSu (I can tell he hasn't fixed it.  still lots of big words.  Even if the professors here speak english..
You'd think he'd be alot better at giving a presentation.  a ton of 'um' and 'uhh's and almost just reading off each slide.
ah well.

10:40
Waiting for the Christian studies proff to arrive at 11, so we're just mingling a bit.  Er.. They're mingling.  I'm typing this on a windowsil looking out at the courtyard. 
... I like what I'm doing better lol
I guess I'll go see what Kim is up to talking to the Comm department proff of here.
Nevermind that.  They're talking in korean, so nothing to listen into there.  I just walked around with my camera getting some b-roll of 'relationship building talks'.
It's a good thing I honestly dont' have to take another frame of film for this project.  I've gotten a whole lot already.  I'm just collecting lots of b-roll to use so far.  The hard part is gonna be doing voiceovers to explain it all.
At first
Got pulled over to talk to Kim and the Comm prof here.  Grad school takes about 3 years here, with scholarships paying between 50 and 100% tuition
I should be reading that paper while doing nothing...
and during the lecture...  >.>
which is the reason I actually brought the computer with me, not to do this log, but read that paper so I can TRY to get working on the paper.  I mean, I may be able to get just a bit of leeway about the late grade since I'm.. ya know.. here.
But it's hard to do anything when you get back to the hotel at night and feeling just wiped out.
Still find it ironic that a christian school has one of the largest engineering departments and one of the first leaders of science in Korea.. heh
Now the question: to film this.. or not.  Probablly not.

11:32
That wasn't SO bad. Basically you can sum up his speech like this: "there's a shit-ton of churches in Korea"  apparently 5 out of the 10 largest protastant churches are here in Korea.
He answered one question with 'buy my book on amazon.com for $15 hardback, just released in paperback form too"
So looks like we're heading over to christian musuem for 20/30 minutes then lunch
blarg blarg.
Oh.. and I ate one of those ricecakes..  squishy, streachy..  bland.
Jeff, Mandy, you're each getting one! >=)

9:00
Phew.  Today was actually fun.
We went around to Soongsil, did the presentation stuff, and the musuem tour for a short bit.  then hopped in the van and off to lunch.
More beef.  More of the same.
-30 mins later-
Gah!  Got distracted writing emails.  Sorry.
So!  What made this trip much more fun was our three guides from the university: 3 student volunteers that stuck with us all day.
YT, 'Bonnie', and Haein You.
I talked to each of them for a while, got to know 'em and had fun during the day.
After lunch, we headed over to the Ingdounsou, the Day Market.  Basiclly it's a massive set of alleys and streets selling all manner of things.  And once again, by 'all manner' I mean nick-nack souveniers, clothing, paintings and shoes.
Sooo.. yeah.. Me and YT hung out in the arcade playing gun-games most of the time.
Once we met back up, we all went to visit a palace a few minutes away.  Uphill, down hill, round hill.  The whole time the windchill is falling lower and lower.
Then we all tried to heal the frostbite in a tea house.  Had some kind of lemon-tea.. but not lemon.  Something just like it, but sweeter.  I have no idea.
Off to dinner!
Which was hosted by one of the guide's friends, a math professor and his wife (and 3 sons)
The food was really really good.  And it was fun to listen to everyone just talk about.. mm.. stuff.
The mid-son went off to cram school, the youngest refused to look at us, always playing the DS and not looking up when he came into the room) and the last.. uh... never saw him, i guess moved out.
Anyway, we were going to take the subway home.. but the wife offered to drive us back to the hotel in her van.  Which actually worked out perfectly for us.  Since we didn't have a gift to give them for hosting us at the time.  Then I remembered we had those two bottles of wine in my room from the Music Department when we got here.  So while they distracted/slowed her down, I ran up and got the bottles (using a fire extinguisher to prop the elevator open) and ran back down to hand it to her.
Oh, right. And it was only 5 of us, since Paraka had another lecture to give somewhere else after lunch, and Kim went with him... or just went to his parent's place again.  I don't know which.
Anyway, all's well that ends well and something like that!