Alright guys, it's been a while since the last update, but nothing really happened until late Sunday night when Colby got back from his trip from a traditional folk village. I was busy preparing a speech for a class, so I didn't go.

Colby, tell everyone back home about your trip!

Mkay.

I went with some friends from my KUBA group to a traditional folk village. It was a two hour trip south from Seoul, but it was nice to venture outside of the city again. The folk village was kind of like an amusement park, a history museum, and a renaissance festival all packed into one. It was amazing.

A traditional Korean 7-eleven 

A traditional Korean blacksmith

A traditional Korean method for making soy sauce

A traditional Korean flower

A traditional Korean outdoor decoration

I watched singing, dancing, and equestrian performances. We also got to play some games on an outdoor playground thing. I even got an old Korean lady to jump rope with us. We walked around the village all day checking out the different sites and relaxing. It was nice to take a break from studying and the hustle and bustle of the city. One of the girls that I went with turned the adventure into a video.

Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3HwrhldyEU

After the park we came back to the city and had dinner. It was some kind of noodle soup, and it was one of the most delicious meals that I've had on this trip. Maybe I was just starving and exhausted. Who knows?

Anyway, back to Luke!

Last week was pretty boring. Investment quiz as usual. My speech went...ok I guess. I didn't do what the professor expected I would do. He's always very vague on things, so whatever. I made him laugh though, so there's that.

On Thursday, we went to Itaewon to get some custom clothes. I passed on the clothing, but Colby got measured for a shirt. He will go back sometime this week to pick it up. Dinner that night was at the Mexican place called Vatos, the place that had the good tacos we mentioned quite a while ago. After that, we headed for Sincheon to a theater to watch Godzilla. On the way there, Colby and Huyen agreed that we needed to go to the subway on the left. Well, the subway on the right stopped and they decided that was actually the correct train. I ran onto the train behind Colby right as the doors were closing. The door closed on my shoulder, which I was able to get in, but the door had me by the ankle. I couldn't turn, but a random stranger pried the doors open to free my foot. Thank you random stranger! I have a fear of closing doors these days.

Anyway, we got to Sincheon, but the theater was a bit of a walk away. The theater was pretty nice, but it was in this creepy abandoned mall. We walked in the doors and found a big room that had barricades up to keep people from wandering into the dark hallways of the abandoned building. We hopped on the elevator and arrived on the fifth floor, which was a pretty busy movie theater. Talk about a change in views! We watched Godzilla. It was pretty good, the plot and acting was...meh, but I didn't go watch a Godzilla movie to watch actors, I wanted to see monsters kill each other and destroy a city. The movie was great based just on those criteria.

We did absolutely nothing on Friday. I worked a bit on a few of my projects, but that was it. I finished my part of my international business presentation on Netflix! I know, really exciting stuff!

Yesterday (Saturday), Colby and I ventured out to Dongdaemun again. We had spiral potatoes on a stick that were fried and covered in chile powder. It was heaven. We followed this up with desert in the History and Culture Park. Colby got some kind of chocolate milkshake and I got dark chocolate soft serve, which was amazing.

You could walk out on top of the roof of the museum. It was covered in grass and was a makeshift park.

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We walked around for an hour or two and then met with Martin and Huyen. We went to Curry House and ate some curry (who would have thought?!) We went and watched the new X-Men movie after that. I don't really follow the franchise, but I found it pretty enjoyable. We rushed to the subway since it was getting late. The trains stop around midnight, and it was 11:30. We didn't want to be stuck taking a cab. We made it back with plenty of time to spare though.

This was the curry. It is a fried pork cutlet with a rice omelette. Delicious!

Today was a boring day. It has been very cloudy for a few days now, but it just started raining this afternoon. Colby did some homework with our friend Min while I sat around relaxing. I should probably be reading some cases for my international business class or working on my paper for trade theory. Maybe tomorrow...

Anyway, less than a month until we get back. Finals week is June 16-20, but a few of our classes are having guest lecturers or student presentations for the two weeks before finals. It's hard telling how much actual class time we have left, but it's definitely not much! We also got some good news that our investments professor forgot about our term paper. Instead of reweighing everything, he said it was his mistake and gave us all a 100% on it. Considering it is the hardest class I am taking, that was a big relief. That paper was worth 10% of the grade and attendance counts for 10%, so maybe I will do ok. I just need to pass!