Day 3 - First Day of Orientation

Well, today was the first day that I had to actually wake up early.  The first day of orientation started at 9 am, but I had to get up a little earlier to grab some breakfast with some of my floormates.  The first part of orientation was just a bunch of speakers telling us different things we had to do, the schedule for orientation, and other details about our time at Korea University.  After this, we had lunch in one of the cafeterias under the International Studies Building.  It was tempura fried pork with rice, crab salad, fried dumplings, wonton soup, and this small yogurt drink that tasted exactly like melted sherbet.   After lunch, we had to set up our Korea University emails and network login to use the school's wifi.  I did my registration on one computer but it froze right when i was going to confirm everything to be submitted.  So, I had to get on another computer to try and login, but it did not work. So, I made another login thing and when i tried to use that it would not work either.  So, I got another computer and tried to login with the new one I made, and it did not work.  Then, I tried to login with my original stuff, and it finally work.  It was good to get that taken care of.  After orientation, I went back to my apartment and relaxed for a while before going out with some friends in the apartment for dinner.  We decided to go get some Korean BBQ in Hongdae which is a district know for its young adult scene.  The way Korean bbq works is you pay a flat fee for all you can eat meat and sides.  The meat is all raw and 4 people sit around a grill that you grill your own meat to your liking then just take it off and eat it.  hey had some sides but the only noteworthy one were the seaweed and rice balls that were amazing.

After dinner, we were going to head back to the apartment but came across something we could not pass up, a cat cafe.  How this works is that you pay a flat rate (in this case was 8000 won or $7ish) and it comes with a free cup of coffee and a chance to hang with the cats.  The room was roughly 10ft by 15ft and lined with tables and stuff for the cats to play on.  There were probably 15 to 20 cats to play with.  The cafe only has like 5 rules involving the cats which were all basically to not make the cat mad.  

After this, we headed back to the apartment to hang for a little before going to sleep.