Currently my roommate and I are in our room at the very snazzy Hyundai Hotel in Gyeongju. This ranks up there as one of the nicest hotels I have stayed at. For some reason I had been under the impression this place was going to be like a hostel or something, and I couldn't have been more wrong. I feel like we're tainting it with our collective presence of like 120 college students.
Yesterday was the International Entertainment Night, and we performed a dance that goes to the song "Nobody" by the K-Pop group Wonder Girls.
We didn't win the grand prize of 150,000 won (no surprise, there were some GOOD performances last night), but it was okay, considering participation was mandatory.
Today was day one of our 3-day field trip to Gyeongju. Mostly we just sat in the bus for hours on end, taking two breaks at Korean rest stops, and also at a very nice restaurant for dinner. In the morning we stopped at a Korean Folk Village, which was supposed to be a replica of an authentic historical village, and it was nice, except for the rain which complicated things a bit.
As an aside, there is a cup sanitizer in the cafeteria back at SWU that fascinates me. I can't find anything online about it (probably because the pages I need are in Korean), but it's interesting. The only cups in the caf are thin metal, and when you get them out of this cabinet, they are warm and presumably germ-free. I should remember to take a picture of it before I leave. For how advanced America likes to think it is, we certainly don't sanitize our cups like the Koreans. Nor do we have high-def flat screen TVs in the buses for watching movies on long bus rides.
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