Hey there! I have quite a bit of catching up to do so I thought I would start with the opening ceremony we had on Tuesday. We are staying on the Korea University Sejong Campus in Jochiwon, so we are about 90 minutes south of Seoul. Tuesday morning we headed up to Seoul to the ministry of Education. They introduced all the Presidents and other important people(honestly that was pretty boring) but then they had an awesome show prepared for us. They wanted to introduce us to Korean culture so first we listened to a cute Korean Children's choir. Then we saw the Pangut. That was really interesting and consisted of four people, one playing a very weird sounding trumpet thing, two playing drums, and one guy who sort of did ribbon dancing with his head. It was really good and captivating to watch but kind of long and said weird trumpet thing got old pretty fast. Ok, then came the good part, the K Tigers. They are a professional teenage Tae kwon do group and they were amazing! I've never seen people jump/kick so high in my life! I'm going to try to post videos of all these things so hopefully it will work so you can see which one you like best!
After the ceremony we went to downtown Seoul and were dropped off at a famous palace that starts with a G but I still can't pronounce it. We broke into teams and began a picture scavenger hunt. They gave us about 11 famous places in downtown Seoul we had to find and take pictures at within about 2 hours. That was also really fun! I don't have any of our group photos but when someone sends me one I will post it on here. It was hilarious because there were about 300 of us in very attractive lime green t shirts wandering around trying to figure out where these places were. Luckily a guy in my group spoke Korean so we were able to get to all the places without getting too lost. It was a long, and extremely hot, but very fun day. A good way to get us all ready for classes!
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