Happy National Independence Day to Korea & Hello March & Welcome Roommate!

The day started with class hunting around our beautiful campus. It was easier than we thought to direct ourselves with the campus map, minus all the hiking uphill and downhill and around buildings of course. However, it was a national holiday, so most of the buildings were closed and we weren't able to find the exact locations of our classes. I'm actually looking forward to hitting the books again having had such a chill and relaxing two months. I guess there's an extent to how much fun you can have before it starts to take its toll on you. I'll be living for the weekends and week nights though. Work hard, play harder.
Part two of shopping was designated at Dongdaemoon. I was jaw dropped at the amount of shopping complexes there were in this area. This place is typically known for their wholesale shopping, though they do have many boutiques and malls that sell at retail price. While finding our way around, we entered a building selling everything textile, fabric, and notions related; fabulous for Ann and I to keep in the back of our minds in case it was necessary to be revisited. Despite our initial excitement and yearning to round up some good deals, Dongdaemoon fell short of our expectations as there was so many people everywhere due to the national holiday (in general, there was going to be an extra large amount of people wherever you go on a holiday), the crammed boutiques had pretty clothes, but we were overwhelmed with the crowds and decided to come back on a quieter non-holiday day.

We rerouted and subway to Hongdae which was still busy, but much calmer as it was all outdoors. Teresa had never had the $1 waffle before so we started with that. We had planned to shop for about two hours before meeting back at school to go to dinner with the Emmaus group. However, fate was on our side and we ended up bumping into them while shopping. They had arranged the afternoon for the boys to play basketball and the girls to shop at Edae, which eventually lead them to Hongdae, what a coincidence! Due to the amount of people we had, it was easier if the group splited and ate at two different locations. My group went for Korean BBQ, and the other group decided on Japanese. The BBQ was more expensive than our usual dinners have been, but also one of the meals with more vegetables involved as lettuce was given to wrap our grilled meat.

School starts tomorrow and I have no school supplies. You know what that means!