The past week at a glance

Fall semester has begun!

Classes have started! Today I went to my first classes at Yonsei University. The first was a basic Korean course that I think will be helpful to understand this language! Thought it's veeeery basic. The teacher seems nice. All the students in the class were exchange students and I tagged along with a Finnish, Dutch and American student for lunch afterwards. It might also have been the cheapest lunch I've ever had... like 12 SEK for ramen. After lunch I went to the next class "Introduction to Korean studies", but no professor showed up. I decided to go home but when I got off campus I got a message saying that the teacher had arrived. He had accidently mixed up the times so that why he was late. That class will be super interested but with a lot of heavy reading. We are going to read a lot of works by Korean authors and other historical texts about how, when and why Korean has become Korea. Very interesting!

This is a part of Yonsei's beautiful campus

They also had huge speakers that played music!

A new friend

We have made another Korean friend! His name is Jason and he studies at Yonsei. We met up with him today and had a great time discussing cultural differences among other things. :)

Jason snacking on some Swedish sweets

My friend Harry Potter

Sunny SInchon and organic supermarkets in Yeonhui-dong

Today me and Elin went to Yonsei and I purchased one of my course books "What money can't buy" after we'd been lost in the Yonsei bookstore for ages. We walked up to Yeonhui-dong after that and went into a huge supermarket with tons of organic food. We stocked up on fruits mostly (tomatoes mmm) and then walked home. Since it weren't that late we went down into Hongdae and had some coffee at Oppa coffe which we'd walked past a couple of times and found interested. I also bead Elin in wordfeud while we enjoyed our iced beverages. I'm on a hunt for a blue hat but Hongdae didn't deliver today. Hopefully I'll find one soon!

I only took a few pictures today, but here they are

Lunch at Loving hut again

SInchon

Sinchon

Exploring West Seoul

Today me and Elin went exploring. We started out by freestyling our way to Yonsei University. After we managed to scout our way to most of the buildings where I will have lectures we went to Loving Hut, a vegan restaurant in Sinchon. Mmmmm! After our lunch we went south and walked all the way to the Han river. It was cloudy and warm. It seems Seoul has a lot of outdoor gyms as well. And old people play croquet here.

Picture time!

Sinchon-ro

Elin :D

Yonsei University

Looking pretty

The prettiest store

Sinchon

Every building looks different here in Seoul

Han river

Rosecutter

Tour de France

Trane

Looking over the river to ???

Han river

Apparently South Korea likes ships

A well deserved fika