[Part 2] 13. Day 2 of school but it feels like Day 200 or something

Hi, so the title of this entry pretty much seems it up.
I was in school from 9am-9pm today with a few short breaks in between.

The Blue Room- the room for us GMBA students to hang out in since our building is pretty much used by executives from big companies in Korea, we should only study or talk loudly here.

The 1st 2 weeks of a new semester have always been slacked for me but this is ONLY day 2. Yet, I feel as though I’ve been in school for a long time. Back to the rigour of being a business school student where you have group presentations and projects and assignments due for almost every module. When the normal work load for a student is 15 credits a semester while I have 21.5.
But it’s alright…just slightly after a month, I’ll have a 3-day week.

Today started off with Organizational Behaviour class with a rather cool professor and it was more or less an introductory class. Lunch was spent with my Marketing Management group in the cafeteria of the Student Union Building where I had some pork dish for 2,500원. The pork was more like a side dish rather than a main dish and I was left hungry in no time -.-

I don’t recommend this dish.

We had some time left before our next class so we sat in the park and brainstormed for a new product for our project before going for our Ethics class which almost fried our brains for the next 3 hours. After class,  my group brainstormed again for another 2 hours before I had 1 hour of dinner break before my Korean class from 7 - almost 9pm.

3,800원 for 떡만두국 from the Korean Language Institute cafeteria

What a loooooooong day. I was actually contemplating dropping Korean class because I don’t welcome the extra workload and I thought that after a year of Korean language classes, I was done with studying Korean. But nope, I’m now in the advanced class with just 2 classmates haha. One’s a Korean who grew up in Canada while the other is a Korean-German. So if any of us drops the class, the class might be cancelled. But given that it’s a really small class, we get more individual attention and we get to talk about other stuff too. And I figured that while people have to pay to attend Korean classes at Yonsei, it’s provided FOC for us and we will be learning Business Korean too. So yes, I shall continue with Korean classes for the next 1.5 years.

Ok, I’m really tired and I haven’t done anything since my last class other than printing my notes.

National Day Reception tomorrow! It’s gonna be my first time meeting the other Singaporeans in Seoul :)

[Part 2] 11. Failed trip to Incheon

It’s strange how that period comes on the dot at a certain time.
And it came just before I was about to set off for Incheon.

I thought the first day shouldn’t be that bad but JUST IN CASE. I took 2 Panadols anyway and headed out. BUT the pain worsened by the minute that 1.5 hours into the journey, I had to get out of the train to get a seat on the platform where I winced in pain for a few minutes until I decided that I had to return to my room. There was no way I could continue travelling another 30 minutes more while standing on the subway and then putting on a nice persona as though I’m alright for the next few hours before making another 2hr+ journey back to my room. I was feeling feverish and then breaking out in cold sweat and hoping that no one would see me because the tears were coming down from the pain and I was pretty much in a very bad state. So anyway, I decided to turn back and so, I can’t meet Youngjin before he leaves for Canada to study for the next few years ㅠㅜ 너무 미안했어 ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

Well, the next time I visit my ex-tuition kid’s family in Incheon, I’m going on a weekday because there are shuttle buses between Yonsei’s Sinchon campus and its International Campus in Songdo, Incheon which is just a few minutes away from their place. And the next time, I will not travel far if it’s that period for me.

I guess the patbingsu for dinner yesterday was to blame. And then, maybe I was also hungry though I couldn’t differentiate between gastric pain and abdominal pain. Anyway, I figured out my stomach needed something hot so I went to Bonjuk for my usual mushroom oyster porridge before coming back to my room.

Last few hours of freedom before school starts! And then, my weekends will never be the same again until my next break.