Thursday, August 6, 2009

This morning's cafeteria meal was rice, kimche, rice noodles with carrots and sprouts, seaweed salad, and little round things that look like tator tots, but were made of some sort of grain. They tasted really good and even had ketchup for dipping.

Class was uneventful. We talked about budgeting today, which wasn't all that thrilling. For lunch I grabbed a crab roll in the food court. It was like a japanese crab roll, except it just had a little crab and cabbage inside the seaweed and rice roll. However, there was crab meat salad on the top of the roll and a drizzle of a sweet sauce that tasted like honey mustard. It also came with pieces of hot dog. That was random. Koreans love their spiced meats, like spam and hot dogs.

After lunch we visited Seoul National University Library. It was just like any US university library. They had a fancier check out system, but otherwise had all the same stuff we have. It was nice to see that not all the libraries are super fancy. When we got back to the university I went out to dinner at Healthy Food. I ended up getting spicy pollack that had been dried so it has a nice chewy texture. There were also the usual side dishes of rice, kimche and spicy veggies. When I got back to the dorm I had a strawberry yogurt popsicle and some sort of corn water. It tastes and smells like corn kernals. It's quite interesting and sort of grows on you as you drink more.

Tomorrow my class will be half over and we'll have Friday afternoon and the weekend for some site seeing. We're supposed to get the remnants of a typhoon overnight, but the rain should let up tomorrow morning. It hasn't rained since we've been here and I'm actually looking forward to it because it should keep the temperature down.