So I arrived in Incheon after a million hours of traveling which was hard enough, but then we (as in me and my friend Mike) had to go searching for some food in a a little town where English speaking restaurants were very sparse. I hadn't experienced this in years. For the last few years I'd either have a guide or been with someone who spoke the language i.e when I visited Sam, my Japanese speaking boyfriend, in Osaka. We ordered beer and chicken, a very traditional Korean meal obviously (or not). It was pretty spicy, which IS traditional of the Koreans I must admit. After a good night's sleep we headed to Seoul National University where I'll be spending the next 5 weeks studying. I met people from Harvard, Princeton, St Andrews in Scotland and
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