Day 2 - Campus Tour and Snacks With Vice President Kim

Tuesday, May 8th  was our second official day of our GCC Field-Site experience, but my 5th day in Korea. It was also our first day of classes, so we spent our morning chatting with students from NCHU in Taiwan. It was nice to get to talk to them again because we haven't had the chance to in about a month. After that we finally got to meet our partners at Seoul National University for the first time which was really exciting! Everyone seems to get along well with each other and our partners seem eager to talk to us and to get to know us. We spent about an hour with them in class and then a lot of students went out to lunch with their partners to get to know them better.

After lunch, we went on a campus tour of the beautiful SNU campus. The tour was really good, especially because it was led by student ambassadors from SNU who seemed very knowledgeable about the campus and were willing to answer all of our questions that we had about the college, life as a student, about Seoul, and even personal questions.

Following the tour, we had snacks and a brief presentation by Vice President Kim about SNU's opportunities for study abroad and how they are collaborating with top universities around the world. There were also more student ambassadors at the talk, so we were able to talk with them a little bit and were invited to join a "Halloween In Summer" party this coming Friday. It sounds like it is going to be a lot of fun and will be a great chance for us to meet some other SNU students.

We ended the day with no-rae-bon later that night around 9:30 pm. It was a lot of fun and we all had a great time. Unfortunately, some of the students on the trip were sick and still experiencing jet-lag, so not everyone was able to make it. However, I am optimistic that we will do it again soon with everyone in the program and hopefully with some SNU students as well :)

Us at the entrance to Seoul National University!