Right Now I am on my way to the ski resort. The flight was very nice and took about two hours. Soul from what I saw on the bus is very clean and everything looks extremely new. It reminds me of Chicago, just with more lights. It has the bare trees, cold temperature and atomosphere of downtown Chicago. We have a four hour bus ride ahead of us so abunch of us are sleeping or doing homework. There are ten people on this trip Jason, Amanda, Jordan, Chris, James, Allie, Katy, Zach and Luke.
We just left the Yongpyong Ski Resort which was extremely fun. We had a rough start when we arrived there on Wednesday night though. We arrived around 11:30pm so we were all tired and looking forward to nice comfortable beds. When we arrived to our room, it had no beds in the room so we went back down to the lobby and told them. Well, we are ignorant, for in Korea they sleep on the ground. So we slept on the ground all three nights. The condo was nice though, it had a little kitchen, living room and a bedroom with no bed in it, just space for you to sleep on the ground. We had two condos since there were ten of us, so we had plenty of room. We received complementary breakfast every morning which was extremely good. It was a very westernized breakfast with eggs, bacon, toast, orange juice, milk etc.. I skied two days, which was a lot of fun. Since it has not really snowed yet in Yongpyong, they had man made snow and at all the lifts were open. Actually only about a quarter of the mountain was open. The mountain though is huge so we had trails to go on. I would love to come back here and snowboard when there is snow on the ground though since the trails are so nice. We had planned to stay four nights at the resort, but instead we decided we should go to Souel and stay there for a night, so we are heading there right now. We are staying in a hostel, I well tell you all about it once I experience it. Hopefully all goes well.
On a side note, I am getting really anxious to come home. I cannot wait to see you all (you all being family and friends). I am getting excited about Christmas and hanging out doing nothing. I am going straight from LAX when I fly in on Dec 10th straight to Pepperdine for about one night or maybe two nights to see everyone for a little. Then I will come home for about 5 days. After that I am heading up to Mammoth with my fraternity. I am already making plans haha.
So I am back in Shanghai. The trip was awesome overall. Going back to recapping our time in Seoul; Our two unknown roommates in our hostel were our age from Sweden (whom we talked with for about 2.5 hours), it was a lot of fun. We went into the city and walked the streets. Seoul, Korea in general, are very westernized. The music videos that play on their tvs are very similar to ours in the US (not rap videos though no girls on cars and stuff), there is actually a large portion younger people that go out, in China most stay in to study…., and Seoul had a ton of familiar restaurants such as Krispy Kreme, Forever 21 (for Chelsea), H&M, Starbucks everywhere and many others. We ate Korean bbq which tasted even better than it does in the states. The night concluded early since we were exhausted.
The next day we were up early and we just walked the city some more. There is not a lot of things to see in Korea. Tourists such as the DMZ and the tower take more than half a day to see. We left for the airport around 2pm so all we had time for is walking around.
I loved Korea
The last two weeks in Shanghai have been nuts. I had finals which meant a lot of studying. I also have some last minute things I want to do in Shanghai before I head off on Dec 10th, or two more days! Time flew by..:(
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