It's the second day of orientation but it was a pretty short day in school. We reached the central square area at 0835hrs and it was totally empty. It was full of groups of local students drinking, mingling and playing games on the afternoon the day before- looked like they were picnicking! The main building is currently undergoing a facelift as you can tell in the photo. It's funny that they covered the renovation works with a large image to show what the building is supposed to look like. A speaker specifically highlighted this when addressing the auditorium as well.
There are many steep slopes within the school compound and this is just one of them which we had to take in order to reach Incheon Memorial hall. Usually slopes are quite hated but in cold weather I don't mind them as much. There's lots of stairs to climb in train stations too but it serves to provide daily exercise haha.
For day 2 of the orientation programme, we were given instructions on how to fill up a form for a Hana Bank account. Once created, they will issue a credit card which also serves as our KU student card. It will be ready in 3-4 weeks so in the meantime we will have to get a temporary barcode for access to the library and other school facilities.
We had lunch at a different canteen and the food was much better than yesterday's! A ₩5,000 coupon was given and we could pick out various items as long as the total price remained within that amount. And the amount of food we got from spending ₩5,000 left me totally stuffed and with a bunch of leftovers, even.
Returned back to the livingtel after lunch was done as I already had my SIM card/phone done upon arrival. We always walk by this very steep slope (I reckon it's 45 degrees) on our way to and from school and decided to show this to our friends back home. Their reactions were quite funny but it's also lucky that we don't actually have to use this slope to get anywhere so far.
My dinner time was spent with orientation group mates at a chicken & beer restaurant nearby. All orientation groups had a similar activity arranged and this particular restaurant I went to was entirely booked by KUBA. It was my first fried chicken meal in Korea so I was pretty excited to try out the food, since I loveeeee 4Fingers. Apparently 4Fingers is not from Korea itself though, since my korean buddy has never heard of them :/
Instead of chicken wings or drumsticks that we usually get from restaurants back home, we were served deboned chicken chunks. It was still tender on the inside and crisp on the outside. The reddish looking pieces come with a spicy glaze topped with almond bits. Very tasty! The chicken was served alongside rice (regular white rice or purple rice) and huge jugs of beer which resembled a barrel. Soju was available as well. We learnt various drinking games and got to know one another better :)
Here's a shot with those at my table! Most of them continued with the second stop for the night which was a soju place but I didn't join since I don't drink much.
After the meal, it was back to the livingtel after to enjoy some shows and to retire for the night :}