Yesterday was a day full of chaos, some bad chaos and some funny chaos.

I woke up, after a difficult night of sleep (it took me 2,5 hours to actually fall asleep for maybe 3 hours), quite early as some international students wanted to go to the immigration office around 8.30. I was planning to go with them, but I was too tired and too lazy to hurry up so I decided to go with the little group who wanted to go around 10AM.

The HI-club (Help & Information Club - they help the international exchange/visiting students with stuff for living in Korea, like.. "where's a nice karaoke bar?" :D) made a facebook group (this reminds me so much of the UM Psychology group!!) for the international students and we all post something if we want to go out that night or want to go some office or whatever. It's extremely useful, especially when you get lost easily (e.g. me on a road where I just need to walk the same direction for 500 meters and still get lost)  and you want someone to accompany you; there will always be someone willing.

But like I said, there was another group wanting to go around 10AM and via that facebook group we decided where to meet up: International Office. I got there first and filled in a bunch of forms, for the immigration office but also for the university itself. Just when I was about to finish them, the little group I agreed to meet up with came in and they all had to do the same. And when they were half way ANOTHER group came in, but we sort of left them as soon as we were done. (Sorry guys!)

We got two T-Money cards for me and Evee (that's his nickname, I absolutely love it, reminds me of Pokémon) and they have BEAST (kpop group) on it! Pretty cool, I'd say. We don't have public transportation cards like this in the Netherlands.

After a very rough bus ride (it felt so damn dangerous), we got to the immigration office. Well. This was just chaos, complete chaos. We had to get a ticket with a number on it. Okay fine, but then it really started. Middle aged women just come to you and give you their ticket (and you see it isn't used yet!) and you think; oh great! I don't have to wait forever! At first, that is.

Dyllan, Sam (this is her nickname, I keep forgetting her real name -.-) and I got the earlier numbers because of the middle aged women and split up with the part of the group we went to the office with. They had quite late numbers and had to wait for around 2,5 hours. We were at the immigration office for a foreign registration, also an 'Alien Card'. (This makes me giggle every time.) For this, you need an application form, a certificate of enrollment, passport, 10.000 won (around €6!) and a passport picture with a white background. I had a passport picture with me, but the background was a bit blue-ish white and Dyllan and Sam just didn't have a picture. As we tried to figure out how the photo booth worked (an American man actually helped us!), Dyllan and Sam missed their number..  I quickly got my picture taken (terrible picture, I must say but I was in a hurry) and looked at the screen for my number.

It was almost my turn, #2221 would show up in just a few minutes! Nope, it didn't. It went from 2220 to 2222. What the... "What did I do wrong in my past life?!" This became the running joke of the day. The word 'skipped' was used more often than usual. Of course. So in the end, we got new tickets with new numbers and had to wait as long as the others. Even a bit longer. In total... I think we spend around 3 hours at the immigration office just waiting.

Oh well, it was quite funny when it was finally my turn, I turned in all the documents and had to get my fingerprints read. It was difficult. The reader couldn't read my fingerprints. Even the officer said: "This is quite interesting to see." My fingerprints are quite unusual! So... am I really an alien? Well, I guess I'm applying for the right card then!

Afterwards, we went out for lunch and I just have one thing to say about the entire lunch: I got an entire chicken in my Korean Chicken Soup. Thank you, but no thank you, Korea. How does one person finish this?! It was pretty good and all. It even had some rice in it, just like how I eat it at home but the huge ass chicken in there, just.. wow. Also, it isn't quite nice to have five pieces of chicken bones in your mouth when you're trying to eat. I should have taken the bibimbap.

Then we decided to go home, but seeing as I live in another dorm than the rest of the group, we split up and I went to the bank first. The man who helped me has a funny giggle. He asked me: "do you want 50k bills, or 10k bills?" and I said it doesn't really matter. And then he giggled. I don't know what was so funny, but his giggle made me giggle. Giggle giggle giggle.

In the evening, someone from my building (the boys side) asked people on the facebook group if they wanted to go out. Well, we went out for dinner (yay for chicken!) with 24 people in total and the Germans (and a few others, but mostly the Germans totally living up to a stereotype? :D) ordered around 6 x 3000cc of Cass beer. Well. I cheered with my water! "Cheers!" "Water~~~" And even after Stefan went all "BEER BEER BEER BEER BEER BEER BEER BEER BEER!" at me, I still said "Water~~~~~". It was fun to meet so many people, but they were really loud and afterwards they wanted to go to another bar/club called 'Tank' but I went home with Ami (a really sweet Japanese girls that lives one floor below me!) seeing as we were both quite tired and not really party people.

When I got back to the flat, the lights were on and there were even a few more pairs of shoes at the door. My roommates arrived. Three Chinese girls. The flat across of me is occupied by four Chinese girls. All these seven girls know each other and here I am, the Dutch/Indonesian girl who feels pretty insecure and just strange being surrounded by so many Chinese people (don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Chinese people, why would I). And they keep talking in Chinese to each other and of course, I can't understand anything. Makes me feel a bit left out and it gives me a really uneasy feeling. I'm already in a strange country and I can't understand people on the street all the time. I don't want to have that in the place I should call my house/home.

It was a hectic day and the next day, which is today actually, I had Orientation day. Nothing really special happened, we mainly got information about the deadlines and dormitory and the HI-club, but I still had fun! Oh wait, there was one special thing: Stefan showed up in LEDERHOSEN. Oh my goodness, why?! Nora was already like; okay, I'm not German anymore if anyone asks. Next to that it's also been raining all day so the campus tour got cancelled. Hm, you would've thought I could avoid the Dutch weather in Korea...

Anyways, it's been a long post and two long days and I've noticed I'm cutting a lot of details and just rushing the more I get to the end. Sorry for that, I'm just tired. I'll log off and just go to bed. We might be going to Myeongdong and Yongsan Electronics Market tomorrow.