a quick update

I was walking down the street today when I encountered two pigeons and I was instantly reminded of San Francisco. Sometimes it's the small things in life that really bring you back home. Albeit.. small disgusting little things, but small things nonetheless. I miss everyone at home but I'm honestly having such a blast right now. I wish you guys were here!

I went to a place called "Doctor Fish Cafe" yesterday where for 8 dollars, you get a drink, some food, and you get to stick your feet in a pond where these little fish eat all of the dead skin cells off of your feet. Or someone else said, "They eat all of the bad stuff off of your feet." I'm not sure how discriminating they are(I mean.. come on, they might only eat the crud off of our feet because they have no other choice for food) but the experience was weeeeeird. It felt so strange having all of these little fish come up to your feet and just feed off of them. When I started getting used to the small fish, I felt a bigger set of chompers on my foot.. looked down and sure enough, it was the friggin' Shaquille O'Neil of feet-feeding fish. Ughhhh don't touch me. It was definitely fun though and hopefully I'll go back again.. and hopefully this time I'll be a lot less squeamish. It sucks because if you move around too fast, they die. So there were some dead little feet eating fish floating up at the top. Gross.

After Dr. Fish, we went to a super ghetto looking hole-in-the-wall bar and I had honestly one of the funnest nights in Korea so far. I got pretty drunk but don't worry. I never get TOO drunk, mind you! I can hang.. haha. I got to meet some cool people and so it was fun to be in good company.

Anyways.. I have to head off to school! Most of my classes seem good so far.. I took a placement test for my Korean classes yesterday.. it was uber difficult. SO hard. It had a speaking portion + a written portion and I don't think I did that well on either. I actually quit midway through because it was getting way too strenuous. I think everyone except for one person in my class gave up on the test. UGH. After the test, I met a girl.. who upon first meeting me asked me "Do you know how to speak Korean?" And I had to think for a second before I replied, "You know... I really don't know. I just took a test that told me that I probably don't." Eep. Hopefully I won't be in too low of a level class.

Anyhow.. I'm finding it really strange that this is slowly becoming my reality..