Everybody's got a hungry heart

I'm two days into my training right now, but I don't really want to talk about it. It's not horrible, but it's a ton of new information and very little time to learn it all. I'm not gonna go on about that too much though. I mean, it's just kinda rough, like I feel as though I'm not going to retain much of this stuff, you know? But yeah, I'm not gonna go on about it. Seriously though it's like trying to memorize a whole book in about four days, and the book is made of charts, and then you have to act out the book. But I don't wanna talk about that.

You know what's great? FOOD! Oh my god the food here though. It's amazing. Amazing and cheap. I've only been here three days and even with the cost of the plane ticket I think i've already broke even. I'm trying to sample as many different things as possible, although it's hard to tell what I have and haven't eaten based purely on the Korean menu. Lots of times I find myself pointing at just a block of Korean alphabet and hoping for the best. Sometimes I end up ordering the same thing as the previous meal but I honestly don't even care. Neither would you if you've ever had bibimbap, a word that looks like I just banged on the keyboard with my fist a couple times, but is actually a seriously amazing dish.

What does help is having some people around who either speak / read the language or have at least been here long enough to know where to go and what to order. Two of the people in my study group (which we're not gonna talk about but seriously why is it so much god damn information) brought us to a small Korean restaurant near the facility today which they had already visited a few times. At one point I was told, "Oh, you could order the squid here, but it's really spicy," and since there is basically no part of that sentence I don't love, this happened:

I'm not gonna become one of those people who photographs all their food but seriously.
Seriously look at that.

So yeah, everything I've eaten so far has been fantastic. Even random junk I've purchased from convenience stores. You ever heard of ramen? Correct answer: no you haven't.

I'm gonna wrap this up because I need to wander around a bit and clear my head. Gonna wake up super early tomorrow because of that thing I refuse to talk about that, for fuck's sake, what were they thinking? Also I have to get out of here because apparently every young couple in Seoul decided to pop into this cafe at 10:45pm on a weeknight and sit right next to me holding each other's faces. I swear I'm not making that up. They're just holding their faces. How is that a thing? It's sweet in a baffling sort of way.

I think I like it here.