On My Way To Korea

There we go, I did my first MT and department MT in the same week!  We took buses out to Vivaldi Park in Kangwon which is apparently a famous resort.  I was surprised when some people I talked to about it knew what it was.  The two main attractions there are the ski slopes and the water park so there’s something to do year round.

We played a game where we ran around the park finding puzzles and solving them along with a few physical games in between.  The winners got something like 100,000 Won for their team to use in the mart for booze and food along with 10,000 for each person.  We didn’t win but it was fun nevertheless.  After that we sat down and had a mini concert by IU, December and 4men:

We left to have dinner and came back for a small presentation from Google and then had a question and answer session with the professors.  The questions were very different than what you might expect like asking the professor and his wife to tell the good and bad points about each other.  To end the night we went and bought the alcohol and food for the remainder of the night.  I started in a room with my group and professor Ian McKay.  After a while the room got really hot and there were way too many people so I went to another room with a friend from one of my classes.  Lucky for me that room had one of the groups that got the extra money so they had some special items =).  By 2 I decided to go to the room I would be sleeping in and hung out with that group until 5.  Somehow I woke up at 9 AM, but I ate breakfast and went back to bed.  We were one of the last ones out of our rooms and made it to the buses before they left at 11.

All in all it was a very fun experience!  I got to meet more people from my classes and department I didn’t know before and get closer with them through all these activities.  If you are or will be a student in Korea definitely ask your department when they will do their MT.  Here’s my pics: