As is quickly becoming our custom here in Seoul, we started our morning off with our hike up and down the hills towards the metro station Wangsimni (I actually remembered that without looking it up so all this Korean is starting to stick with me). We jumped on the train towards Incheon International Airport in search of a beach located just a short bus ride from the airport along the Yellow Sea. Over two hours after we left campus we finally made it to the airport, grabbed some food, recharged our T-money cards, and hopped on bus 306 like our directions told us. However, we jumped on the wrong 306 and found ourselves heading into downtown Incheon instead of in the other direction towards the beach. After we had already reached downtown Incheon a nice Korean lady asked us where we were heading as we looked very out of place on this bus. She laughed and knew enough English to explain to us that we had taken the wrong bus and had wanted to take bus 306 from the 3rd floor and not the 1st floor. By this time we had been traveling for over 4 hours and decided to simply explore downtown Incheon and make our way back to Hanyang instead of making another attempt at finding the beach. In Incheon we saw some interesting sights such as a traditional Korean dress store, a large church, and a few other distinct Korean architectures and made our way back to Hanyang via the metro, which we had coincidentally found nearby instead of having to take the bus back to Incheon International. Before too long we found ourselves back at Hanyang after getting off at a new metro station and exploring other new areas of Seoul along the way. After a quick hour in the air conditioning to cool back off, it was extremely hot and muggy out today, we set off in search of dinner across the river that runs near our dorms to the section of Seoul on the other side. We found a very traditional small restaurant and with the help of a very kindly old man-he was 78 and eating by himself and not looking 78-we ordered a very wonderful and surprisingly inexpensive meal. Tomorrow begins our first day of school related activities with a welcome ceremony followed by orientation and school tours.

traditional Korean dress store

Lights above the street across the river

stepping stones between the two walking/biking paths on either side of the river