First day of classes and Seoul City Tour

Yesterday was the first day of class and we set off up the hill and across campus to the School of Business in which most of the classes are being held. My first class, History of Korean Culture, which had been incorrectly named in the program guide as Korean History and Culture, is taught by an older gentleman who was originally from Michigan but moved to South Korea 30 years ago. He spent most of our first class having us introduce ourselves and introducing himself to us. He then spent the rest of class discussing generally what we would be covering in class and the location of Korea on a map-it wasn't a very productive class but should prove to be interesting as he has promised that his goal in this course is to teach us interesting and useful information about Korean culture as it actually pertains to tourists. After an hour lunch break I moved onto my second 3 hour class of the day, Crisis Communications. This class was interesting during its first class and should hopefully continue to be so for the next 14 classes.
Today we met up with a large number of the program participants for a Seoul City Tour. We first went to the Blue House which is the home and office of Korea's current President, their first female ruler in over 1000 years. We then went to the Gyeongbokgung palace which is an extremely old palace from the 1300's which was actually destroyed during Japan's take over of Korea and rebuilt later in an effort to conserve South Korea's history. At this time it was already 12:30 and so our tour buses brought us to a very large restaurant where they had prepared for us a traditional type of chicken soup in which an entire small chicken is stuffed with rice and boiled in the soup and served whole. It was really quite delicious and energized us for the rest of our trip. From here we went to an exhibit about King Sejong who created the Korean alphabet and worked hard to better the lives of his subjects. We also visited a statue of him outside of the exhibit and took pictures in traditional king robes. At this point we moved on to the traditional village and Taekwondo performance which was spectacular. Once again we got on the buses to go to the N Seoul Tower and get an Eagle eye's view of the city which by the way is huge!! especially from up so high-as far as one can see all you can see is city
So there are my last two days of adventure rapped into one very long story so sorry about the reading!