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I now have my travel itinerarie for my trip to Seoul, South Korea.

It looks like we’ll be departing from Kansas City International Airport, which was a given, and then stopping in Chicago. From Chicago we have a straight flight to Tokyo Japan’s Narita International Airport. From there we’ll take a little ride over to the famous Incheon International Airport.

It’s kind of depressing, you know? I really miss my Japanese friend. I miss her a lot. I wish that the situation would have worked out better. The lay over in Japan, not to mention the two weeks that I’ll be in Seoul, could have been a great opportunity to sit down and actually talk rather than chat, and goodness knows that we have tons of silly things to talk about.

Well crap. I’m just going to get myself seriously depressed if I think about that… so anyway..

We still don’t know specifically what we’ll do on each individual day. The general plan that I have for our visit there is:

• Lectures:
Korean Culture
Korean History
Politics and International Business
• Field Trips (the university stuff):
Samsung Electronics
Kia Automobile Co.
Pohang Steel Co.
Daewoo Shipbuilding
Korean Traditional Pottery Yard (this one actually sounds a bit interesting)
Korean Stock Exchanges
DMZ
• Sightseeing (the good stuff!):
Kyungju
Kyungbok Palace
Jinju and surrounding southern coastal area (go go exercise video, get mah bootay into shape! heh heh)
Songkwang Buddhist Temple
Korean folk Village
Seoul Tower and Han River
Korean War Museum
Lotte World (of course!)

Obviously the business related trips are not particularly interesting for me. However, I am traveling with the International Business majors, so there you have it. I wish that I could meander off and do my own thing during these days but I’ve already been told that this is not an option.

My interests are in the culture and the people. I’ve always enjoyed learning about these sort of things, especially the music and the individual people and what it means to be a part of their culture. I wonder if that makes as much sense on paper as it does in my head?

We’ll be leaving May 18^th and returning on the 31^st.

Later folks.. !

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