First Day Out Of Quarantine Asan-Si, South Korea

💚 First Day Out of Quarantine!💛

    At noon on Friday I was set free! Once my class ended thirty minutes later I made my way to the one out of three cafeterias located on the SCH campus. I'm not 100% what it is called but it was the closest cafeteria to the Global Village, less than a three minute walk. Since Covid is still a big thing in the world you have to have the SCH app in order to enter buildings with your custom QR code. When you leave campus it encouraged for you to get the Naver app since most places won't let you in without a QR code from that (though you need a Korean number in order to get the QR code.*) 

    When you first walk in you are met with a cute little convenience store. Inside are snacks, chocolates, drinks, and some refrigerated items. If you turn left  instead of straight into the convenience store you then enter the cafeteria item. Located to the left hand side are kiosks and at these kiosks you pick your food by picture. Everything is in Korean so my friend and I had to google translate it hahah. We picked tteokbokki with noodles and chicken...or so we thought....we actually ordered tteokbokki with noodles and these like seaweed wrapped sausage things.

8,000 krw

Tteokbokki very tasty, Medium Hotness   

I was also craving coffee so I got this little espresso coffee from the convenience store that was by Maxim. Not the best cold coffee I've had but it was decent so 4.5/10 for tastiness. Once you order your food you will be given a receipt with a number on it and you wait at a table or by the "restaurant" that you ordered your food from on the kiosk and wait for your number to pop up on the screen. Then you pick it up from the counter. At the kiosk my friend and I were able to click to go before checking out and we were able to use our American cards with the machine. It was a super nice day out, not too cold and not too warm though the temperatures for the rest of the week are supposed to be colder. 

After we had eaten we met up with a small school group to go fill out our alien registration forms (which seemed to take forever.) They then took our passports, we won't get them back till after the registration is complete. Since our school group quarantined at different times they are having my friend and I wait on getting our student I.D, and fingerprints put in the school system (so we have some trouble getting back into Global Village 😓😓😓.) We also paid most of the fees we owed 350,000 krw, but we'll have some more to pay later.

Actual Campus Photos Coming Soon

We then walked with two Czech girls around campus, I haven't taken any photos of the pretty buildings yet...so here is a picture of the very edge of campus. 😛😛

The cafeteria is by those trees

 

 

 My friend and I, let's call her Minny*met up with Thomas*for a smoothie at this Cafe right at the bottom of campus (located to the right.) Unfortunately, it was pretty busy there so instead we walked down a couple store fronts to a small Cafe place where we were about to get a Medium Oreo Chocolate shake for about 4,000 krw. For lunch we stopped at Mamas Chicken (across the street from the Cafe) for Chicken sandwiches. A chicken sandwich with lettuce, onions, mayo, side of fries, and a drink was 8,500 krw. Before you ordered you had to write a korean number on a form to record that you were there (it's like the Naver QR app...not everyone requires the QR code though I heard you need it to basically do anything in the big cities.) Then Minny and I scooted over to Daiso down the street and picked up some needed and non necessary items for about 20,500 krw. 

By the end of the day Minny's and my feet felt dead so we did our laundry and went to bed.

Footnotes

*You can get a Korean sim at the 7/11/Daiso/EMart/Etc...

*The names used in my blog are fake for privacy reasons