Orientation Day

Today was Orientation Day...It was very cumbersome to get up in the morning. I'm not very good at getting up early, especially after a bad night of sleep (how are you supposed to sleep when your body thinks it's 4 in the afternoon?).
We were picked up at the dormitory by another exchange student who had been here for some time. Good thing, because there's no way I could have found my way to the central library myself. At around 9:30 am the Orientation started. Honestly, it was so tiring! Presentation after presentation after presentation...some stuff was quite interesting but most of the time I was fighting to not fall asleep or run out of the room screaming!
Maybe around 12ish we finally met our mentors. Mentors are Korean students who help the exchange students with all the questions you have and are your "first" Korean friend at the university. Every mentor has only one mentee. It's a really nice thing because they really try to help you with all your questions and go to the immigration office or any other administrative office with you. They also help you to register for your classes, which apparently is really important here. My mentor is a really nice and friendly Korean girl, her major is English language and literature but we will not have any classs together because she is attending undergraduate classes (she's quite young) and I will be going to graduate school. We had a pizza lunch together and walked around the university campus in small groups. I think I can now find by myself:

• the central library
• the faculty of humanities building
• the Korean language institute
• Campus plaza (with shops and restaurants)
• and the subway station.

Which is all I need to be able to find for now :) The faculty of humanities building is at the highest point of the campus (it's really really mountaneous!!)...yeah :) so I'll get plenty of walking every day...I'll take some pictures of the campus soon and post them here :)
After the campus tour we were supposed to register for our classes...for this you need your student ID card...which weren't ready yet for graduate students so I will have to wait until Wednesday. This part of the orientation was a little bit unorganized because many undergraduate students didn't receive their student ID cards as well (without any reason). Still everyone had to wait in a stuffy computer lab for a really long time which was quite boring...and I wanted to have my student ID today as well!
So I still don't know which classes I will be taking for my major (English linguistics). But I know that I will take the Intensive Korean Language Class (if everything works out, it's all a little bit complicated here), which is every day (except weekends) for 4 hours. In Korea "intensive" means very very intensive! So I'm very curious how I will cope. The Korean intensive language class is called intensive because besides the 4 hours of class which you have to attend (compulsory attendance), you are supposed to spend 2-3 hours on homework and memorizing vocabulary every day! Korean teachers expect you to be very committed to the class! Let's see how it works out for me (I've taken two intensive Korean language classes before and it was ok, it was at a different university though)! On March 16th I have to take a placement test and I want to fresh up my Korean until then a little bit, so wish me good luck :)