Friday, July 20th
I woke up at 7:40 am because I had to leave around 8:20 am to get to 홍대 (Hongdae) by 9:30 am. An hour and two subway line transfers later I arrived in 홍대역 (Hongdae Subway Station) and then walked 10 minutes to finally arrive at my destination, YES International. YES International is responsible for the NSLIY program in Korea and they paid for the five NSLIY alum working at the USA Pavilion to come up and talk to this year's summer students.  As it turns out, five minutes into the presentation I realized I was sitting next to one of the current NSLIYians for about a half hour on the subway earlier, which we both laughed at. After our informal presentation, Haemi Ssaem took us out for lunch. We were going to eat at Outback Steakhouse, but the line was too long, so we ended up eating at TGI Fridays. It's good to know that the TGI Fridays in Korea has as bad of food as the chain does in the US. After lunch, Rachel, Bjorn, Jenna, and I met up with Minsung and went to Zoo Cafe because it was way too hot out. While we were there, she called housing places for me to find out if I could make reservations or see if they had empty rooms available, which was really kind of her. I'm feeling the pressure to make a housing decision because it's less than a month before I need a room. Afterwards, Rachel, Minsung, and I wen to go look at another place and then Minsung had to leave. Then we met back up with Bjorn and Jenna and ended up taking sticker photos. Apparently there are whole stores here just filled with sticker photo booths. I was amazed. Then I caught the train back to Yeosu, got a pizza for dinner and did laundry.

Saturday, July 21st
I worked a full day shift.

Sunday, July 22nd
I worked a full day shift.

Monday, July 23rd
In the morning, I attended the Six Party Talks Simulation, which was put on by the USA Pavilion and the Korea Economic Institute. Luckily it was held once again in the Denmark VIP Lounge and was catered by them, so lunch was delicious. The Six Party Talks Simulation was such a great experience though. I enjoyed it so much and I got to meet some new people there too. I played the role of Russia and, since the talks were theoretically being held in Moscow, that meant I got to be the moderator and practice taking the lead. I had no idea what I was doing at the beginning, but after about a half hour, I just started pulling people out to talk with them one-on-one to reach compromises because having six people argue six different positions meant that nothing was being accomplished.

After that I bought Asger Turkish ice cream since I had lost a bet to him back in May or June and had yet to pay up. We then decided to go to the beach because it was ridiculously hot and the sun was blazing. The beach was so refreshing though and it felt so good to go swimming and then just lay down and do nothing. Afterwards we went back to the apartments briefly and then met up again to grab dinner at 김밥 나라 (Kimbap Land). Then I went over to Bjorn's later and finally saw the movie Inception for the first time. I'm still not sure about whether or not I liked it.