Taekwondo: 1, Cassidy: 0

Quick post before bed. Today was very long and very stressful. I almost cried about 5 different times. We had a semi-interesting lecture this morning from a professor on the history of Korea. I would have been really interested if I wasn't so damn tired and trying not to pass out. I feel more jet lagged now than I did when I first got here. After his lecture we were told by the OCs that they had looked at our scores from our first Korean language quiz from the day before and that we pretty much bombed it. They decided to take it upon themselves to tell us that if we scored 14/20 or lower, we needed to meet once with our language teachers at night AND attend 3 mandatory silent, hour-long study sessions from 9:15-10:15 at night between now and Sunday. So of course, my score would be a 14/20. I literally almost broke down in class. I understand that they only want us to do well, but I'm a 22 year old college graduate who somehow managed to make it through 4 1/2 years of college. I'm pretty sure I can study for myself. That's all I'm going to say about that.
Another big topic of conversation: the torrential downpours that literally last from when we wake up until when we go to bed. At one point today, it looked like the news clips I see from hurricanes down on the gulf coast...ridiculous. Of course this all makes for awesome walks to and from our classroom building 4+ times a day.
We started Taekwondo yesterday. Taekwondo: 1 Cassidy: 0. I really was not prepared for what we had to do. We started out by running 20 laps around the gym. Now, anyone who knows me knows I am probably one of the least athletic people around...plus I run like a little girl. So that was awesome of course. Then we did some stretching...at one point while doing straddles, one of the teachers came over to me to try to pull my legs farther apart, laughed at me, and then walked away. The best part came when we did "physical training". Physical training involved doing frog leaps over one another very quickly, jumping and having our knees touch our chest, doing pikes and straddles and some other jumps I don't know the names of. After all of this is when we actually got to do a few Taekwondo stances and punches. I'm either going to be ridiculously buff by the end of the 5 weeks, or die.
In other news, we had Western breakfast today. Today it was some combination of different cereals, milk, buns, some gross salad, miniature barbeque sausages and apples. Not too shabby KNU.