Her Excellency Dr. Angela Merkel (Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (think Obama of Germany)) came to Ewha today because she's getting an Honorary Doctoral Degree from Ewha. My friends and I were registered to see the event and so we went.
We had to wait online and while we did, we amused ourselves with another shiny silver pants guy (there was a shiny blue pants guy from the Asia Song Festival).
However, after waiting in line, we were told that we wouldn't be seated because there weren't enough seats. My friends and I were pissed becuase we definitely registered for it and we were missing class for it (we can request for an excuse letter though). After talking to the people for maybe half an hour, they finally let us in!
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| angry foreigners |
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| haha raise the German flag! |
We had pretty good balcony seats...we were right in front!
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| (l) Sheila, Maria, me and Tessa |
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| I'm German! |
The program started with Reverend Sohn, Woon San giving a prayer.
Then Dr. Lee, Kong-Joo (Dean of the Graduate School) gave a commendatory statement.
Then Dr. Kim, Sun-Uk (President of Ewha Woman's University) gave the Degree Conferment to Her Excellency Dr. Angela Merkel (Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany).
Then Her Excellency Dr. Angela Merkel (Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany) gave the acceptance speech.
The program ended with Reverend Sohn, Woon San giving the benediction. Then they took a group pic:
Afterwards, we all went outside to wait for Her Excellency Dr. Angela Merkel to come out. It took her 30 mins but while we waited we saw lots of cars parked outside. Here's one with a really cool license plate:
Then she came out!
Then we saw this woman who will be the next next president of South Korea (She ran aganist the current president of South Korea).
Oh, and we saw a very cute guy...we think he's an intern:
It was a great day :)
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