Tuesday Holiday!!

I have been fairly confused with my days this week because Tuesday was a national holiday in Korea! I think it was Korea's Constitution Day, although I am not entirely sure. However I do know that it meant a day completely free to do whatever we wanted. So Chikae and I went to the 11th annual Puchon PiFan film festival. We had seen a lot of ads in the subway stations for it and thought we might as well check it out.

I initially had no conception of how large the festival would be. They had seven different theaters all playing movies and the festival itself ran for a good two weeks. We sadly missed the movie that Chikae wanted to see but went and saw different movies later on in the day. I saw "Whispers and Moans" a movie from Hong Kong about the lives of prostitutes. It intertwined about five different women and one transgendered man's story with the common link between them of being prostitutes at the same hotel. It was sad but also uplifting in a way. Watching it however proved challenging as the screen was covered in text, on the side were Korean subtitles, English subtitles on the bottom, and Chinese subtitles above that. It was a little difficult to follow it all.

I also still need to see Harry Poter :(...its in Korea, I just need to go to it at some point.

Monday I went to this massive underground shopping area. I had heard that the shopping center had a bookstore with a decent English book selection. I bought a few books about Korea, one on modern history (Korean war-Present), one on Globalization and Feminism in Korea (I needed a reminder of Wesleayan, ha), and a book of old Korean love poems. The shopping center was borderline overwhelming. First off it was massive and all underground, so unnaturally lit. Secondly it was quite easy to get lost, since things started to blend together; I think I strolled the circumference of the mall at least three times. Third, there were a huge number of people making it more confusing. So I pretty much went in a few stores, bought the books, and left.

I cannot wrap my head around the fact that it has almost been a month already. As in the language program ends NEXT WEEK. Dear god, where did the time go. I also need to seriously study.