Thursday, September 20, 2007
A JOB!!!
Yeah!! After not really searching very hard I finally found one of the elusive Korean jobs (basically tutoring or using English in some manner). Through some Korean friends I now have a job making audio tapes in English. Beyond that fact I am not really sure what the rest entails. I have an interview/first session next next Monday and if anything it should be an experience.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Updates are coming less frequently but that is a symptom of not having time to write, not having a lack of things to write about. The past few weeks have been a blast and contrary to my original belief things are not exactly slowing down because school started. I am finding that I can't seem to find enough time to get everything I want to do done.
The weather has been absolutely amazing, as in it feels like the beginning of summer and not mid-Sept. Last week was full of going out to random places around Sinchon to get dinner and then hanging out with friends in pc bangs or bars. It has been nice because I have gotten a lot of chances to meet various Korean people through student groups at the university. I now have about three language partners that I meet maybe once or twice a week. They all are extremely helpful and a lot of fun to just hang out with.
This weekend I also went on something the Korean call MT, or Membership Training, for another language/culture exchange group. Basically what happened was a group of Koreans and a group of us Foreigns were bused off into the mountains to this lodge place. There we just hung out for the entire day/night/early morning with activities that ranged from learning Yonsei cheers to playing drinking games. In typical Korean fashion the drinking games were the primary activity. However I did learn some interesting cheers for this upcoming big rivalry event between Yonsei and Korea national (the two school get together and play soccer, basketball, and three other sports in a big competition thing). Overall it was a lot of fun with actual Koreans.
Alright, Korean class in about fifteen minutes, I'll try and get better about posting.
The weather has been absolutely amazing, as in it feels like the beginning of summer and not mid-Sept. Last week was full of going out to random places around Sinchon to get dinner and then hanging out with friends in pc bangs or bars. It has been nice because I have gotten a lot of chances to meet various Korean people through student groups at the university. I now have about three language partners that I meet maybe once or twice a week. They all are extremely helpful and a lot of fun to just hang out with.
This weekend I also went on something the Korean call MT, or Membership Training, for another language/culture exchange group. Basically what happened was a group of Koreans and a group of us Foreigns were bused off into the mountains to this lodge place. There we just hung out for the entire day/night/early morning with activities that ranged from learning Yonsei cheers to playing drinking games. In typical Korean fashion the drinking games were the primary activity. However I did learn some interesting cheers for this upcoming big rivalry event between Yonsei and Korea national (the two school get together and play soccer, basketball, and three other sports in a big competition thing). Overall it was a lot of fun with actual Koreans.
Alright, Korean class in about fifteen minutes, I'll try and get better about posting.
Monday, September 3, 2007
The First Week of Classes!
Sorry it has again been forever since I last updated. It appears that when I get more busy I simply write less, which is fairly sad because the busy stuff is the most interesting. Anyway, this last week has just been one week of crazyiness as everyone is trying to meet everyone and I can barely remember the copious number of names.
We had a week before classes started, and during this time we moved into the international house and had a one day orientation. Then we were let loose on our own. Silver and I have been hanging out a lot recently which is cool, we reminisce about Wesleyan a lot. She also loves to go to Itaewon which is great because I was slightly worried about trying to convince people that they really do want to go to 'homo hill'.
So Saturday we went out to Itaewon with another guy that we met, Pat, from Canada, extremely cool and very Wesleyan. Silver, because she hung out there a lot during the summer, knew some guys who we met up with and hung out with for the rest of the evening. They were all very sweet and really friendly. Around 5:00 am when most reasonable people would decide to go home we decided to fulfill our craving for waffles by going to this amazing brunch place. The breakfast was divine and my waffle was the best American food I've had here. Still this side tour meant we stayed out to oh...10:00 am. As one can imagine I crashed after that.
Otherwise the other days were spent going out to eat with new people every night and meeting up with folks on the hallway to go to PC bangs or other outings. Everyone here is still in the really friendly stage and there are a couple of cool guys who live on the hall. My roommate is a Chinese exchange student and really nice. It is a little strange being outside of the Wesleyan bubble and definitely makes me realize how the student body there is skewed to a certain demographic. A lot of the students are from big state schools, usually from the south or west.
Classes just started yesterday and I had my first one at 9:00 am, Modern Korean History. The professor seemed a little out of it but still was nice and the class readings have been interesting. Everyone says that they dull down the intensity of the classes for international students. Something that I actually right now find annoying. We'll see how it goes. Alright I've got class in a couple of mins. just a quick update.
We had a week before classes started, and during this time we moved into the international house and had a one day orientation. Then we were let loose on our own. Silver and I have been hanging out a lot recently which is cool, we reminisce about Wesleyan a lot. She also loves to go to Itaewon which is great because I was slightly worried about trying to convince people that they really do want to go to 'homo hill'.
So Saturday we went out to Itaewon with another guy that we met, Pat, from Canada, extremely cool and very Wesleyan. Silver, because she hung out there a lot during the summer, knew some guys who we met up with and hung out with for the rest of the evening. They were all very sweet and really friendly. Around 5:00 am when most reasonable people would decide to go home we decided to fulfill our craving for waffles by going to this amazing brunch place. The breakfast was divine and my waffle was the best American food I've had here. Still this side tour meant we stayed out to oh...10:00 am. As one can imagine I crashed after that.
Otherwise the other days were spent going out to eat with new people every night and meeting up with folks on the hallway to go to PC bangs or other outings. Everyone here is still in the really friendly stage and there are a couple of cool guys who live on the hall. My roommate is a Chinese exchange student and really nice. It is a little strange being outside of the Wesleyan bubble and definitely makes me realize how the student body there is skewed to a certain demographic. A lot of the students are from big state schools, usually from the south or west.
Classes just started yesterday and I had my first one at 9:00 am, Modern Korean History. The professor seemed a little out of it but still was nice and the class readings have been interesting. Everyone says that they dull down the intensity of the classes for international students. Something that I actually right now find annoying. We'll see how it goes. Alright I've got class in a couple of mins. just a quick update.
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