Week 50: Kids
어린이날 has come and gone. Do you remember how I said 어학당 often treated us like children? Well on the national holiday for children, we got off from school. Go figure. But I guess this is an ample time to explain the background for such…
South Korea
Most of my gap year took place in South Korea thanks to the auspices of the Richard U. Light Foundation. Seoul became my home for a year but the rest of country held a bounty of adventures.
Week 49: Be Back in a JIFFy
So the only important thing about this week to me was the 16th Annual Jeonju International Film Festival, for which I had the pleasure of attending even the opening ceremony. The ceremony was hosted by 임성민 (Lim Sung-min, former KBS news announcer) and 김동완 (Kim…
Week 48: A Mountain of Work
A friend once told me the best way to productive is to just to keep yourself constantly busy. After this week, I’m wondering if they are a masochist. That was just a slight, but damn, I feel a bit like one now myself. The week…
Week 47: Cherry Blossom Eyes
Ha, the cherry blossoms still hung around for me post-midterm. The Yalies gathered at 여의도 (Yeouido) for a little 휴식. Apparently, so did everyone else in 서울. Poor timing, maybe. After being there, though, I’d say it was nice to see that the work overload…
Week 46: April Showers
I am not a fan of rain and it essentially was omnipresent as I “studied” for my midterm. To be honest, at this point, I cannot study Korean anymore. I need to use and practice it in order to see any gains. It makes sense,…
Week 45: Refresh
Spring is (almost) here. This weekend is supposed to be THE weekend to view the cherry blossoms along the east coast, particularly in 경주 (Gyeongju). Unfortunately, next week is also midterm week and I have to submit a legitimate draft for my Globalist piece on…
Week 44: Jet Week
Jet lag does suck. All the byproducts of my travel culminated in this one week and my sleep schedule was tattered. Thankfully, Jake also wanted to relax so we went to a 찜질방 a bit away from our place, Spa Garden 5 (super Korean name,…
Week 42: Embracing the End (and Extra!)
Dude, jet lag is mad real. And that basically explains my Sunday and Monday in entirety. Even though this trip was only two-thirds the length of my eurotrip, I’d definitely say it took a greater toll on me due to the dramatic climate change I…
Week 38: Déjà Vu
Well here we are, all over again, ready to leave the country again immediately following the end of my semester at Ewha. Summer is way more like winter than you’d expect. My semester was filled with a learning curve for dance, a bunch of random…
Week 37: Picking Myself Up
I realized this week, as I started falling onto the floor breaking in good ways, I have yet elaborated my b-boying experience to you all. So let’s start now. As you may recall, my hip-hop instructor, Double-D, is incredible. Unsurprisingly, so is his main crew,…