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 21: Rebranding the Program

Well, speaking up can help… … but it could also just make you feel like you wasted more time. The dissatisfaction that most of the KU Light Fellows and I endured came face-to-face with the office for once for a discussion. Now, it appeared to…

Week 20: Why Korea University?

20 weeks. That’s 140 days, which is 3,360 hours, otherwise known as 201,600 minutes. I cannot even count up to 140, let alone 201,600. The longest I have been away from home up to this point is 23 weeks for research last summer plus my…

Week 2: Changing Pace

I haven’t been fully honest with you. Yes, I am at a Korean university learning Korean. Yet, everyday feels like I’m breaking an unspoken moral code by not only studying at an all-girl, Christian university, but I also live in 이화여자대학교 (Ewha Womans University). To reconcile…