I finished my last mid term today. Luckily that is well behind me. My Korean language class has started up. The class starts at 9am and goes till 1pm Monday through Friday. That ontop of my other two classes has really increased my work load. Also the American Football team is ramping up. We have our first game on May 3rd and we are nowhere near ready! We are going to be practicing a lot these next two weeks to prepare.
I’ll share a little info about my language class. I am glad I am in the class, much of the language that I had learned before is starting to come back to me now. Sure it sucks getting up for class every morning, but I think of the many things I’d like to take away from my experience here, picking up more of the language is definitely high up on the list.
The language class is pretty small, there are 14 of us in the class. There is only one other student who lives in the international dorm house with me and who is also a Yonsei student. The rest are just Korean Language Institute students. The KLI is part of Yonsei university, but many attend just the KLI. The girl who is in my class that is the other international dorm student is from Taiwan. There is one other American in the class, a guy from Canada, a guy from France and one other guy from Taiwan. The rest are girls, and all but one are from Japan. So I’ve made friends with several people from Japan now.
I am also now hoping to get the opporutunity to visit Taipai. The tickets from Seoul are really cheap, just over $200 round trip. I also intend to go to Japan at least once and hopefully twice. I will visit Tokyo and then visit somewhere more south later like Osaka. I will also go to Beijing, and if time and money permit I’d like to visit Hong Kong or Shanghai.
For now I am done with mid term exams. I think I did ok. Probably not stellar, but I think I did fine. Now it’s on to a tough couple weeks of practice.
I almost forgot, last Saturday I went to the horse races here in Seoul. It took me a little bit to figure out how to bet (it’s all in Korean of course). But I was able to do it. I lost $10 on my first bet, I then bet $15 on my second bet and won $15 dollars back… then I decided to stay for one more race. That race I bet $14 and I won $24! So I broke even. That’s about it for now. Hopefully I’ll have some more exciting things to share soon.
