섭 시원하다 섭

Our last day with the Light site visitors, we zigzagged across the Han in a pirate ship.
Saying goodbye at the Yeouinaru Station was hard — I’ve spent every day of the past two school years with Lee Seonsaengnim. Kelly has known me since before I knew a ㄱ from a sickle. Remember Parent’s Weekend during [...]

호박이 넝쿨 채 굴러 들어왔다

On Tuesday, Tass, Sejin, and I met Jeehye in Sinchon for dinner, and we had kalguksu and chumokbap near E Dae. She leaves in early August, so it was my last chance to see her in a long time. Just seeing Jeehye means feeling calm, happy, and in good hands, and so it was a [...]

年

Midterms week, and on Tuesday I headed over to meet Ko Ok Seunim, who surprised me with an impromptu welcome lunch in a delicious pasta place run by one of her friends that turned into an early birthday party when she started asking around the table about whose birthday we were celebrating with such a [...]

學無止境

I spent the first part of the week with friends and Tass. On Monday, I had lunch and coffee with Mayumi, a friend from KLEC last summer who is now studying as a Broadcast Journalism freshman at Sogang. After that I headed over to Yongsan to pick up a card phone for my sister. The [...]

Heartbeats

At times I feel as though I’m spending my whole summer making preparations for being here rather than actually being here. It’s not a bad feeling exactly, as mostly it’s rooted in this place turning into another home for me — a place that would require the few weeks like I need at school to [...]

Humility

The Week of July 30
Monday was back to school and sluggish. We sat around rubbing our heads and eyes and lobbing empty coffee cups into the door or wall, by which we meant trashcan. Our Korean had taken a hit during the vacation, but our teachers had already prepared review lessons to whip us back [...]