Starting school this week was great. The campus is crowded again with Sogang students in the first days of their fall terms and the classroom atmosphere is friendly and fast-paced. In the last days of the summer, I started having dreams in which I was walking along Wall and High Streets on the way to [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Korea University’
5 August 2007
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 [...]
24 July 2007
Losing My Name/ "No girlfriend in this or any country."
The Week of July 2
Started with a sleepy Monday and a cash withdrawal. Following Sung Ho to a coffee shop to study, I found out firsthand what Athena meant when she told me about the Starbucks Index that everyone in Seoul seems to know about (and the linked article is 3 years old): the prices [...]
