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 [...]

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 [...]

School Break

The Week of July 23
Was my school break. I met Hye Jin on Monday at Lotte World, a magical place in Jamsil in southeastern Seoul. Boxed in by Lotte Group’s magnificent department store, buttressed by Lotte’s sizzling Lotterias, guarded by Lotte’s Castle Apartments, funded largely by purchases on Lotte credit cards (it cost half the [...]

뜨거운 바람

The Week of July 16
Began with my our trip back from the 고속 Bus Terminal. It turns out that my bank had changed my PIN number when replacing my debit card, but somewhere in the conversations among New York, Los Angeles, Seoul, and Singapore, “Your new PIN number is” turned into “Use your existing PIN [...]

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 [...]

By Which I Meant More Often Than Not

This is the jelly-filled-self-resurrecting-exploding golden pig. For more, see Kaila’s blog.
Constitution Day has finally given me some time to turn out my pockets into real entries.
(Just as I finished that sentence, Jane came running down the hall with the news that she’d won the SK Telecom “Introducing Korean Culture in the [...]