여름이 끝나기 전에

The weather is still warm and clear. But as I left Busan, crews were loading the umbrellas onto trucks, and as I pulled into Seoul, the bands outside city hall announced their last numbers. There’s no running from it: back to school.

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 [...]

韓牛

It’s a Thursday night and the light is dusty, dusky here in Sinchon as my second week at Sogang wraps up. Across the way, nervous looking students are gulping down banchan (반찬) faster than usual as they ready themselves for the last of their exams, and the air is filled with light from the noraebangs [...]

Since Arriving/ From Now, More Often

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

The sun was beating down this afternoon on SD Vamos, the Sogang Dae Korean Language Education Center (KLEC) soccer club, and the wheaty dust of the undongjang had already given our team, the dark shirts, spots and stripes on its way up from our kicks. After chasing a player chasing a ball [...]