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 [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Yongsan’
30 June 2008
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 [...]
22 June 2008
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 [...]
17 July 2007
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 [...]
19 June 2007
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 [...]
