Amsikle - Mon Dec 10 20:52:49 2007

Procrastination phase 2: I just finished my 10 page paper...now I have a 3 page response paper due tomorrow after noon, as well as my Korean word test Wednesday, Korean review Thursday, and speaking test Friday. Monday I have 3 3-4 page essays due, then the 18th & 19th, I have my Korean final, and the 22nd I have my 15page research paper due. BLEHHHHHHHHH. So instead of doing work right now I'm updating. Yay for you guys, meh for my school work.

Surprisingly I'm not super stressed, I'm actually spreading the work out pretty well. The only thing that really worries me is the Korean final exam that I have. It's going to be really really hard, and I think from this point on I should be studying for this like 4 hours a day every day. I know a lot of vocab, but as far as apply the vocab, I am sucking big time! There are so many concepts that this program is wanting us to learn, and right now, I know about half of them because they are all starting to blend. shit.

I'm sad I'm leaving soon, but what is new. I'm really excited to go home to see family and friends. My dad wrote me 2 emails the past two weeks and they were so cute, and made me get homesick. ::grin::

I'm curious how I'm going to react when I get home. I'm pretty sure I'm going to have culture shock...no doubt about that. I'm excited to get back to Cbus and see everyone. I really miss campus, people, my apartment, my bike. siiigh.

I've decided this post is going to be really random considering I don't have too much to say, it's more that I don't want to do the other impending work that I should really be doing right now. Last night was nice. Alex, Ryo, Jelly, James and I all went to this Art cafe in Hongdai, did work, I finished my History paper, and then we all smoked hookah at Flower till like 3am. I then went to class at 9am-11am, slept from 11-2, went to Korean from 4-6, ate 불 고 기 (beef) and then shacked myself in my room until now. It sucks that my day wasn't very productive, but I'm hoping that I can get up early tomorrow and at least walk around. Tomorrow night is the last choir concert that I will be able to go to here in Korea. It's EJ's (father of little girl I teach English to) Christmas choir concert with the Seoul lady Singers. It's going to be super cute because A. It's Christmas music and who isn't in love with christmas music...it just makes you all gushy inside, and B. Sarah (the little girl) is going to be singing a song! YAY!!!! I get to bring 4 friends this time, so it's going to be really nice and I'm totally excited.

What else...Nujabes...my fav. He's a DJ from Japan and I'm pretty much in love him because he blends  hip hop/smooth jazz/instrumentals and what pops out is music that is way cooler than trip-hop.

Also listening to Holy Fuck. Random title, but the electronica is really good. I like it.

I'm curious how the next 2 weeks are going to go. Suddenly everyone has been re-evaluating their relationships with people here some in a positive light and some in a negative light. The months before this was just us hanging out, experiencing life, and now since it's "down to the wire" we are all evaluating and guessing how things are going to be. I've had this happen to me before considering I've moved like 80 gagillion times, so it's not a new concept, but at the same time this experience has been so different for me. I've been much closer to people here, and I know that it's not because of the situation that it's the reason why we are friends. The 친 구's (Chingoos/friends) here are just amazing, and I'm going to cry immensely when I leave them.  The cool thing is, I know I will see these kids again, maybe in a different context but it will still be them non the less. Unfortunately Katarina  and Silvia live in Austria so that's a little bit more difficult, but I'm planning on going to Europe soon anyway so it will be all good.

What I pray for is that everyone fares well back at home, and I hope that our conversations never die to a murmur every other year. Life takes its course swaying us this way and that way, but I'd like to believe I'm pretty good at maintaining my friendships even if others aren't.

Okay enough of this future talk. I'm not even trying to put myself in a funk right now. It's game time to work hard and party hard. FIGHTING FIGHTING FIGHTING!!! (Korean saying)

Now back to work.가 자!!!! Go!!!!