omg it's been too long

In didn't mean to take a week long break from this but I was pretty much internet deprived for the whole time.





Last weekend, I went to Daejon and had a family picture taken. Had this whole episode with my dad's family because when I'm around them, I get so uncomfortable and stressed out and just unhappy, and I told my mom about it. I'm wondering though if it's just my thing, because everyone else here seems to love their extended families even though they haven't seen them for like years. I see mine every few years, and I hate being around them. It just really makes me uncomfortable.








Came into Yonsei last Tuesday. Wasn't so bad. Rode out 5 hours on a big bus to start the touring. The touring part really blew. It was hot and sunny and hilly and none of the places were that interesting. But I mean, I guess it's good that I can at least say that I've been there. There were about 100 students that went on the field trip, and most of them are from NYC or LA. Like ridiculous amount of people. But they're all really cool.





Day/Night1: Went to a Korean folk village. At night, most of us went down to the karaoke rooms to sing our hearts out. A good 2/3 came down later (after drinking of course) and came unattractively shit-faced to the rooms. Left early with my roommate, Jungjoo, to pass out.





Day/Night2: This was a hard day. We were touring from 8 am- 5pm and by the time it ended, everyone was so 지겨워 of traveling and sightseeing. That night, my bus practiced for the skit which got 1st place ^^ Definintely a great bonding thing. We found a resturant nearby the hotel that would serve us alcohol (we were literally in the country. even the hotel) and drank the night away with soju. I'm proud to say everyone held in their alcohol very well :) yeahhhh, go bus 2! Definitely some drama went down, but don't need to get into that.





Day/Night3: Nothing interesting really happned this day. At night, our bus went out to samkyubsal and passed out early. Or at least I did.







Our dorms have SUCH strict rules. No eating in the dorms, no shoes in the dorms, no overnight visitors, no opposite sex members; if you're entering, you have to show ID, if you're leaving overnight, you have to sign out, etc etc. It goes on and on and on. The opposite sex one is pretty strict here too. Like I feel wrong just going near the boys dorms, seriously. This is why Koreans are so sexually frustrated.



I took my placement test today, too. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be. I didn't finish it (oh well) but most of the kids here can't speak a lick of Korean, so compared to them, I'm fluent. It's just weird, cause when I'm around kids at school, I feel so incompetent that I would say that I'm like almost beginner level. When I lived in Korea, I learned how to read and write very well, and so when I was taking that test, all of that was coming back to me. I was zipping through the questions. It just seems like after all these years of not really putting any of that to use, when I sat down to start testing, it just literally came out of nowhere. I'm kind of proud and a little more confident in my Korean.