Day Eighteen

Today was our last day of classes, which was sad. Coincidentally, it turned into let's everyone get together and take class pictures day. It wasn't by my doing either, but it worked out well because now I have some pictures of my class.






Also, reading was painful today. We have the class around lunch time and today's topic was Korean food. Thus, we listed of Korean foods that we liked and read a paragraph explanation about these two people and what type of Korean food is at the restaurant that they frequent. On the plus side, I feel like my pronunciation for this section when I had to read the stuff was pretty spot-on.

Anyway, sad the class is coming to an end and sad that I'm missing the epic norebang party that they're planning for after the final. I really liked all the people in my class. They were a fun group.

Our last hour at school today (or more like 40 minutes because we bailed early) was some flea market thing. I don't know. We were supposed to bring something and sell it. I brought this wallet-like thing that Umma got us at Insadong. Ended up trying to hawk a pen instead. Wasn't successful because everyone there had significantly cooler pens than I did. Mia ended up selling her item to her teacher/my reading teacher. Lol. We also gave gifts to our teachers and goodbyes.

But bad 200 won Yonsei Coffee, I think I'll miss you most of all.



We left pretty early and waited for an eternity for our bus. We got on at some point and while the bus was super crowded wehn we started the ride, it took like four stops for it to all clear out. Thus, we had a very awkward bus ride where we were the only passengers. Good times.

We got back to start packing for tomorrow. Apparently, though, Halmony did a lot of it. We still got some stuff done and by now we're down to a lot of the little things.

At around 5, we took Halmony out for her birthday dinner for real this time. Went to the same restaurant from the first night, but we got some kalbi this time. Yum. We were very full. On the way back, we realized that we almost left one of the cell phones behind...Yeah that would have been bad.





Also, I finally gave into peer pressure and I watched the first episode of Boys Before Flowers. It's pretty entertaining so far. Other than that it was a pretty relaxing day. We were supposed to go out to go to the lamography store that Mia was super excited to see this whole trip. Also, we wanted to get those lego shirts that everyone wears here. Yeah that didn't happen. I blame it on Mia watching Boys Before Flowers all day. And sleeping.

Anyway, so hopefully this will be my last post about things. I might add a couple more random posts afterwards, but this is going to hopefully be my wrap up. It has been a fun trip. A lot more hectic than the last time it feels like and I feel like we got a lot done in the three weeks that we were here. No time to do everything as usual. Hopefully we're going to make it back to Korea in a couple of years.

Also, I'm hoping to maybe keep true to what I wanted to do last time and continue learning the language. Maybe be halfway decent at it by the next time I come back. Good goal?

And I end this post with something that I know I'll miss the moment I step into SFO. I initially wanted to do a giant pic spam, but thought that this would be more fun. Unfortunately, in the process of translating this from a powerpoint to a video, the quality crapped out.