Study, study, study!

Well, not too much interesting has been happening in my life. Two things have happened. One thing that has--a global student gathering--I don't currently have pictures of, because my friend took them all on her camera, so I will save that for the next post. Number two is that my wonderful grandma, mother and Lela sent me a package absolutely packed with food! I can't believe all that they fit in one box! It was very worn and battered when it arrived. I saw it through the window, sitting in the manager's office, but he wasn't in. I continued to go down and check at least three times before I actually found him and asked him for my package!

They also sent me a package of rice with a note stating something to the effect of: "We thought you might be missing this, so we included it." I got the last laugh, however, because they put it on top of the trash bag in the box, and the box had become so tattered that the rice must have fell out somewhere along the way! Probably made some poor man very happy!

Since I don't have much else going on other than studying--I have a midterm on Friday which makes up 40% of my grade (yikes!), it's a very, very good thing that I am taking these credits as pass/fail--I decided to makeup a list of things that are interesting, different, or that I have done in Korea!

Here it is:

We eat rice every single meal,
I can cross "witnessing a metro turn around" of my bucket list,

All I have seen of South Korea is basically one long mountain range,

Seoul, the capital, have approximately 2.5 million more people than NYC,

Daegu, my city, has approximately 2.5 million people (almost equal to Chicago),

The Korean language is based on an Honor system. Speech differs between someone younger than yourself, someone your age, and someone older than yourself, which basically means that you have to learn three different ways to say EVERYTHING!

Asian people tend to be very expressive of their feelings, so if you wanna do a happy dance or yell at someone here, go right ahead. No one will think twice about it.

They put sweet potatoes, rice, or cabbage in about everything,

If you miss more than 10 classes your visa is revoked and you are sent home,

Downtown Daegu is extremely hard to navigate,

Being able to afford to regularly go to a coffee shop shows your status,

They put octopus in just about everything too, including pizza,

Wearing a nice dress with tennis shoes is perfectly acceptable (although I could probably never bring myself to do it!!!),

That is all that I can think of right now, and I need to go to sleep! It is already 1 A.M., and I have a midterm to study for tomorrow! Hopefully I will post more tomorrow or Friday after the midterm.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!

P.S. For anyone who does not already know, I will be coming home November 9th-18th for a special someone's (Rachael Rosswurm!) wedding!!! See y'all then!