Saturday Class :(

Was this detention? A punishment? No, but it felt like it. We have various makeup classes throughout the semester and this was one of them. However, it was a makeup in advance. We are missing a lot of class the first week in May due to some holidays and the presidential election here.

I'm all for more learning and the challenge this is bringing, however I am less than thrilled about only having one day off before going back for more. I will learn and endure though. Life is more than just pleasing yourself, and you have to work for what you want.

Morning at the empty 8 Ho Gwan.

Today introduced more conjugation, dear God how many are there? I took a pic of our workbook and all the conjugations we currently know of. There's joining of two like verbs (positive connotation and positive connotation), present tense with conflicting verbs in the same sentence(positive connotation and negative connotation or vice versa), present tense polite (formal), present tense informal, past tense, adding please to a verb, and suggesting to do something. I put these in order for the picture, top to bottom.

THE CONJUGATIONS FROM HELL.

The fun part about these particular verbs that we're conjugating is that the받침 (Paht Cheem) or bottom consonant of each syllable changes from a D sound to an L sound when it's conjugated. This is atypical and creates crazy havoc in my head. There are actually conjugations that we have learned that aren't on this sheet. Also not included is polite adding please to a verb, and future tense. Those are just the ones that I know are coming, who knows what else. Welcome to level 1 Korean 4 weeks in!

CHERRY BLOSSOM SEASON!

Alright enough complaining. THE DORMS ARE EMPTY. This is so weird. The only two people on our floor are me and YJS. The senior students and Heavy G, and An Hyo Sang are in the U.S. for the next week, and all the other students went home for the weekend. I'm not really sure what to do with myself. I hung out watching my boy Alex stream for most of the day while looking over my Korean notes. I took a break to hit lunch with YJS, then hit the gym for a good workout before dinner. My buddy Park Jeong Bin wanted to come over for dinner so I setup a pizza idea with him and YJS. Here's how it turned out.

This looks good right? RIGHT?!

That pizza...that one right there ^^ above, had corn on it. CORN. A ton of corn. It was a half cheese, half chicken pizza. I just don't even know. I saw the picture on their ad and had to try it. Oh well, it was worth it. I was filled up afterwards so I can't complain. All during this Jeong Bin was being extremely entertained by Alex's stream. They are kind of an item right now. Check out this video of Jeong Bin after he typed a message to Alex in chat.

After dinner we went for a walk. The days have been so beautiful here lately, and tonight was no exception. I was happy to get out of the dorm and spend some time with my boys. What a relaxing day. Except for class. That is never relaxing. Thanks again for tuning in! See you tomorrow after church!

Korean Word/Phrase of the Day: 주말에 같이 영화 볼까요? (Joo Ma Reh Kat Chi Yeong Hwa Bol Ga Yo?) This means "Shall we see a movie together this weekend?" Joo Ma Reh is weekend, Kat Chi is together, Yeong Hwa is move, and Bol Ga Yo is a suggestion to watch. So if you have that cute Korean girl in your life you wanna ask out, you're welcome.

TL:DR I'm in Korea.