Speaking Midterm

Today was my speaking mid term. They postponed it a week, and even gave us sheets to write down what we wanted to say to help us. I wasn't nervous at all going in. I didn't eat breakfast because I wasn't hungry, but the other teachers thought it was because I was nervous. I actually didn't get nervous until I walked in the door to actually take the test, then I forgot everything I know haha. Pretty atypical of me to be honest, but when I feel that I don't know something well enough, that's when I get nervous.

I still think I did well on the test, I only had two minor mistakes that I could tell. I did speak relatively slow though and they could have deducted for that I suppose. I was the first to go however, and I'm happy about that because once I was done I was able to just go back to the dorm.

I actually wasn't hungry for lunch either. I'm getting better at listening to my body for when to feed it. Before, in America it was just eat 3 times a day because I can...well, and because Portillo's and Chipotle are just so damn good. I got a good lift in with An Hyo Sang, and we ended up heading to 8 Ho Gwan for dinner. I got my signature chicken curry bap.

Today was a day for pictures. I've been thinking about how I don't have many pictures and how that probably doesn't appeal to a lot of people when they read my blog. Honestly though, that's not the type of audience I'm aiming at. This blog is for people who are interested in adventures around Korea, and the intellectual side of things. As well as, my personal growth and journey. I think that part of the journey is growing though, so I will try to be better about taking pictures to make things more interesting.

So after dinner was a shower and then cooking class with about half the students. We made what I believe is called 족 (Jok) today. It was a bunch of vegetables all cut up and cooked with instant rice. The end product looked pretty good. They also put in sesame seed oil that we used on our chadolbagi back home in the states. That made things a little more appealing for me :).

An Hyo Sang (Left) and Heavy G (Right) cooking up a storm!

During the process of cooking.

Finished product and students enjoying themselves.

There were a few signs in the college of information and communication engineering that I wanted to show you guys. (The place where we have cooking class). Also I don't believe I mentioned that the K-PACE staff is going out for a dinner on the 28th to celebrate my news story and to thank me for bringing the school some publicity. I'm down lol. Originally I requested chadolbagi, however An Hyo Sang showed me a buffet place today that has unlimited beer and wine as well. I was sold, LETS GO!  Oh also, here are a few jams for you that I'm currently digging.

다비치 (DAVICHI) - 내 옆에 그대인 걸 (Beside me) and Park Hyo Shin 박효신_숨 (Breath) 

Umm yes? This place looks awesome.

Yeah, if you don't know where to find me I'll be living here for the rest of my life.

Ok onto dorm life! So I haven't really shared it on my blog, but I have a heat bandit. Yes, a heat bandit. Someone comes to my room when I'm not there, turns on my heat, and leaves. This has been going on for probably 2 weeks now. I didn't know who it was, or why they were doing it. Finally, I caught the culprit.

The Heat Bandit in Action!

My room got pretty busy tonight. I had the blessing of 고준혁 (Ko Jun Hyuk) visiting me tonight, so I had to get a video of him. Unfortunately I missed one of his favorite sayings "I like bed...I love bed...I LY-EEK BEEEEEHD...I LOVEEEEUHHHH BEEEEEHD!" That one always cracks me up. At least I got his favorite song (the last one) that he repeats probably 50 times a day. He says "fantastic, fantastic, very fantastic".

That's about it for today, tomorrow is yet another day of class. Then the weekend! Yayyyyy, wedding and church! I'm pretty stoked, I get to suit up. Hopefully there will be some yeojah's there to talk to. Thanks for stopping in! I'll post my speaking mid term transcript at the bottom here so you can check it out. Throw it in google translate for a good kick. See you tomorrow!

안녕하십니까? 저는 칼입니다. 반갑습니다. 저는 미국 사람입니다. 저는 학생입니다. 제 방은 침대하고 책상하고 컴퓨터가 있습니다. 저는 한국 음식이 맛있고 한국 음식을 좋아합니다. 그리고 닭가비하고 치킨카레밥을 아조 좋아합니다. 한국어는 재미있지만 어렵습니다. 한국 사람들은 아주 친절합니다. 그래서 한국 사람들은 아주 좋아함니다. 미국에 안 갈 겁니다.

Korean Word/Phrase of the Day: 조금 (Jo Geum) This means "A little". Don't get this confused with 지금 (Ji Geum) "Now" or 가끔 (Ka Geum) "Sometimes".

TL:DR I'm in Korea.