BACK FROM KOREA

Annyeong! My newest style of greeting!

So another month had pass by without me updating a single thing about my SUMMER SCHOOL IN KOREA! My initial plan has failed! I cant seems to find time to update my blog when I was there! Everyday was just so eventful and fulfilling! So pardon me for being inactive, I will slowly update it(summer sch) here, hopefully it will give those who are going korea a better idea as to how to plan their trip.

I have really learnt a lot through this summer school, something which I cannot if I were to opt to just going korea for travelling! Though I kinda exceeded my budget for this trip, but the money was well spent! At least I thought so.

First of all it is definitely the kind of university life that I always dream upon. Because of the course structure, university life under SIM-UOL is like, hmm loner life. Unless you join some CCAs, Or make some friends through camps, and your decided to be lecture mate; if not your life in SIM is bound to be lonely. You will go lectures on designated dates then take the exam at EXPO with a large crowd, in which there are probably 50% of them whom you see for the first time in your life. So, I am kind of curious and was looking forward to a proper uni life in SKKU. And the experience was great, even though there were quite a number of projects to be done within a short period, I really enjoyed it! Haha perhaps those who are in local uni, might think that I am crazy, but I really mean it! My friend who went to the summer school with me thought that I changed completely when I was there. As I was totally involved and active in class, and would sometimes volunteered myself for some activities. But actually that is the real me, just that I was hiding that extrovert personality when i am back at home.

When I was there, I was totally looking forward to class everyday! There was no such thing as monday blues, everyday is a happy day. And the determining factor of that is definitely my fellow classmates and my young prof! Thanks to the nature of the course, the class size is small, thus we were able to know the entire class. And there was a even spread of nationalities in our class. The summer school in SKKU this year is overpopulated with singaporean, so in some classes, Singaporean actually take up 80% of the class population. (Insert shocking face).

As much as I want to meet more foreigners through this summer programme, whenever I meet someone from my homecountry, I will feel as though I have found a family member, and would click on with them almost instantly. Only those who have been there and done there would understand me!

Back to my classmates, they are really nice and friendly! Especially those Korean in our class, they are really awesome host! They are more than willing to share their interesting culture with us! And they will always bring us to have the best food in town! It was really them who teaches me a lot of their culture, for instant, one should never pour alcohol for oneself, cause it will means bad luck for that person and the one opposite them. And of course, their drinking culture! Haha all the SOJU, MEIHUASU & BEER! It was really fun hanging out with them after school! The most memorable part was definitely the class party!!! :D I will talk about the class party later in another post!

If not for the reality that hits me, ie my money running out, I might not even want to come back home, as there is still a number of things which I want to do over there! Well, but still I am now back at home! Browsing through facebook, I see a lotof peers are having camps or other various activites relating to their university, I think I would feel crumming if I have not gone for summer school! So I am glad that I did! Smile brightly!

Thats it for now, Shall update again next time!

HP