2 Semesters Come and Gone

So this second semester I have been slacking in blogging. I promise next semester (my final one) I will keep up to date! For me after a while things become routine therefore I stopped blogging as often. However, as the next one is my last I think I want to document everything.

10 months have come and gone, I am now at the airport waiting for my flight back to Vancouver. I have had an amazing time here in Korea. This journey has not quite ended yet since I still have one more semester. BUT it is so nice to be heading home to my family and friends. It's been a while and I have missed them. I will definitely enjoy my time there for the next 2 months!

As for now, I will just chill out at Incheon International Airport and drink my Peppermint Mocha from Starbucks in a HOLIDAY cup and wait for my boarding call.

Happy Holidays everyone! Merry Christmas =D

Visiting a Korean Army Base :)

I had a special opportunity to visit a friend on one of the Korean army bases. I thought this was a unique and rare opportunity and I really thank my friends for asking me to come along with them. In my first semester I made many freshman friends. Quite a few of those friends entered the army in the second semester and I didn't have an opportunity to meet them anymore.

However, there was one group of guys that I had become closer friends with and they wanted to visit our friend Roscoe (성호) in the army together.

We went on Saturday December 3, 2011. The weather was chilly but it was a beautiful sunny day none-the-less. Understandably I do not have any pictures inside the base. When we first arrived at the gate the soldiers there check you in. One person from the group leaves their ID behind and we are given a visitors pass. Then we are to wait in the visitors area (a small building with tables and chairs) for our friend to arrive. Inside this building we are allowed to take pictures with our friend. We are also allowed to order take out food and eat with him.

I went along with 4 other friends MoonGu, BoHeok, HyunSu and DaJeong. We ate Korean "Chinese" food and pizza. I felt very blessed at this moment to have met so many wonderful friends at SCH and our friend Roscoe told us he was very happy we had visited him. I am glad we made his day.

International Students Play Competition

On Friday November 4, 2011 the 10th Annual Korean Play Contest for Foreigners was held at the prestigious Korea University (고려대학교). I am so happy I had the opportunity to participate in this event. I am not an actress, I try but I definitely cannot say I am talented in this area whatsoever. However, this competition gave a chance for us International Students to do a bit of acting in Korean.

I wanted to challenge myself with the Korean language. This is my second semester now and last semester the Korean Writing contest was my challenge and this semester I was happy this play competition became my challenge.

At first it was so difficult to memorize my lines. I did not know a lot of the vocabulary and the verb conjugations. However, with help from my fellow cast mates soon all of us (no matter our levels) had our lines down pretty well. Even though we were only together for a short period of time rehearsing (late into the night), I do feel we put our best performance out there and did a good job!

The trees lining Korea University!


The stone buildings that gives Korea university a classic English feel.

Annalee winning best female actress!

I am happy to say after our hard work we were able to win 2nd prize at this years festival. Overall 6 schools competed and everyone did an amazing job! It was really neat to see students from all over the world speaking Korean. One of my main goals being in Korea is to improve my Korean and to hopefully be at a conversational level before I leave. I'm working hard towards that goal and having a lot of fun along the way.