After 2 Months

Hmmm....it's been 2 months since I updated my blog. So, what have I been doing all this while?

First of all, continuing from my last post, which was the result of my Level 4 mid-term exam.
At the end of Level 4 the teacher gave us the result for the whole semester, and well, I'm quite satisfied with my result.
1 mark less than the previous 3 levels, I got 96% for Level 4 ^^

And the day right after I got back my exam results, I was on my way back home --my sweet sweet Malaysia.

I had 3 weeks holidays. Spent the first 5 days around Selangor.
I thought I'll be staying with my aunt most of the time, but it turned out that I spent 2 nights at my friends' place and 3 nights in 2 different hotels rented by my aunt....don't know what they were thinking...

Anyway, visited lots of my friends from INTEC, but sadly weren't able to meet up with my friends from secondary school and primary school who were in KL.

Throughout my 5 days there, I went to Shah Alam 3 times: friday night, monday afternoon and again on tuesday afternoon.
Saw my juniors (all here in Korea right now) in INTEC. About 30 chinese this time, one of them my friend's sis from SMK Batu Lintang.

And ya, met another one and his dad during my stay at my friend's place. It so happen that My friend's father has a friend who's son was offered jpa coming to Korea as well. What a small world^^

Then was back in Kuching for 2and a half weeks. Met some of my friends, but not all. All the form 6s seems so busy... : ( Then went for breakfast with one of my primary school class teacher as well.

Was watching animations downloaded by my bro most of the time: Shaman King, Gundam etc...
Tried to stay at home more just to teman my family....

And it was also a coincidence because my aunt from US came back for a friend's wedding, so I was able to see her as well. Who knows when I'll be going back again? Though I have my own plans, those may not be the plans God has for me right?

So there goes my 3 weeks summer break. Visiting friends, spending time with my family, got a laptop, renewed my bike's L license, watched some anime and read a few comics and story books...

Well then, guess I'll need to wait for another year before I have a longer holiday^^

93.3%

Haha...breaking my Korean Language Test history...got only 93.3% for this mid-term exam.
Meaning that the chances of maintaining a 97% for this level is near impossible unless I get 100% for the final exam, which is harder than plucking the starts from the sky^^

But at least I was among the top 8 people who got 90% and above for this exam. Man, was it hard! I was shocked that I got 4 wrong for my listening test. Well, I couldn't hear a question properly, so I thought the most I'll make is 1,2 mistakes. But 4 !!??

The lecturers complain that we're worse than our seniors. Not in terms of intelligence, but in terms of hardworking. We put in much less effort than our seniors. At least that's what the teachers said...

Guess I need to watch more Korean drama within this month to improve my listening skills...

Juniors

Juniors are in INTEC!!!!

Well, it's hard to explain why, but I'm excited to hear that my Korean Programme juniors have finally arrived^^

But then....yet again....
I was excited to meet my seniors as well last year, before coming to Korea, and so were the seniors, can't wait to meet us....
But after coming here, I rarely see them at all.
And the excitement of meeting seniors vanished quicker than it first came...
Well, maybe it was due to the unreasonable orientation....but even excluding that...we seldom meet our seniors...
Guess this is life....
Will history repeat itself between me and my juniors?

I'm glad by blogs could be of help to some of them...knowing what to expect, 3 months in INTEc and life here in Korea....
At least that's the least I can do for them...
Well, hope you all enjoy your time in INTEC....as I've said, I miss lots of my friends back there....

Ghost Pic

Picture taken during one of my friend's birthday.

We had some sort of makan-makan at 근린공원, a park near our home.

Notice the darkened lips...not photoshop effect...

But yet again, I'm not the sort to believe in ghost pictures...

Cyworld

So, I'll do some random updates for the things that happen throughout the past few weeks...
It may not be according to chronicle orders...

After much persuasion by my student, I finally registerd for a cyworld account.
It's something lots of Korean, maybe 1/2 of them have. It's a cyberworld where you can write your diary, share your pictures, post notices, visit other friends who are using cyworld...kind of like Friendster...but more complicated....and you need to buy the stuff to decorate your "mini room", something which I haven't done...firstly no $, then the process of buying is quite troublesome, for foreigners....

Here's the chinese version of it.

Homestay

The homestay family that I stayed with for a weekend on the 11-12/5.

We went to a movie shooting place, something like a small Hollywood for Korea.Even the famous Taegeukgi was screened here.

Besides that place I basically spent the whole time in their house, at Incheon. The father is a pastor, so he was busy preparing for the Sunday sermon.They invited their relatives over for dinner, and I had fun playing with their two primary school cousin.

One thing that surprised me was that most of them slept at 10p.m. I always have this thought that Korean stays up till late at night. But seems that I was wrong. The girl(3 years younger than me, High School 1st Year) kept herself staying up till 11p.m, watching a video that we rented. But eventually she was too tired and went to bed as well.

Well anyway, I'll be seeing them again end of next month when we invite the homestay families to our school.

Way

Distance

Hanji

We had a class on Korea's famous paper, the Hanji.

Went to the Koea House near Samsung Station. There we made this beautiful boxes.

Well, though we didn't make the square box, we pasted the Hanji around, in, out and above it.

Beautiful isn't?

Another student??

Was suppose to go to a Noraebang with my Soul Friend (small group in youth) group members as it was our last gathering(starting next month we'll be divided into other groups).
However, our plans were interrupted preparation for the "Adult Ceremony", a ceremony for those who are 20 this year.

I stayed and watch the ceremony, the pastor prayed for the "adults", had a speech from a youth and a reply speech from a parent.

And ya, after church service this afternoon, I was approached by a fellow sister who's majoring in Chinese.
She wants to have Chinese conversation class with me, asking when am I free. Talking, as most of you know, is one of my hobby. So I agreed to it.
So from now on I might be busy on Monday and Thursday evenings....