shi-hum [tests]

soooo...the tests are coming up. not excited.

today...was uneventful.

Jeongbal Olympics: Tintin "aka basketball Jesus" will be participating in kickball, jump rope, cheer and relay [100m for me; I'm first]. The guys were going to have me as a sub for soccer too, but let's not go overboard.

I have to start eating well and working out. Great. I think if it's not raining, I'll start jogging to the park jog to the rabbits.

Wrote down the steps for the tea ceremony. 7 pages. Had to rewrite it so that Enni has copy.

Had a delicious lunch: donkatsu with cheese.
Had a delicioud dinner: chicken and dduk gook.
Now I'm eating fruit.
My best friends are doing great.
I've been talking very well in Korean [I think].
Had a great Sunday.
God is good.
I am blessed.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

i just discovered

all of the comments that have been left! i thought i would get an email or something if a comment was left, but i guess i didn't set it up!

anyways...responses:
i'll take a picture of the toilet asap.
it's lolila...not lolita.
thanks for the college advice!
i miss you all!
why can't i like ufc? it's fun.



ANYWAYS. today is sunday. i went to the lake park with church after church.
it was really fun! we ate and enni and elly came too.

we walked around the park. [it's quite big.] there is a museum of different kinds of toilets, a very large swing, and this plank of wood [it's like a seesaw...but you jump on it. quite dangerous. it was fun though] i wish i had brought my camera, but we had enni's camera. i want videos though!

this little girl [can't remember her name] stuck with me for a while. she was very cute and practiced some english with me. we spoke in korean mostly though.

it's weird because most of them call me unni or noona. i'm not used to that.

one girl had a wave board [ripstick...i don't know what it's called]. i used to be pretty good on it. i can't do it anymore though.

jin brought his guitar. he asked me to show him my guitar skills. i have none. especially compared to him. his mom asked me if i wanted to participate in a church thing they do every month. she wants me to play the violin. i can't do it this month because of the tea ceremony thing, but i may participate one month. i need to buy that string for my violin so i can practice though.

when i came home i slept a long time. my body is still kind of tired. we didn't do much today...but i feel very drained physically.

i get my alien card tomorrow! yay! and i'm going to try and go to the christian bookstore and get a korean/english bible too.

this week

was wonderful!

i made jokes in korean and bought my summer uniform. it was 113,000won. $100 approx.

nothing really to report. i got to skype quite a bit and have been sketching stuff. read the glass menagerie today. liked it a lot.

this week was my dad's 7th death anniversary. i ate a bulgogi burger in honor of him.

tomorrow i'm going to a picnic at the park with church. enni is coming too.

i'm apparently the "jesus" of basketball.

on monday i'm going to pick up my alien card and hopefully buy a korean/english bible.

goodnite!

the sun is shining

but it's still super cold and windy. what the heck. it was sunny yesterday.

basketball. won the first game by A BUTTLOAD, but then lost the second game...by a buttload. Reasons for my loss: I was tired, I sat out for a rest in the first half, when I got back in nobody would give me the ball... [girls score more points...i could have gotten so many], when i got back in, our teacher decided to play on the other team. WHAT??? but seriously...I was on fire in the first game.

we got the name quizzes back...i got a perfect score! everyone was super surprised, especially me. the people who got some wrong mostly got my name wrong. for the quiz they weren't allowed to put tintin, they had to put my real name.

umma is going out to dinner tonight, so i have quite a while to myself today.

fun times today. i slept at 9pm so i had a lot of energy today. enni said she was depressed until she saw me! yay! i'm glad i make people happy.

the sun is shining

it's been a while

that's because i've been sick.

umma got angry because i go out when i'm sick but i skipped school once and came home early once. it's a korean thing. i understand. she is just being a mom.

i went to youth group today too. when i asked umma if i could go, she said anything i do is ok, but i have to control myself when i am in my sick condition. i understand. i told her from now on i will work harder.

tomorrow is monday. i'm not dreading it in the same way. it's kind of like...i want to please umma so i have to go. i don't know how to explain my feelings.

anne frank and i are really similar. it's weird.

got to skype my family for 2 hours on saturday, and my friends for 2 hours today! i'm so happy skype exists. it's keeping me alive.

in youth group, the youth pastor used 2pm to explain the men of Baal and SNSD as the asherahians. ha.

i'm super homesick again. i feel like the bump with umma is starting to go down now. i can't ever skip school again though...and i think for like the next two weeks i can't go out very much.

oh well. can't wait for my host sister to get back. i think it'll be better.

april 6th.

thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday!

i was really tired and sick. my nose was so stuffed! i slept through homeroom, korean, math and economy today. that's a total of approx 3hours 20 min.

in the morning my parents gave me a paris baguette cake! it's so pretty and it was really good.

in pe some people were talking...so we had to go inside and do drills. we did a couple of pushups and then group squatting...it was terrible. i hung out with hyona and kiri after...their legs were like jello. thankfully, i've done physical exercise before, so my legs were ok.

during lunch, hai-rize surprised me with chocopies! one of the third year dudes stuffed one in mouth! then his brother threatened to beat me up [korean birthday tradtition...saengiil bbang.]

while i was eating my choco pie, my friends from my class came and said that our teacher was at the class and i had to go. when i got in to class it was filled with balloons! i quickly went to my locker to get my camera...and i caught them coming in with the cake. [watch on facebook]

they baked me a cake and bought me lots of snacks and gave me a big card! gunhye also gave me a cute pen.

it was a very nice day. lots of sleep, lots of cake, no saengil bbang :)

lo siento

i met an el salvadorian today at church. i wanted to practice my spanish...but i really didn't know what to say. jin just asked if i speak spanish and i said "un poco. lo siento amigo. mi espanol es muy mal." i wanted to say like "porque hablo en koreano simepre, no puedo recordar mi espanol." yeah. that'd been good enough.

anyways. i also met a girl from torrence and another girl from the states. they go to the same international school as salvadorian and the english speaking koreans.

since there were international peeps there today, our pastor translated a lot of the message. SWEEEET!

after that i went to lotte and the noraebang with enni. we won't be going to the noraebang again for a very VERY long time.

i'd really like to get better at the guitar so i can sing more songs. thanks to the "transpose" button i can usually find a key where i know all of the chords in the song. i don't want to have to do that though.

toe told me some ways to worship the Lord other than devotions. just thinking about Him makes me feel better.

school yet again. i didn't used to hate mondays so much.

Adventure day

I went to Seoul with Enni today. I wanted to go to the Kyobo bookstore...but it was closed for remodeling! The first day of remodeling was today too! so...i still don't have a translator.

Tomorrow I have church. Yay! I haven't seen them for so long.

Since the bookstore was closed, we walked to myungdong. i bought a cool hat! my birthday present. i set aside 50,000 W for my birthday. I bought paints, a shirt and the hat. It's a lamb hat. the ear flaps are long though so you can wear it like a scarf and at the end it has pockets for your hands! the hands are paws! [even though it's a ram.]

when we got back, hai-rise people were still out at the noraebang, so we went to join them. it was so fun! i ended up singing "You and I" by Park Bom. It's a hard song...ughhhhh...

after that we walked around for a while and finally went to eat jjajjangmyun.

this morning we had club activities. they wanted me to freestyle, but i didn't. i solved the rubiks cube. enni and others mixed it for me. they battled. the girls don't really battle. they dance and then run back to their side...haha. maybe next time i'll dance. maybe.

sunny day!

it was beautiful today! but it was still windy and cold.

i had a really good day actually! many good events.

in english there was something about junk metal. which led to junk food. which led to obesity. which led to americans. great. apparently, to others we're just a bunch of obese people.

i had an interview for the school paper. it was two guys, first years. i'm barely older than them though. anyways, it was really fun. one guy couldn't speak that much english, but he really could say quite a bit. the other guy lived in england. his accent is cool. it's a mixture of british and korean.

they took video of me. they asked one of the questions wrong and we all couldn't stop laughing...HAHAHA! i don't know what they're going to do with that part.

we had a quiz on peoples' names in class. i memorized pretty much everyone in the last class. i only didn't know one on the quiz. i stole it from my partner though. they had to answer my real name...since everyone knows i'm tintin.

we watched a video on sexual harassment protection. it was one of those old school ones on tape. it was so hilarious. the acting was....grrrrrrrrrrrrreat.

tomorrow i'm going to the kyobo bookstore! yay! i need to buy a translator. i'm really excited.

umma is going to buy me skin stuff for my birthday! woohoo for birthday!

Tintin is SOOO good at English!

Really? That's cool.

Today we had Rachel for English. She's a Canadian. A French-Canadian. She says "aboot" and "soory" heh heh heh.

Anyways...we played a game today and the rules were really difficult. I asked a question and again all everyone was saying was "waaaaa~ yung-oh chincha chareh!" [she speaks English so well!] yeah. i know. i'm korean. not american apparently.

Had more konglish lessons. They kept making me switch from the American way to the Korean way. This one girl fell on the floor from laughing so hard.

We played basketball...but all we did was layups. Timed layups. It took me three shots. I was the last one on my team. BUT. I have a star next to my name. there are like 4 people with stars. I'm the only girl. das right.

We were outside for PE and it had just rained this morning...so the dirt was wet. So a couple of the guys took a shovel and a pail and started taking the water out and putting dirt on top. We have a gym. wth.

In my 8th class [extra class], I talked to junghwan and the class president today. They just kept insulting each other. "he ijuh [is] trash" "junk" "idiot". it was fun.

The Konglish way to say Hermione is "her-mee-oh-nuh". just like the way it's spelled.

I stood next to some of the dudes from my class in line for lunch today. They also insulted each other. Junsu was standing on a step and he was almost as tall as dohyun [tall guy]. He said that he is a loser because he is so short. Dohyun said "I winner. tall and handsome." ha. he is though.

Went to Burger King. Saw a bulgogi burger. Didn't buy it because I want my reaction on camera.

bold is for things i think are interesting. you can just read the bold really.