Anyway on the way here, I was snooping around the club fair on the main road, trying to find the photography club I've been waiting to join since last semester (they only let new admits in when school starts... in spring). I only ended up joining film club and sitting in on a gospel concert, where I met a potentially promising youth group located in Guei (yeah, sounds like gooey).
Oh, Yonsei in the spring. It's pretty, and if I took pictures, it wouldn't do justice. And I'm not saying that its aesthetic doesn't convey in picture form, I'm saying you don't get to hear the loud overlapping music of the club advertisers nor can you smell the cow manure they use to get a jump start on a green campus. My favorite thing to see in Korean landscaping is the occasional "sick tree" signs (as quoted in the title of this post) accompanied with tree trunks stuck with IV needles. It's true. I saw more of them on the way to Theology Hall.
All in all, I still love it.
I got wind from the school that they're gonna let me transfer without having to cut off a limb. So I'm gonna have a bit of work cut out for me doing research on the application timelines as well as keeping up with classes.
And I know everyone's wondering what I could possibly have been doing all winter. And that's studying. I studied a whole semester's worth of Korean independently and took the placement test yesterday. The results will be posted in an hour and thirty minutes. Right after theology class. No time to waste. So yeah, though the winter's come and gone, I guess it might have been worth it. I came here to learn the language, after all. It saves money not going out all the time, and staying inside kept me from being sick all winter. It's alright. But I have to make up for the sightseeing and exploring this spring. Jeju-do, here I come!
"We're good students aren't we? We study during break. And party during the semester." -Alvin Cha
Don't judge. It's how things roll here.
