It's Friday again and it is time for me to write something here. Well, there has been a lot of things happened during this week. I don't even know where to start ....
OK, let me start from Saturday last week. I went to HomePlus to buy stuff. It is a "Walmart" kind of thing, or "Carefour" kind of thing. Everything is usual to me, not that expensive but not that cheap too. I will post the picture later (Actually, I didn't take the picture). Anyway, what do you think about Chinese people? I'm not being racist here -- all I want to say here is that they give me inspiration, I study Korean Language with them in the afternoon class. They are very diligent, very serious and very smart -- no question asked. Thumbs up for them.
Alright, Korean Language Course -- just like ESL (English for Second Language) class, there are several people who are international students. In my morning class, there are 1 from Checkoslovakia, 1 from Taiwan, 6 from China, 1 from US (who actually is a Korean), 1 from Ghana (my roommate), 1 from Vietnam, 1 from Japan, and 2 from Indonesia (YAY, including me). In my afternoon class, there are 1 from Afghanistan, and several ppl from China. It is such a fun things to have friends from around the world.
I met with my supporters several times. We had this interesting conversation about Korean manner. One day, we went to a coffee shop to study Korean Language, but it turned out to be a very interesting conversation. When I was going to pay for my coffee, he (my supporter) said no to me. You know why? He said it is because he is older, and in Korean manner/culture, older people pay for younger people. Hmm, that's interesting, but maybe it is just in formal occasion. And there was one day, my supporter told me about a holiday in Korea when every children are very happy because they bow to the elders and then they will got money from the elders. Pretty much the same like Lebaran for muslim in Indonesia. You know that in here, age is really important, it's like older you are, you will get more respect from people. I have several times been asked for how old I am. And in here, they add 1 year after you are born. For example, I was born in 1989 and I am 20 years old, but they add 1 year when you are born, so I am now 21 years old in Korea age system. interesting :).
Do you know what else is interesting? The fashion. YES ... i like Korean dress style. But, when I walked down to my class several days ago, I saw several men wearing this what I think is woman bag. Like this :
I went to downtown yesterday (4/10) err Daejeon is such a big city, but I forgot to bring camera ... I know!!camera is such a blogger's weapon. Well, in Daejeon they have this underground shopping mall :) just like mall Karebosi in Makassar ^^. It is cheaper, and you have a lot of choices.
Subway~~~~very fast, yet not so comfortable. A lot of people and errr I had to stand because all seat was occupied. Anyway, it was cool. There are variety of side in Daejeon, by this I mean in the area of Chungnam, it seems very tidy, clean, very structured. But when I went to Daejeon station area, it feels really different. More people, more car, more trash on street. But yeah, there are more things to see.
In Daejeon, they have "gorengan" too. It's like fried food you can buy on the street, very yummy :) and very cheap.
Nice one ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Hey, today was the Cherry Blossom Festival in Chungnam National University. When I went there it is not really crowded. But my supporter said that he wouldn't want to come to this festival. Why? because there would be a lot of couple and he doesn't have a couple. And yeah there were a lot of couple and family. Anyway, I don't care, it was such a nice thing to see. There were several activities, but I didn't try anything, because I left my wallet T.T.
Cherry trees :)
Children is making their handprints :D
Art stuff lol -- just like in Indonesia :D
Anyway, there will be an event called Sintanjin Cherry Blossom Festival, but I still don't know where and when. And on 20 I will be going to Seoul --- YAYYYY ... finally. I will definitely write a lot of stuff and post a lot of pictures about Seoul.
--------this is for now ... comment or anything --err you know the rest ^^.
completed on Sunday, 11-APR-2010, 17:30
my room and all this vocabulary I should memorize ---
no giving up!!
enjoy~~~ err I have an exam on 15 and 16 T.T...HWAITING!!
