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I made this poster to celebrate Pepero Day. Pepero Day is a commercial holiday in Korea on November 11th each year. People give Pepero (which is very similar to Japan’s Pocky) to friends and loved ones, while Lotte (who makes …

Poster 005 – Swirly

Interesting pattern I made in Illustrator after playing with circles. My girlfriend says this pattern looks a lot like old Korean style traditional patterns. I really had no idea it was similar when I made this hehe…

Back in Korea!

I’m back in Korea! for a couple months on vacation. It feels like I’ve only been gone from here a month or so, even though it’s been close to a year. I haven’t been back to the area that I …

Midterm day

Midterm day! Well, the midterms went all right I think. I think I did better on the writing/grammar test than I did on the listening/reading test. And I know I misspelled a lot of words too… Not sure when the …

Taught a lot of English today

After school I got lunch with some fellow students and then went home and studied some. Today was very busy and I didn’t get much studying done actually. I had language exchange where I got to study some words with …

Appointment mix up

School was ok today. I was going to have language exchange today at 5. Then it got postponed to 5:30, and once again at 6. But I ran into a problem because yesterday a guy at church invited me and …

Art gallery trip

Today I went with a friend to a picture gallery at this big art center place. We had to take the subway and then the bus to get there. The gallery was displaying a lot of Pulitzer Prize winning photographs …

It’s hot

This week has been pretty slow. I’ve just been going to school, learning stuff, coming home and studying or messing with the internet. Today, however, it rained. It rained a lot. I believe it’s the start of monsoon season, and …

My teacher got married

I went to church today, which was good, but I still am having trouble understanding the speakers. Though at least now I’m understanding the subject matter and simple sentences, but there are many words that I don’t know yet. And …

Korea’s out of the World Cup :(

Today I hung out with my friend at her work. She sometimes has to be in the office on Saturdays in case people call in to the office. But usually no one calls, or if someone does call, it’s someone …

Learning grammar at Sogang University

At school today we practiced conversations of the new grammar we learned the previous day. At Sogang University, during the 2 speaking hours of class, one day is spent learning new grammar, and the second day is spent practicing conversations …

World Cup

Today was the first game for Korea in the World Cup. Many people outside were wearing red shirts to support the red color of Korea’s soccer team. I spent most of the day inside working on homework and my own …

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