Monday:
So today started a new week of more learning Korean!
I really liked the lesson today because we got to learn more about each other’s culture.
Our teacher prepared a PowerPoint where we had to say:
This person is Japanese or This person is Chinese.
So basically she had all these pictures of ‘’famous people’’ and we had to say the sentences out loud.
There were some historical people from Asia who I never even have heard about before.
Blame it on the lack of learning the history of Asian countries at schools in the Netherlands.
And the teacher picked someone really interesting from the Netherlands.
So interesting that I didn’t even know who he was.
So this Van den Holken or whatever this guy is called..
(The hangul for this name was so weird I couldn’t even figure out the last bit of his surname)
is apparently some famous baseball player who plays for a team in Daegu.
His pitch is so good that he had a great influence on the team’s score.
But.. he is not famous in the Netherlands. Well.. Maybe if you are really into baseball, you would know him.
But he is famous in Korea, apparently.
I really have to research this guy.
Next up were flags.
The people from the countries of which the flag appeared on the screen had to put their hand up.
Our teacher added a cool segment to this lesson by letting everyone say ‘’Hello” in their own language which was a lot of fun!
Then came the flag of.. the United Kingdom.
Ajusshi was like: WHAT ARE YOU DOING? THIS IS YOUR FLAG.
Yes. Indeed Ajusshi still thought I was from the United Kingdom even though we spent a week together in class and everyone had to say where they were from like 10 times.
I was surprised that the teacher added my flag, actually.
A lot of the times the Netherlands are left out in Korean learning material.
Why is that Korean people? Hmmm? Why?
Didn’t we sent you Guus Hiddink!? You should add us to the list of countries in all the Korean books!
Joking.
But really. I would appreciate it if you did.
Next up was capitals.
The teacher added pictures of a famous place in the capital.
To be honest I didn’t even recognize my own capital.
Why you ask?
Because our teacher took a REALLY old picture of The Dam in Amsterdam.
So old that there was a horse with carriage in the background.
I’m sure that I wasn’t even born when this picture was taken.
My teacher was SO surprised that I didn’t recognize it.
If only she took one of the recent pictures so I didn’t have to embarrass myself in front of my class.
But hey. That’s okay.
I did well on all the other countries and managed to impress my classmates with the knowledge of Geography and Culture.
After that we learned more grammar.
I love grammar actually.
Because understanding grammar makes you able to fully understand the structure of sentences in different languages.
The teacher told us we would have a test the next day so.. STUDY HARD!
Which I did.
Roommate report: ..
So today started a new week of more learning Korean!
I really liked the lesson today because we got to learn more about each other’s culture.
Our teacher prepared a PowerPoint where we had to say:
This person is Japanese or This person is Chinese.
So basically she had all these pictures of ‘’famous people’’ and we had to say the sentences out loud.
There were some historical people from Asia who I never even have heard about before.
Blame it on the lack of learning the history of Asian countries at schools in the Netherlands.
And the teacher picked someone really interesting from the Netherlands.
So interesting that I didn’t even know who he was.
So this Van den Holken or whatever this guy is called..
(The hangul for this name was so weird I couldn’t even figure out the last bit of his surname)
is apparently some famous baseball player who plays for a team in Daegu.
His pitch is so good that he had a great influence on the team’s score.
But.. he is not famous in the Netherlands. Well.. Maybe if you are really into baseball, you would know him.
But he is famous in Korea, apparently.
I really have to research this guy.
Next up were flags.
The people from the countries of which the flag appeared on the screen had to put their hand up.
Our teacher added a cool segment to this lesson by letting everyone say ‘’Hello” in their own language which was a lot of fun!
Then came the flag of.. the United Kingdom.
Ajusshi was like: WHAT ARE YOU DOING? THIS IS YOUR FLAG.
Yes. Indeed Ajusshi still thought I was from the United Kingdom even though we spent a week together in class and everyone had to say where they were from like 10 times.
I was surprised that the teacher added my flag, actually.
A lot of the times the Netherlands are left out in Korean learning material.
Why is that Korean people? Hmmm? Why?
Didn’t we sent you Guus Hiddink!? You should add us to the list of countries in all the Korean books!
Joking.
But really. I would appreciate it if you did.
Next up was capitals.
The teacher added pictures of a famous place in the capital.
To be honest I didn’t even recognize my own capital.
Why you ask?
Because our teacher took a REALLY old picture of The Dam in Amsterdam.
So old that there was a horse with carriage in the background.
I’m sure that I wasn’t even born when this picture was taken.
My teacher was SO surprised that I didn’t recognize it.
If only she took one of the recent pictures so I didn’t have to embarrass myself in front of my class.
But hey. That’s okay.
I did well on all the other countries and managed to impress my classmates with the knowledge of Geography and Culture.
After that we learned more grammar.
I love grammar actually.
Because understanding grammar makes you able to fully understand the structure of sentences in different languages.
The teacher told us we would have a test the next day so.. STUDY HARD!
Which I did.
Roommate report: ..
Tuesday
Today I had my first test so I made sure I studied the day before.
It turned out to be 2 tests so I got 2 different scores.
When I finished my tests I felt quite good about it but half an hour later when we revised stuff that we learned on Monday I definitely thought I screwed up.
Because I realized the mistakes I made on the first test I began calculating and I thought I would have gotten 60% at most.
But when the teacher gave back the tests I saw the results: for the first one I had 80% and the second one was 100%!
Of course Ajusshi failed his tests miserably: not even 10%.
Today nothing interesting really happened.
Today I had my first test so I made sure I studied the day before.
It turned out to be 2 tests so I got 2 different scores.
When I finished my tests I felt quite good about it but half an hour later when we revised stuff that we learned on Monday I definitely thought I screwed up.
Because I realized the mistakes I made on the first test I began calculating and I thought I would have gotten 60% at most.
But when the teacher gave back the tests I saw the results: for the first one I had 80% and the second one was 100%!
Of course Ajusshi failed his tests miserably: not even 10%.
Today nothing interesting really happened.
Roommate report: ..
Wednesday
Today we had a different teacher: Kim Mi Ra.
(Oh I forgot to tell you: I have teacher Kim Jeong Uk on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and teacher Kim Mira on Wednesday and Friday)
And the lesson turned out to be very hard since today we were studying places.
She gave us a list with 25 different places like : Supermarket or Restaurant and it was a bit too much for me to memorize.
Because not only did we had to use verbs (which I still wasn’t sure about half of them) we had to use all the previous stuff we learned together in a sentence with a place.
So basically:
Wilson drinks coffee in the coffee shop.
Since Ajusshi is sitting next to me I get to hear his random comments on everything all the time.
Today he commented “This is bullshit’’, ‘’This is so bad’’ and “I want to kill myself’’.
And all of that in a Chinese accent which makes it sound way more dramatic than it actually is.
It kind of reminds me of my friend Cheng back home (Cheng is Chinese but he is able to speak English very well).
Except for the fact that Cheng’s English is so much better than Ajusshi’s.
I figured that Ajusshi learned English while watching movies like Pulp Fiction.
I guess by watching action movies he learned to say stuff like that.
Today we had to do another conversation.
I was kind of worried since he is still not able to read hangul very well and he tends to rush his Korean so he constantly stutters so I always have to hold in my laughter.
And this guy never studies.
When he talks it’s like:
Father.. , .. eets.. , eits.. , eats.. , rice.. , at.. , the resto.. , restu.. , restaurant.
So all the teams started to do their conversations and we were unfortunately last.
I heard Ajusshi gulp next to me out of fear and we both had to laugh because it felt like some comedy movie.
Then he was like : “DON’T WORRY! I WILL TAKE CARE OF THIS’’ and somehow we managed to have an actual conversation.
But in the end when we had to write everything down he still wrote down : I eat noraebang.
Ajusshi is unpredictable.
By the way.. I’m not sure if I ever explained the word Ajusshi for people who are not that into Korea.
Basically an Ajusshi is a middle aged man starting from like 30 and up.
This Chinese guy however, is 23 just like me.
When the teacher scolds him she uses Ajusshi to make fun of him.
This was an interesting lesson to say the least.
Roommate report : SHE CAME BACK HALLELUJAH. She went to Seoul for a week!
And she went to a K-pop concert so she showed me all the cool stuff she bought.
And I finally learned all the members of Exo because of her.
I’m not sure if she just went and ditch school or if she actually had a week off or whatever.
Either way. I’m glad she is back so I don’t have to worry about her getting into teenage prostitution anymore.
Thursday:
We got another test, hurray.
I knew most of the answers because I actually study every single day.
Today we talked about places we were going which came in handy because Korean people always seem to ask:
"WHERE ARE YOU GOING?'' and "WHERE ARE YOU NOW?"
Ajusshi moved his table away from me today to sit next to a chinese girl.
When I came back into the classroom he waved at me saying.
''HELLO! I moved.''
"You know, I am Chinese! She is Chinese! WE ARE CHINESE!''
And I quickly realized that he probably moved because then when he is not paying attention someone can actually tell him what is going on.
Today was the day I bonded more with my roommate.
She was watching different k-idol programs on youtube and when she was watching the new Beast reality show she just nearly died laughing.
She was like: "HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?" I didn't even realize it was Beast until she asked me.
And then we ended up watching the first episode of the series together.
We laughed MANY times, it was a good day.
Friday
Today was such a hard lesson and I had quite a hard time so that means I have to study more during the weekend which I'm not looking forward to that much.
We learned how to say: This is small and That is big.
Luckily for me the teacher gave us like more than 30 different possibilities which I have to try and remember.
For some reason 2 girls in our class already seem to know this stuff but I can't figure out if they just selfstudy a lot or if they are just repeating the lessons.
Today Pyeon helped me out.
I thought I had to pay money because one of the teachers (I'm gonna call her Shinji because she reminds me of Shinji from Koyote) said something about money and she showed me an amount.
But in the end I found out that they wanted to refund me the money and therefore I needed a bank account.
So Pyeon helped me get a bank account at Daegu Bank ( O M G SO AWESOME) so I could eventually retreive the money.
So I know I have my own bankbook amd my own Daegu bank card that also works as a transportation card.
Later on I told the teacher that she reminded me of Shinji.
I'm still not sure if she was offended or not because she was laughing but she also blurted out THAT SHINJI IS FAT!
I was so suprised because I like Shinji and think she is definitely a natural beauty.
And I finally learned all the members of Exo because of her.
I’m not sure if she just went and ditch school or if she actually had a week off or whatever.
Either way. I’m glad she is back so I don’t have to worry about her getting into teenage prostitution anymore.
Thursday:
We got another test, hurray.
I knew most of the answers because I actually study every single day.
Today we talked about places we were going which came in handy because Korean people always seem to ask:
"WHERE ARE YOU GOING?'' and "WHERE ARE YOU NOW?"
Ajusshi moved his table away from me today to sit next to a chinese girl.
When I came back into the classroom he waved at me saying.
''HELLO! I moved.''
"You know, I am Chinese! She is Chinese! WE ARE CHINESE!''
And I quickly realized that he probably moved because then when he is not paying attention someone can actually tell him what is going on.
Today was the day I bonded more with my roommate.
She was watching different k-idol programs on youtube and when she was watching the new Beast reality show she just nearly died laughing.
She was like: "HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?" I didn't even realize it was Beast until she asked me.
And then we ended up watching the first episode of the series together.
We laughed MANY times, it was a good day.
Friday
Today was such a hard lesson and I had quite a hard time so that means I have to study more during the weekend which I'm not looking forward to that much.
We learned how to say: This is small and That is big.
Luckily for me the teacher gave us like more than 30 different possibilities which I have to try and remember.
For some reason 2 girls in our class already seem to know this stuff but I can't figure out if they just selfstudy a lot or if they are just repeating the lessons.
Today Pyeon helped me out.
I thought I had to pay money because one of the teachers (I'm gonna call her Shinji because she reminds me of Shinji from Koyote) said something about money and she showed me an amount.
But in the end I found out that they wanted to refund me the money and therefore I needed a bank account.
So Pyeon helped me get a bank account at Daegu Bank ( O M G SO AWESOME) so I could eventually retreive the money.
So I know I have my own bankbook amd my own Daegu bank card that also works as a transportation card.
Later on I told the teacher that she reminded me of Shinji.
I'm still not sure if she was offended or not because she was laughing but she also blurted out THAT SHINJI IS FAT!
I was so suprised because I like Shinji and think she is definitely a natural beauty.
Not only is she good at singing she also did a great job on acting in High
Kick 1 and when watching those series I kept thinking that she looked so
pretty.
Then I started a conversation between all the teachers in the teachers office about Shinji as I walked out.
I wanted to go to Daegu station so I could see Beagles again, the duo that plays music in Donseongno but they would've played 8 or 9 and it takes more than an hour to get there.
More than an hour getting back as well and I would have to leave 22:30.
It didn't really work out.
Then I thought of going to a restaurant myself but that seemed kind of lonely for a friday evening alone.
I also considered going to noraebang to sing all the songs I wanted to but it the end I didn't go there either.
I pretty much just spent my time on the internet talking to people.
Then I started a conversation between all the teachers in the teachers office about Shinji as I walked out.
I wanted to go to Daegu station so I could see Beagles again, the duo that plays music in Donseongno but they would've played 8 or 9 and it takes more than an hour to get there.
More than an hour getting back as well and I would have to leave 22:30.
It didn't really work out.
Then I thought of going to a restaurant myself but that seemed kind of lonely for a friday evening alone.
I also considered going to noraebang to sing all the songs I wanted to but it the end I didn't go there either.
I pretty much just spent my time on the internet talking to people.
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