The Slightly Boring "this is an update on my life" Post

When I first started learning here at Sun Moon University, I had a lot of free time and not enough activities to fill it. I'm staying at a separate campus than the main one and there are almost no organized activities. So after two months I've finally gotten really involved, and now I travel to the main campus 2 or 3 times a week. Mondays there is a small group that meets together to discuss an important topic in english, such as racism, and gives korean students who want to come a chance to practice english. Wednesdays the same group watches an american movie with korean subtitles and we talk about the movie. This is also for korean students to practice english. I go because they wanted more native english speakers and it gives me a chance to talk and meet new people. Thursdays are culture nights in which a few people give a presentation about their country and we play some games and eat some food and then talk about what we could learn/gain from presentation. This is a chance for students from different countries to interact and meet each other, and the goal of the organization is to create a global family (which is also the name of the organization).

I've also started meeting with one or two korean students a few times a week so they can practice english conversation. And I do it just to be nice and to have fun talking to people. Then just this past weekend I picked up a job teaching english to a group of middle schoolers and a group of high schoolers. Its on Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 6:30, so its good chunk of time. Another teacher suddenly quit and so they were looking for someone to fill in. I decided to keep working for the rest of the year. Its gonna suck not being able to go do things on the weekends, I won't be able to visit Seoul for a month, but right now I could really use the money. Last week I found a one time job where they video recorded me reading children's books in english. It wasn't nearly as easy as it sounds (i had to improvise in making a story cuz it was mostly pictures, and i had to make it fun even though i was only talking to a camera and was surrounded by a studio set up) but I'm supposed to get like $200 for the 2 hours it took. Of course they won't be able to pay me for a month. Theres a few more things going on too: our class is practicing a song for a school festival and I'm supposed to make the dance, I'm supposed to be in a dance for a speech contest later too cuz they need foreigners, theres a thanksgiving dinner on thursday for westerners, and who knows what else.

These days its a little too busy, especially after I was getting used to having so much free time. So I haven't been focusing on learning Korean as much even though its getting more difficult. But busy is good. I also still have to figure out how to get my money from my american bank account to korea so I can pay for my school tuition (yea, I still haven't paid yet) and I need to figure out what I'm going to do during the break and next year.

Besides my the going-ons of my own life Korea is starting to get REALLY cold. I bought some milk and left it on the window sill to keep it cold (we can't have a fridge) and the next day when I was eating cereal there were some ice chunks. And supposedly today it could have snowed (although it didn't). And its still just halfway through November. I don't know how people survive (especially all the girls wearing short skirts! they're crazy!). I'm gonna have to buy some long johns and a fat snow jacket soon.

Aright, maybe next time I'll write a more interesting and thoughtful post. And fyi, I usually don't write the next post until I get at least one comment on the previous one ^^