Cultural Post 4

This past weekend, I was on the phone with my mother and we were discussing plans for Thanksgiving. I had a friend who is from Los Angeles, California who isn't able to go home for Thanksgiving due to very expensive flight prices.…

Journal Entry 3

This past weekend, KASA had their National Pepero Day celebration. David and I had attended the celebration as we are both execs of the student organization. David challenged me to speak only Korean while coordinating the…

Cultural Post 3

This past weekend, I was talking to a friend from Korea about the younger generation of Korea. According to him, younger people are starting to become more disrespectful to each other and to their elders. I was shocked to hear that…

Journal Entry 2

This past weekend, I went up to northern Virginia with my language partner. As I showed David around my hometown, I spoke to him in Korean. Whenever there was a location or object that I didn’t know the word for, David would teach…

Cultural Post 2

This past weekend, I watched a kdrama that was about a woman who had to quit her high paying job in the United States due to being diagnosed with depression from working too hard. Additionally, she was diagnosed with stomach cancer…

Journal Entry 1

These past weeks, David and I have been watching a kdrama to revisit one of my learning goals from last semester. That is, to expand my vocabulary. I feel like I’ve learned a lot last semester with my previous language partner,…

Cultural Post 1

I went to get a haircut over the weekend, and I went to this Korean hair salon called Shanel Hair Salon. There, I noticed that a man next to me had just finished his haircut. I thought that it looked very nice, so I asked him what…