Bi-Weekly Post #4 (112)

[Jeffrey Choi]

For one of the past two weeks, Youngmin changed up the traditional class lecture into a fun activity where we crafted historical monuments. She brought these Korean puzzle like cardboard pieces and we had to put the individual pieces together using the somewhat complicated directions. After we finished, we were assigned to create a presentation completely in Korean about the monument that we had built. My monument was a traditional Korean house called Hanok. We had to explain the history,  special features, how it was made, and the purpose of our assigned historical monument. This was a difficult assignment because I had to read Korean articles online to collect information to answer these questions. Reading is one of my main weaknesses because I don't know a lot of the Korean vocabulary, so I had to use an online dictionary to understand most of the articles I found. Although it was difficult, it definitely pushed me into an uncomfortable territory  that I was not familiar with and I felt that was necessary because I learned a lot more than I expected. On top of this assignment, we did our usual workbook and textbook lectures that Youngmin always provides.