For this week's biweekly journal entry, I will be talking about some of my successes and failures I experienced during these past two weeks. Overall, I found that I was successful despite the little time I had to focus on my Korean studies.
As we are approaching Thanksgiving and the end of the semester, I found that my classes are getting busier and the assignments are starting to pile up. In addition, because I am planning to graduate a semester early, I have a lot of presentations and outside priorities to focus on. However, I still try to participate and practice my Korean speaking every day. Over the course of these two weeks, I continued to watch the Korean entertainment programs I was watching from the previous weeks. Unfortunately, I still have not gone around to start watching the new Korean drama I said I would watch last week. I completely forgot and as a result could not watch the drama. In addition, I continued to speak Korean with my parents. In order to practice more, I called my grandma over the phone and talked to her all in Korean. I was proud to be able to hold a conversation with her but be able to talk about how I’ve been doing, how life in quarantine is like, and how she was doing. Looking forward, I plan to continue calling family members that I do not get to see due to quarantine and catch up with them.
In addition, in order to practice my Korean writing and reading skills, I am now texting in Korean to practice. I have been texting my parents but also a friend of mine who agreed to help me practice. She was born in Korea so she has been really helpful and has taught me a lot of things regarding spelling and grammar. I will definitely keep messaging her and asking her to help me in the future.
Over Thanksgiving break, my parents have planned a small gathering with immediate family. We will of course follow social distancing guidelines and meet safely since our family does not want to catch COVID-19. This is a great opportunity for me to speak directly with my family and practice speaking with them. I am also excited to see them because I haven’t seen them in a long time. I believe that this is a good opportunity for me because they only speak Korean, so it is an opportunity to show them how much I have improved over the course of this semester.
Lastly, looking forward to the next two weeks. I feel as though I do not intend to put in as much work as I do during the normal weeks, at least for Thanksgiving break. However, during this time I will definitely have more time to watch more Korean entertainment programs and talk with my parents more. So, though I will not purposely put more effort, I believe I will unintentionally continue my Korean learning experience by applying it more directly to my life and immersing myself more in the culture.
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