A few tidbits

So nothing spectacular has been going on, but I really wanted to do an update so I just compiled a few things that I've been doing during the last week or so.

First things first. FOOD. Hahahah. Haven't had a food post in a while, right? The first one is 피자 닭갈비, aka Pizza Chicken Meat or AWESOME. Hahah. So I love 닭갈비 (basically spicy boneless dark meat pieces of chicken with veggies), but we wanted a little twist, so we went to a place that has pizza-style. So this one also had mozzarella cheese, olives, bell peppers and onions sprinkled on top. So good. 

We cleaned it up. Hahahah. 

Then tonight, my familia had dinner @ Cafe Minto to celebrate the end of the semester . Seven girls ate two bowls of pasta, three bowls of 떡복기, which is like spicy rice cakes. So delicious. 

Been going to church, too, and seeing too many people dress alike. 

We also take sticker pictures and make Chung wear ridiculous headbands.

Emmaus Girlies :):):)

And.. we also study :D. Melissa, Ashley and my favorite place to study is @ Princeton Square. The environment is so conducive to studying. Work work work!

AND CHECK IT OUT! They have a USC Banner! Fight on!

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Sports Day!

So on Sunday the 31st (yes, a long long time ago), Emmaus held a Sports Day competition. It was four teams vying for the top trophy :)

Me + Hanna wearing our cool Emmaus Campus Ministry shirts! Thanks to P. Marcus for designing it :D

Our team, with the pink accented using my super camera. Aram, Judy and Nie Nie holding up the "BRIDEZILLA" flag/cape/awesomeness!

Judy and I practicing for the 3-legged race! Second place in our heat! Woo!

Getting into her zone for the Spoon Race!

The Wednesday Night teams :) Erin Samo + Mat!

Aka the Watermelon Teams!

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NEW PHILADELPHIA RETREAT

Sorry that I haven't updated in a while. It's been quite busy. This last weekend I went to a retreat with my church to Holy Mountain Jesus Town. Yes, that's the actual name. 

You can see the name of the retreat center above. It was very different from my past retreats. Namely there were no cabins or any need to go outdoors, for that matter. Everything — the rooms, cafeteria, worship room — were all self-contained in this one giant building. 

This was my room! And my bed in my room. We slept on little futons on the floor, which was heated. So comfy. 

My small group!

Pretty flowers on the last day!

Most of the Emmaus crew that came :)

More updates coming soon!

Coffee House!

Tonight was Emmaus "Coffee House," which was in essence a talent show where Emmaus members sang, danced, recited poetry, and shared their testimonies. It was an awesome time and everyone was SOOO talented :)

I MC'd along with Mike, and we had a lot of fun. EVERYONE WAS SO AMAZING!!!!! 

Decorations!

Joe performing a song. 

Coffee Girls performance!

Yes, that's me along with four of my friends, singing a cappella. 

COFFEE GIRLS <3333333

Me, Tina, Judy, Joanna, Haewon :)

Random picture in a mirror. Hahahah. 

And here's the last bit of our performance. It was a medley of songs: Jesus' Love is Bubbin' Over; I Love You, Lord; Deep Down in my Heart; and Love the Lord. Enjoy! :)

Easter Sunday

I hope you all had a pleasant Easter last week. At church, everyone was all dressed up and soo pretty! These were taken right outside our church, JSEM or New Philadelphia. 

Judy and me. She is sooo beautiful :)

Judy and Chung! They're such Gs.

Emmaus Staff! Mat, Brian, P. Marcus, Erin 사모!!! 

Then afterwards I went out with family because we were celebrating birthdays! It was Hyunjoo's dad's birthday and Hyunjoo's mom's brother's wife's birthday too. She's expecting twin boys in late July! We went out for some really really traditional Korean food. And it was delicious and not heavy. Yum. So here come the food pictures :D

The meat in the middle right is 떡갈비, which is finely chopped/diced pieces of meat that are then molded into normal meat shapes using rice. It's got a really interesting texture and it's delicious. 

I generally haaaate shellfish/clams/whatever. But these were actually really good and not salty. 

The end :) Will post again soon! 

Yesterday was Monday

So I've started this new thing yesterday where I walk around campus every afternoon and explore. Because I think I'm gaining weight -_____- and because I don't want to sit on my butt every day while the weather gets nicer. So yesterday I got to take lots of pretty pictures! 

More green is popping up everywhere.

 

More pretty flowers. 

GORGEOUS CHERRY BLOSSOMS. AHHHH

LOOK HOW PRETTY THEY ARE.

PRETTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These white flowers are bomb too. They're a type of magnolia. This above picture was actually taken after my walk. This was after my Korean class ended and a bunch of Emmaus girlies and I went out to eat. This is in front of Mary's 하숙집. 

This was our dinner. It was 찜닭, like chicken marinated in soy sauce. And then we added dumplings and ramen into the mix too. It was really good, but we got a really small size -___- Bad idea. 

Hanna, Mary, and Arum

Joanna, Me

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Update. Finally.

Hi, everyone! Sorry it's been a while, but oh well. I haven't been taking much pictures lately which is usually what I use to frame my entries. So Tuesday night I went out to our weekly Emmaus meeting and we went out to eat afterwards. 

Jacky loves her 우동!

My 돈까스. Delicious fried pork cutlet. So cheap here too. Yum. Hopefully I'll have more to update soon. Bye :)

Food + Music

Wednesday night I went out with some Emmaus people to get 삼겹살, AKA delicious Korean bacon which is better than American bacon because it's got way more fat and is more delicious. Circular logic? Maybe so, but still delicious. 

All-you-can-eat meat here is 7,900 W, which comes to be roughly $6. SIX DOLLARS. Yeah yeah the quality isn't as good, but it filled me up and mmm. So good. Next time I'll go for quality :)

Heaven... for meateaters. Nom nom. 

The girls in our cute aprons. This is so your clothes don't smell. They also gave us bags so that we could put our jackets/scarves/purses in them so they won't smell either. So considerate. :)

The dinnertime group. Hello everyone!

Afterwards we went 노래방 (noraebang, NRB) or karaoke for like 2, 3 hours. It was ridiculous the amount of songs we sang, but it was freaking fun. I think one of the guys took this of all the girls when we weren't paying attention. Candids are the best, yeah? NRBs here are plentiful and pretty cheap if you go with a lot of people. 

More updates coming soon :)

Another update.

I'm waiting for my laundry to finish drying. The laundry machines here are pretty weird. The washer told me it'd take 40 minutes, and when I came back 35 minutes later, it told me that it had 30 more minutes to go. And I left my clothes in the dryer for an hour and they're still pretty wet. So while I'm waiting for my clothes to finally dry, here's an update :)

I am enjoying ALL of my classes, which is wonderful. I'm taking a Chinese Characters class where we basically learn about 25 characters a class. And it's a lot of characters, and she goes really fast, and there are a ton of people who obviously know their Chinese characters sitting in the class to get an easy A, but it's fine. I'm going to learn Chinese characters! Rawr! I need to make flash cards...

I'm also taking Traditional Korean Society and Modernization. It sounds really boring, I know, but the professor is this Canadian anthropologist who is in love with Korean culture and definitely has the outsider perspective, which I definitely wanted to have. And he's hilarious. We're going to cover a lot of Korean traditions, institutions and social issues, so it's basically history + culture all mashed together. My favorite. 

I'm also taking a Politics of North and South Korean class and I love this one too. It's super relevant with all of the N. Korea missile talks that are flooding the front pages these days. In addition, the professor is one of those scattered ones who's absentminded but supercool. He basically made giant books for us with all of our readings and carried them up the giant hill. He's awesome. 

And finally, I'm taking a Korean class. I love my Korean class. Everyone is so chill, and we have people from England, Indonesia, Japan, America, everywhere. We have two teachers: one for MWF, another for TTH, and my T/TH prof is really cool. I'll get to meet the MWF one and hopefully he/she will be awesome as well. 

And now.. PICTURES.

THIS IS BANANA MILK. THIS IS WHAT I LOVE AND I FINALLY GOT TO HAVE SOME SO YUM. Except the price went up. Last time I was here it cost 600W, but now it costs 1,000W. Lame. Inflation =\

A cute placemat! I went to Emmaus Christian Fellowship, which was amazing. I'll write more about it later as I get to know it more. I had an awesome time of fellowship and eventually we went out to eat. Yum yum. 

This was my table! Bryan, Joe, Joanna (yes, KCM people, that's Joanna), and ME! Hooray now you guys know I'm still alive. I'll update again soon :)