Things are more or less settled down here I guess. I've confirmed the class that I'm taking and gotten most of my things needed for class as well. It snowed yesterday. It was so beautiful. I woke up to see the windows fogged up. Search for my glasses and after putting them up, I squinted through a tiny spot to see a white environment. Oh it was ( Read more... )

The ladies got bored. And off we went to Daegu on Friday. It was my first ride on board the KTX and the train journey took us around 1 hour to reach Daegu from Busan. It was forecasted to be a cloudy day with 30% chance of rain and we took our chances. Thankfully it didn't rain ( Read more... )

So I've registered for a total of 4 modules over here in PNU. All of them are to be conducted in English but 1 of them the exam is still undecided. I'll figure out what to do when the time comes. 3 classes under the same Prof who talks real s..l...o....w.....l......y just so the Koreans could understand what he says. The other issue is that ( Read more... )

Cross-Cultural and Religious Values and Institutions. That was my 1st class over here. A very small class of probably less than 30 people. It was just me with 2 other NTU girls on exchange with the other Korean students in the class. The professor talks slowly and it's so different from back home. Lessons seem to go at a much slower pace so as to ( Read more... )

If there's anything to appreciate in Singapore, it's 100% the efficiency even though things do screw up at times. I've always heard horror stories of administrative nightmares in other countries and I guess there's no escape. Lessons officially started today and I was supposed to have 3 lessons today. But, since my buddy wasn't too sure on how to ( Read more... )

2 years of scrimping and saving. 2 weeks in Japan. Kyoto. Osaka. Tokyo. Unfortunately, due to the fact that I'm going there on a super budget trip, I won't be able to bring home souvenirs. We're even planning on reducing to 2 meals a day and finding the cheapest possible food in supermarkets. Nutella and bread is the way to go each morning! It's ( Read more... )

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