I realized many international students have problems with coins in here.
They are curious about why there are no number on coin and why dimmer are smaller than nickel. I totally didn't realized it since I learn about coins by bitter experience. When I was secould grade in elementary school of America, during P.E class, one student approached me and asked me whether I can give some of money pointing a big coin on my palm. Of course, I said "no!" thinking why am I have to give her money even I don't know her. She didn't forgive. She pointed the smaller coin and asked me whether I can give it to her. I gave it, since it didn't seems like big money. She brought the coin to snack bar and bought gums. When I saw she is chewing the gum, I also want to buy gum. I went to snack bar and handdle the bigger coin to casher. She only give me 5 gums. I asked her why she give me 5 gums even she give 10 gums to other girl. What I got was 5cent, the bigger one, and what the other girl got was 10 cent, the smaller one.

One of the most afraid thing in America is obesity.
When I got in here, every student told me all people come to America get at least 10kg.
Honestly, I thought it is not applicable to me but I got weight a lot.
I got 7kg in a 2 monthes. The number of my current weightIt is the highest number in my life.
I used to thought hambuger is junk food not healty at all, but now I can't understand why hambuger is bad for health. It contain meat, fresh tomatos, lettuce, and onion. start to think hambuger is raather healty food. Pizza was meal not desserts and 2 pices of pizza was maximum that I could eat. Now, pizza just became desserts for me. It is fist time to experience my hippo becoming accordion whever I walk.


It is the photo I put on my cyworld(Korean facebook) before I go to Korea.




My lovely America will be like this...





Isn't it soooooo loverly??


yes....it was totally true that I am getting fat...
and sadly I couldn't met the stunning guies.....

When I look back, it is really irony why I am in English education department. I liked economic classes and geographe classes from when I was in middle school. I want to be a economist or CEO. I dreamed about become Cariton Fiolina who was women hp CEO. As I read her amazing stories I really admired her and want to be amazing CEO like her. After The university enterencing exam, teacher start to students advise for their future. He keep recommend me to be a teacher like him. So I applied education department in several university. I didn't know where is kongju national university but since one of my friends' dream school was education department in kongju national university I applied. It may sound like stupid. But after I got mail that ingot admission to social education department in konju national university I was really happy since I still liked social even I may not become CEO. However as I learn in university I start to dislike social and at that time luckily I met Mike who come to social education department as his study for a six months and he volunteer to teach English to students they want. All of my friends doesn't want to go there so I had to go there alone but I met a lot of nice friends in there and Mike was really kind. The class was really warm. Everly time we drinked teas and talked. I started to like English and If I say it wasn't the reason English education seems like more prospective than social educationat all, it is lie. But it is really true I really like learning English now even mine is nit good at all. However before two years ago I was much much more terrible English speaker. One of my friend Jihye was English department student when I met her at first time in Mike's class. She horrified with my English skill and when I asked her do she think i can transfer to English department, she honestly told me she don't think so. But luckily I become English department student and now I am in Murray. It is also irony. I studied Japanese since I wanted to go japanese university when I was in high school. Studying English is sometome make me feel tired and depressed often. Especially when I compared myself with Moonkyeng or JIhye and struggling with difficult words, I feel like I am a loser and doubt about my sucessness in this field. But it is true that it is the first time to change a lot of thing I wanted and challenge many things I didn't before. I like to learn now ^_^! fighting ^^

I got package from Moonkyeong and Suhee. In th box there was a lot of retort Korean food, cookies, and letters. I was really excieted about it. My mother is kind of person who insists if you go America you have to eat the food in there not in here. So after I came here I coudnt eat Korean food except Sinramen which I can buy in wal-mart. I am not kind of active person that I am not good at making friends. For instance from very young I was really shy people that the first friend I got in my life wasn't become friend with me because of me but because of my mom. When I and mom went back home at the first day to go elementary school, my mom find one girl who was heading to same apartment alone. My mom asked her is she first grade and she introduce me and told her why don't you become q friend with my daughter. So I am really horrible to make friends. I haven't talk to strange people from myself. All the friends of mine became friend with me sice they approached me at the first time. I don't have much confidence to talk to somebody worrying about whether they don't like me. It is not a day problems worrying about my social relationship. But thankfully even I don't have many of friend there was always really nice people aroud me whenever I had a problems. I really want to say my people that thank you to talkbto me at the fist time and let me know abou you and help me without reluctences. I love you guys so much.

V for Vendetta

Yester day my roommate was planning to go to lake at night with some of her friends including me. She planned playing guitar with bone fire before weather is getting more cold. She really good at playing guitars and singing. I was really exciting about it since I hears a lot that at night Kentucky lake is really beautiful with thousands of stars. However weather got really cold at that day that the plan was changed. We watched movie together which name is "V for Vendetta" In the movie the background is in November fifth. Main character V is tring to revolution the society againsting government's corruption with terror. He said people have to make government afraid of them not they are afraid the government. He said "remember remember November fifth" That was reason why my roommate chose the movie even go to three video stores to find it. I watched the movie but I didn't know it is based on real story and the meaningful special date that it was really interesting and fun. After I came back to dorm I searched about the real story which is "gun powder plot" However the real accident wasn't happen for good will. Some of people didn't like the next king who against the catholic that they want to kill the king and change. That was real story. It was kind of sad.

Hallowen

Everyever I can see pumpkins. Dorms provide students pumpkins to make jack o Lenten. Elizabeth college made spooky house from 1floor to 9 floor. People can enter the haunted dormitory. I didn't know I have to bring something to eat that I went there without bring something. Thankfully people infront of me gave share foods that I could get in. There was a number of people who wearing skeleton make up. It looks like real make me and friend scared. In the haunted house there are crazy and cruel surgeon doing experiment with people and screaming peoples. Also there are zombies who are following us and make us freaked out. From Snakes and spiders to Jason holding power saw, it was really scaly. At the very last time, frog was in my neck since I shouted a lot. A lot of people's costume was really interesting too; Wizards, fairly, cat, michelle Jackson, etc. It was really unique and fun experience.

appearence-oriented view in Korea

Moonkung and I often talk about our apearence. Many people agree that Korea have harsh appearence-oriented view. One people said that he knew he is really ugly from when he was elementary school student. He was often called "Hey! fugly". As he grown up and after got high academic ability, he realized that apperence is not that big deal in the life. However, at the end of his writing, he added that it was possible since he is not a woman but a man. It is really hard for ugly women to live in Korea.
Many women feel they are mistrited by some of men when it compared with other pretty women.There are many newpaper indicate that many people do the plastic surgery to get nicer jobs. Plastic surgery may can give confidence to people, but the problem is it become too normal that sometimes treated ugly women like a sinner who give a harm with their faces. I try to thought why it is really serious especially in Korea. I first thougt maybe because we have all the same color of eyes and haircolor that it is hard to express their own characteristic. Also, I thought that since Korea is country where only havemanpower resources and since except few people most of their ability is same that appearnce become one of the ability. Then why women's appearence are percieved important than men's? Since Korea have long history which is men support women and family, there are pretendence preferring pliable and pretty women than smart women. Women have to get out dependence on men and need to get out of decorating themselves since we don't need to be prety. Moonkyeng said the problem of Korea is although every person is heterogeneous, they bind themselves as homogenity and try to fit themselves in social rule.