Wednesday, July 9, 2008

KgtK Part 6: Does anyone know why I'm learning Korean?

I really should blog more often, because now I don't know where to start.

If you have been checking my facebook, you know that I have become pretty good friends with this kid name Derek. We basically do everything together. We meet each other during each break between classes, eat lunch, walk to Tea Kwan Do, walk home, meet up for dinner, and study together. When we don't have homework or class, we go shopping and site seeing. This Saturday we are taking a Calligraphy class, and the next we are going on a hike. Its weird cause I don't think I've ever had a friend who I did everything with. That usually isn't my style. Like at summer camp, girls would pair off and do all their activities together, but I was always too independent to be okay with that.

Derek is really cool though. We are very loud and spastic together. Or maybe, I am just my usually spastic self, and he is okay with that. Its nice to not have to worry about toning myself down all the time. We also sing Tegan and Sara songs together. Like, he'll sing, and I'll do the piano parts, or I'll sing and he will do back up. We basically rock.

On the academic level, I feel like my Korean's not getting better. And even though I want to learn Korean more and more, I know less and less why. Does anyone know why I'm learning Korean? If you do, please let me know.

5 comments:

Nathan Bixler said...

Did you end up getting transferred to the higher class?

Carrie said...

I think being there is as much about learning the context of the culture in which the language is spoken as well as improving. Are you speaking to must people in English or Korean?

Carrie said...

And too much Tegan and Sara for you! You need all the folk with less of the angst!

Katy Ruth said...

yeah, i got moved up a level. Level 2 section 2 for me!

Katy Ruth said...

oh, and yes, im speaking mostly in engish. except for with my roommate. we like to mix it up cause neither my korean nor her english is really good.