A Date with Eyra and Freya on the First Two Days of School!!!

Yup..it's pretty crazy. I knew that it's the first day of school..sort of. ....after a month-long winter break. But there's this one particular movie that we hadn't seen, yet. 

this is it. We didn't have a chance to catch up with the continued narratives of this human-vampire love stories seen from the eyes of wonderful rendition of what's not impossible. 

The movie was ..of course..dubbed in Korean, for the kids would easily understand Korean than English. *sigh* but then...that's simply because they're getting used to talking and thinking in Korean. haha....I mean...it's their SPONGE-like nature...that they prefer Korean language....since it's their environment.

Ok..the story was that...we missed the movie when it came out last year...

so...once it came out again...I didn't want to let it slip again. Though it's screened at the CINEKIDS hahaha...I did my best to reserve 3 tickets for me and my daughters. And we did.

Boy...it's a small screen suited for children. and..hmm the lights weren't turned out during the whole movie....for the kids might get terrified when the lights were off. Yup..that's CINEKIDS.

anyway...we did see the Monster Hotel 2...a movie firstly appeared last year. But..since we didn't have a chance to see it, we did see it on Jan. 26. 

It's basically a multicultural family hahahaha...yup다문화가정에 대한 영화다. simply hilarious.

I got to pick Eyra from school at 4!! and the movie started at 4.15. and boy oh boy....had we not taken a cab, we would've come late. Even so, we did COME late to the theater. The good thing was that...we DID see the first 10-minute of the movie on TV ad....preview..so practically we didn't miss anything....

The kids loved it. It really taught us what a family made of different background should look like and should behave, act out, think in the face of adversity.

oh,,,sound rough and tough..nope..the movie's practically funny and easy to crunch...^^

개강모임 Spring Semester Got Pumped Up

The first week of the Spring semester. As par of out tradition to start the semester, we gathered at one place, mostly restaurants, where we had talks over dinner. It should've been a formal occasion, but since we want to 'melt it down' a bit..so we'd thought of having it at a restaurant. Here we were. Having a blast by engaging in talks, chit-chats, and of course some ceremonial *ahem*speeches from our representative professors. Prof. Cho and Prof. Bak attended the meeting--they're welcoming the freshmen to our department--as well as letting us--seniors *ahem* to introduce ourselves to others. 

I should've been in the pic. no...not necessary. 

We just wanted to make sure that the so-called 'initiation' process of welcoming new students and encouraging them to study and enjoy campus life...would be a two-hour program worth-remembering. Most of us are foreigners since our program is Korean Studies designed for international students. We're from Indonesia (only me:), Thailand, Vietnam, The United States, Russia, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Japan, Turkey, Tunisia, and of course, Korea...although they only make up for almost one-fifth of our friends.

*Welcome to the new semester, guys.*

My ramblings on the the first day of school! ~.~

First day ever...Yup, we're ready for (supposedly) spring semester.

(**ㅋㅋㅋ Spring hasn't arrived...not just YET). What a commotion. As for me, I was gasping for air...(surely not literally) since I got to find where the 역사관 building--where my first class was to be held--was. Couldn't believe that 역사관 turned out to be--all along--the very building where all of international students go to have their paperwork checked & re-checked...oh..it's an international building...but how come that it's called 역사관 in Korean.

Anyway..that's not an important issue to discuss here. What I'd like to jot down right here is about what I finally signed up for the semester. Just like what I did in the previous semester (when I daringly took Economics-major class 아하!!!), this semester I finally got to pull off my nerves to take this Gender-issue related class. Way off the line of what I am used to be studying. But...it turned out...well..to be a very challenging, yet enthralling class in a way that most of the reading materials are sort of eye-opener to the subjects I've never touched before. --and there's one thing that I already like about the class, my professor manages the class in English:)...oh..it's gonna be a relief from most of the other classes--- taught in Korean.

Okay..it's still the first day of the first week. I still got to face the other two classes dealing with ASEAN & Indian studies. hmm...wait...that's not my cup of tea, either. But, simply out of having to take the course due to my being Indonesian:) learning at this school....I got no choice but to take the option. Hey...I'm sure it's gonna be as helpful and interesting as any other subjects I am interested in. Just wait and see.
And the last class....wow...gosh.."Advanced theories of ............." gee....just by the thought of its name....it gives me shivers and bumps...but...wait..I got no choice but to take it as well. (Right, Suray?). Yeeeeaaap.But, I wanted to take THIS class in the first place. I mean...I got to take it ...hoping that it might or will help me shape my ideas of what to do research upon......more concretely.....in ways I never thought of before.

Bismillahirrohmanirrohim. I am ready to do the challenges. 

New Semester Starts Today

오전 09.05....
개강이니까 일찍 학교에 왔는데....첫날에는 아는 사람 하나도 못 봤다. ㅋㅋ 괜찮다. 단 수업에 분명히 아는 친구가 있어야 하죠 뭐. 아직 9월초이지만 날씨가 벌써 이렇게 선선하고...시원하고....하늘이 찐 프르게 밝았고...와...기분이 진짜 ...완전 좋아. 표현할 수 없을 정도로 이런 느낌이 ..어떻게 그려야 할지 몰라. 아무튼 오늘은 개강이라서....긍정적인 생각만 가지고 ...늘 한 학기 동안 즐겁고 열심히 공부하겠다.
*드디어 방금 수강 변경이 성공했다. 근대...신청하고 싶은 과목이 많아 가지고 딱 3개 만 골라야 해서..고민했어. 어떻게 하죠.. 참 재미있는 (있는 것 같은^^) 과목이 많아서 ...못 살아...^^:) 공부욕심이 많아 봐나? 아니야...근양...시간이 조금 있어 보여서 낭비하면 아깝다는 소리야. (수라이..이거 진짜 너야? 와..완전 변했어....네 conscience 갑자기 방금 살아 났다.)

오전 11.00
랩실로 들어가자마자....
"오랫만이다.."
"와....오래만이야....."
"와...방학 잘 보냈니?"
"수라이....잘 지냈어?"
hmmm....진짜 거의 비슷한....반복된 인사를 들었다..
화이팅 , 수라이!!! Bismillahirrohmanirrohim.