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Jan Angeline <3 16 years old, off to South Korea for high school exchange! Other blog is : yaykorea.wordpress.com

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April 24: Apgujeong/압구정, Gangnam Station/강남역, YFU meeting

April 24: Apgujeong/압구정, Gangnam Station/강남역, YFU meeting

Okay for some reason, YFU decided to have a meeting in the middle of the week during school (4pm??????). Half the students go on Thursday and half on Friday depending on where you live. Since I live in Seoul, I went on Thursday. I think I’m one of the luckier ones though since some people have to travel over an hour by subway/bus to get to the YFU office….OTL

I got out of school pretty early…

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Hongdae (홍대)

The Hongkik University area (better known as Hongdae/홍대) is filled with fun stuff to do and my two exchange student friends (Madison and Judith) and I decided to just hang out around the area. We met up around 1 o’clock since the area is pretty dead in the morning and went to a cat café called Cat’s Attic.

For anyone who loves cats this is an awesome place to go to and just relax. :)

When we came…

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April 16: Pigu (피구) Tournament and a Care Package from Home

April 16: Pigu (피구) Tournament and a Care Package from Home

Ah Pigu.

An extremely terrifying (but still super fun) Korean version of dodgeball. It’s kind of hard to explain but I’ll try the best I can!

There are two teams. The playing area is like

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Lots of updates today!

Lots of updates today!

I am going to (attempt) to write about everything that’s happened since the last time I updated OTL

So that’s from April 16 and forward….

Haha stay tuned…….

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update

  I’ve decided to take a break on general life in Korea posts and write more about what life here as an American exchange student is like (the main reason I even made this blog). If things start to get a bit boring I suppose I can occasionally get back to life in Korea topics.

So….what have I even been up to lately? The cherry blossoms were in bloom two weeks ago! My friend and I went to Kyunghee…

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Being an Asian Exchange Student to an Asian Country (Philippines >> USA >> South Korea)

Being an Asian Exchange Student to an Asian Country (Philippines >> USA >> South Korea)

Being an Asian exchange student to an Asian country

  Okay, I’ve been wanting to write about this topic for a long time. I was worried about this subject way before I even left to Korea, and I tried to find a blogger online experiencing the same thing (high school student) but no luck, so I guess I’ll be the first one to write about this^^

By the way, if this post comes out as negative in anyway,…

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Couple Culture and Korean Fashion ^^

Couple Culture and Korean Fashion ^^

Couple culture.

I decided to make this topic one post because it is one of the things I’ve seen here that really shocked me at first. Yes, I have heard of couple outfits and whatnot, and I knew that some people like to show off that they are a couple. But seeing it in real life was really something.

Please don’t take this as a post of criticism. It’s just an observation. I think the idea is…

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Bulk Update, Part 2/3: Insadong!

Bulk Update, Part 2/3: Insadong!

  Today, Saturday, I met up with Madison and Judith, who exchange students with YFU. The two of them live out of Seoul but go to the same school. We wanted to find somewhere in between to meet up.  So, this morning, we met up in Insadong!

We met up at 10am and just walked up the street of Insadong. I’ve been to Insadong before school started, but this time I went with my exchange student friends!…

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One month in Korea! Bulk update: Part 1/3 Lotte World!

One month in Korea! Bulk update: Part 1/3 Lotte World!

  Hi people! Today, Saturday, March 22, 2014 is my one month mark in Korea. I officially arrived Saturday, February 22nd, so I can’t believe its been one month already! So to celebrate, I think I’ll do a multiple-part bulk update.

Let’s start with yesterday, March 21. Lotte World!!

For those of you that don’t knoe, Lotte World is basically a huge amusement park in Seoul, connected to the huge…

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Random post

Things happening lately

  So my second week of school has just finished. I really have no idea what to talk about here in my blog post so I guess I’ll just stick to school and the things about Korea I find cool. Sorry if this blog post ends up being completely random/disorganized.

It’s cool being an exchange student in school. I’m not talking about the fact that I don’t have to do work (even…

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Korean Schools & a Typical Day

Korean Schools & a Typical Day

Update!!

So I have no idea what to write about now haha, so I’m just gonna talk about school in general from the perspective of me, a humble yet clueless exchange student. Here goes:

So, basically, the first thing you should know is that my Korean is nowhere near good enough to be able to keep up with a regular Korean class in a regular Korean high school. I can’t even keep up with the English…

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School Schedule!! 수학 : math 영어 :English 미술: art 생명: life science/biology 과 A/B : science. Just science I guess…

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School!!

School!! http://wp.me/s3k6rw-school

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

  Today, Tuesday March 4th was my official first day of school in which I actually had classes. Korean schools are veryyyy different from schools in the US but still fun and pretty interesting. It didn’t take me long to learn that the students are separated into classes (my school has 10 for each grade). And each class then has a homeroom teacher.

So when homeroom starts, the…

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In Korea~ Traveling and My First Day

In Korea~ Traveling and My First Day

I`m here in Korea! After a lot of traveling I finally made it and everythings so exciting!

Lets start with travel. I flew from Dulles International Airport in Washington DC to Dallas/Forth Worth. It took about 3 hours which isn`t bad at all comparing it to the trip from Dallas to Korea.

Saying goodbye was hard. It didnt actually hit me right until my parents couldnt continue through to the…

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Street Food - Chicken skewers / Dakkochi (닭꼬치) by travel oriented on Flickr.

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let’s get the cliche pictures out of the way first… (the great getaway I)

gf1 / 20mm f1.7

digitals

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how to: 「totoro poptarts」