It couldn’t have gone much better, in fact.

I got to the local university we’re partnered with, Inje U, just after classes. Met one friend, chatted for a bit. Met another after that…and surprisingly, he teaches a Korean class. He invited me to sit in with it. And though I suspect it’s largely the novelty of it (everyone else in the class in Chinese), the classmembers seemed to like it and I’ve been invited back for tomorrow. And after that, I met yet another friend and practiced some more conversation.

A little more on the class. Well, grammar-wise I’m far, far beyond them. But, as I had the disadvantage of studying only in America… They’ve got much more vocab and their pronunciation is better, so I still learned quite a bit. And a review of grammar never hurts.

One more thing I want to say though. We Americans tend to catch a lot of flak for not knowing much geography outside of the states–or, going by the stereotype, any at all. Well, after that class, I really don’t think anyone’s in a position to criticize us. My teacher friend thought California was on the East Coast, no one knew where New York was (let alone Utah), or Las Vegas, etc etc. Which was fine really, it was fun to teach them the basics of US geography, but if you’re ever thinking of launching a volley of stones, make sure your own artillery site isn’t glass!

I’ve also made a number of new connections today, nothing solid with friends yet but over the next few I think it’ll develop. It’s nice, things are finally taking off.

In a way I dread my transfer. I’ll have to start all over again in two weeks…

But that’s life really. I’m really glad it’s starting picking up so well here and now.

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