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Midterms are over today!
and Sports Day is coming around... I'll post some pictures then.
It's a day when each department gets together and we hold tournaments- I'm in the girls' kickball team.
it's pretty fun, with all those 'department spirit' around.
just when I feel like relaxing after a tough month preparing for midterms..
190 days left till the SATs!
and I've just realized how I'm living such a different life from my friends in Fullerton. They'll never be able to fully understand the kind of stress or small everyday happiness I experience in this not-so-eccentric town of Daejeon, Korea. Enjoying the warmth of Spring in the bus going home on weekends when school finishes early, having pizza delivered to school as dinner, studying with friends in classrooms until 11 at night, crying over end-of-term results that go directly into your application for college and having a friend comfort you, worrying over uniforms being too loose and going to the tailor's to have them shortened without letting your mom know, going to after-school institutes and academies and stopping by 7-Eleven for a quick snack at twelve at night, guys borrowing girls' soaps and cleansers after P.E.,,, No matter how much I explain, they'll never be able to imagine how my life is. And I'll never be able to know how high school life in Troy is. I have no other life besides the one I live in school, but I don't feel trapped or frustrated because no one I know is off the track, everyone's living the same life, with tiny details that vary. Life in Orange County is nothing like the one in Daejeon. Of course, these are two very different countries, and two teenagers living in each side of the world would have no idea how the other guy/girl lives.
but I like it this way, we have so much to learn from each other.
and Sports Day is coming around... I'll post some pictures then.
It's a day when each department gets together and we hold tournaments- I'm in the girls' kickball team.
it's pretty fun, with all those 'department spirit' around.
just when I feel like relaxing after a tough month preparing for midterms..
190 days left till the SATs!
and I've just realized how I'm living such a different life from my friends in Fullerton. They'll never be able to fully understand the kind of stress or small everyday happiness I experience in this not-so-eccentric town of Daejeon, Korea. Enjoying the warmth of Spring in the bus going home on weekends when school finishes early, having pizza delivered to school as dinner, studying with friends in classrooms until 11 at night, crying over end-of-term results that go directly into your application for college and having a friend comfort you, worrying over uniforms being too loose and going to the tailor's to have them shortened without letting your mom know, going to after-school institutes and academies and stopping by 7-Eleven for a quick snack at twelve at night, guys borrowing girls' soaps and cleansers after P.E.,,, No matter how much I explain, they'll never be able to imagine how my life is. And I'll never be able to know how high school life in Troy is. I have no other life besides the one I live in school, but I don't feel trapped or frustrated because no one I know is off the track, everyone's living the same life, with tiny details that vary. Life in Orange County is nothing like the one in Daejeon. Of course, these are two very different countries, and two teenagers living in each side of the world would have no idea how the other guy/girl lives.
but I like it this way, we have so much to learn from each other.