[Night Out Part] A Day of Uni Students in Korea

Grace from Korea here.

Yes, I've done much sleeping last night. Since I know if I put editing the video behind, I will never going to edit it, so I've just finished making the part two.

Part one was about campus tour, college thing, and the part two is about just hanging out (FYI, almost eating..)

Hope you guys enjoy it.

And I know this is not the only way university students spend their Friday night, but I'm pretty sure most of the girls would love to go out for dinner and go karaoke. 

Here's the video.

I hope to see you soon with another interesting video, or writing :D

Enjoy your weekend !

A Day of University Students in Korea

Grace from Korea here.

I've been doing camp counselor position at Junior English Camp during vacations since last winter, and I was lucky to have an amazing friends from there. Especially Alex, and Annie. We got close to each other doing 1month camp counselor job. We're all going to same university, only majors are different.

Well.. It turned out Alex is planning to go to America next month as an exchange student so I was wondering if we make a video before she leaves as our special memory! They were all happy with my opinion and that's how we make this video.

[ A Day of University Students in Korea ]

Hope you guys enjoy this video, I will come back with the next video this weekend.

Yes.. I need to sleep first.. It's 6:30 in the morning here.

Good night :D

#November, My Favourite Month of the Year

Grace from Korea here.

Hi guys, how've you been?

I know some countries are almost quite hot over the year, but in Korea, it's getting chilly these days. My favourite season, WINTER, is actually coming!! yay (Not everyone would be happy about it, but for me, yesss)

Actually, in this month, November, there's my birthday. (haha) Maybe that's why November is my favourite month of the year. Of course I had a great time this year as well, but, I don't know.. I think it's getting less special to have a birthday celebration as we're getting older. Or maybe it's just me.

All of my friends would know that I'm a huge fan of flower bouquets.

Y

es I had a great time. Thank you all.

Well, my birthday is November 11th, and it's kind of one of the lovers' day in Korea, like the Valentine's Day. There's a famous snack? pretzel? in Korea, called 'PEPERO'. They're sticks coverd with chocolate. Since November 11th is 11.11, it looks like a line with sticks, so it became kind of a traditional(?) for young people (also some of the adults too) to give Pepero to lovers and confirm their feelings for each other.

These are Peperos.

So, November 11th is the Pepero Day in Korea. Instersting, right?

I know there's a similar snack in Japan, called 'Pocky' and it seems like they are celebrating kind of a Pocky's Day in Japan, too. I'm sure it's all made up from companies of snacks, but it's still fun.

Yes, since my birthday is also Pepero Day, I've been eating a lot of Peperos on my birthday every year. Many friends were giving me Peperos as a birthday gift !! Thanks to them, it helped me a lot to gain extra weight. haha X)

It's already November 25th, my favourite month is almost passed by...

What are your plans for the winter?(or summer for you guys down there)

I can not wait to do another English Camp this winter ! Can't wait to see those beautiful kids again.

I hope to ace my final exam and enjoy the vacation with full of laughter :)

I'll let you know !

The Martian

Grace from Korea here.

Yesterday was the release date of The Martian  so I went out to watch it with my friends last night.

These are movie tickets. Movie tickets were used to be a thick, coated papers in Korea but they've changed to thin, kind of receipt.

I was looking forward to watching The Martian because I was very impressed by 'Interstellar' and got fascinated by the movies about the universe out there. I was so excited!!!!!! yay

The Martian

During a manned mission to Mars, 

Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. 

But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. 

With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, 

wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

Source (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/)

No spoiler !

So I will only say that it was beyond my expectation. It was even so much better than I expected. Smart, thrilling, and surprisingly funny XD

I'm going to watch it one more time as 3D next week !!! Can't wait :)

I'm sure you will enjoy watching it too !

Happy Holiday ! Korean Thanksgiving "Chuseok"

Grace from Korea here.

It's been a long time coming :0

We had a long weekend in Korea because it was Korean Thanksgiving day "Chuseok" last Sunday. When it's Chuseok, we have 3 days off including the day of Chuseok. This time, since it was on weekend, we had Tuesday off too. It was long~ weekend x)

Normally, everybody visits their families during the holiday. But I didn't go to Seoul to visit my family.. I was lazy.. and had lots of assignments to do.. :(

But I was quite satisfied with having chance to read many books after long time.

Yay. Reading time ! haha

The only thing I missed a lot was the traditional Korean Chuseok dish, 'Songpyeon'.

(Sorry mum, of course I miss my family all the time)

It's rice cake, stuffed with sweet things. It's sticky and very tasty.

The day of Chuseok, families gather around and make Songpyeon together.

Yes.. I missed that warmness so much last weekend :(

But it's okay.. I'll look forward to having a New Year's feast. haha

Anyway..

Happy Chuseok everybody ! :D

Practicing Speaking English by Shadow Reading

Grace from Korea here.

I practiced speaking English by shadow reading. :D

The original video I practiced was Oprah's speech video that she told Harvard graduates ; <There is No Such Thing as Failure>

Oprah's speech video from English Central

As usual, English is difficult.. haha :-p

I got to think again that we have to keep practicing reading English !!

Because learning English is always hard for who are learning English as a second language.. right?

Here's my 'Before' audio that I recorded.

Grace's shadow reading - Before

Let me write down the subtitles of speech here.

<There is No Such Thing as Failure>

by Oprah

I know that you all might have a little anxiety now

and hesitation about leaving the comfort of college

and putting those Harvard credentials to the test.

But no matter what challenges or setbacks or disappointments you may encounter along the way, you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal.

There really is only one, and that is this :

to fulfill the highest, most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.

You wanna max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you.

Theologian Howard Thurman said it best.

He said, "Don't ask yourself what the world needs."

"Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that,

because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

And here's my 'After' audio !

Grace's shadow reading - After

What do you think?

Did it get better? :)

I need to keep on practicing and I will !

Why don't you try ?

And the website I used, 

English Central is a very great website to learn English !

Please check it out.

See you soon ~ :D

Preferred Careers in Korea

Grace from Korea here.

Continued to last posting, I would like to talk about 'jobs', especially 'preferred careers in Korea' today.

I remember, when I was an elementary school student, my classmates dreamed to be a singer, lawyer, soccer player and even president. Many girls wanted to be a pop star, they practiced dancing and singing after school. I also remember boys had so much passion about sports. They were always kicking balls after lunch and PE class was their favorite.

But a recent study shows quite different result from my childhood. Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training studied students aged from 12 to 18. What do you think the most preferred career for students was?

Well.. Elementary school teacher ranked first place.

Doctor ranked second,

and government employee ranked third.

It's been few years that students choose an elementary school teacher as their dream job.

It seems like they are greatly influenced by their parents because the same research for parents had the same result.

The top 3 reasons why they chose those jobs as their dream job were

1. It's stable.

2. It's less stressful job than others.

3. It's high-paying job.

Obviously nowadays in Korea,  young people prefer having stable job to challenging one. I can understand because I've been hearing things like 'You need to get a stable job like a teacher so that you can get married well'.. It's public social mood in Korea.

So, I would like to know what your dream job is and why, also public standard that people choose a career as their dream jobs.

How is it like in your country?