Good News + First Day of Lectures

Well first I have good news.  I got an SD card reader that I plug directly into my computer via USB, so very soon I will have pictures on my blog.  yay!  I bought it from Lotte Mart (which I will go into later, but basically it's awesome).  So it'll prolly be one of the next couple posts where I recap everything I have talked about in the blog with photos.

I was really close to being caught up, but then I got lazy on Saturday, so I am now five days behind again.  So here we go!!!!

Thursday was the first day of lectures.  During orientation, we hear several lectures a day.  The lectures are 1-2 hours each and every hour we get a 20 minute break.  so basically I am taking classes from 9 until 5:40.  but it's not so bad.  some of the lectures are really interesting.  Day 1 of lectures consisted of the following:

TaLK life
Understanding Korea
Korean History & Society
Traditional Korean Painting
Explore Korea: How to Survive
Korean Paper Craft

The TaLK life lecture was given by a 3rd generation TaLK scholar (I am 6th gen), so she has been teaching for a year and a half.  basically, she was one of the best teachers I have seen, and that intimidates me lol because I don't think that I can be that good.  but I suppose it is something to strive for right?

The other lectures were pretty normal, I learned more about Korean Society and such.  I was quite terrible at the Korean painting, so I will NOT be showing you that.  I will gladly show you the final product of my Korean Paper Crafts lecture.  Granted, all we really did was cut the eyes and then glue a bunch of stuff on, but it looks decent and that's all that really matters in the end.  All the guys in the class made males and the girls females, and they both wore hanboks, which is a traditional formal outfit for Koreans.  So here is mine.  I haven't named him yet, though I'm not sure if I will.

isn't he cute?