Thinking, thinking

Well, today followed every other day's pattern. I got up, went to class, had the "quiz" I thought we would have (think I did pretty well on it), and then came back to my room. I skyped with my old roommate Jenny for about an hour, which while it being so good to see her, put me behind schedule.

My dowoomi contacted me and cancelled our dinner date. Which was a good thing and a bad thing. I was trying to figure out if and how I can get from Seoul to Pusan next weekend for the international fireworks festival. It was good that she cancelled because it gave me time to look up my options, but bad because it put me in a bad mood and made me kind of mopey because no matter which way I look at it, I don't think I can get there in time on Friday to see much (it gets very busy)of the festival and see Jihye (program coordinator from last year). It's also going to cost me a pretty penny I think. So, now I'm in a pickle about what to do and the time frame for deciding is starting to get to me. (I am planning on staying at a spa overnight-if I do go- so I don't have to worry about reservations, though the spa might be very, very crowded.)

My roommate went home for the night, so it is nice to have the room to myself. I can practice some of my speaking and not worry about disturbing her. I've also had my "insomnia" return so the past few nights I've just been tossing and turning, not being able to do anything since she is sleeping. If I cannot sleep tonight, I can just turn the lights back on and study.

For dinner, I was really craving Mandu (fried dumplings). I went in search of a shop that might have them. I ended up going to a little street stall close to my residence. I ordered 3 of them for 1,000 W and kimchi cheon (cheon is like a 'pancake' but not sweet like our pancakes, more just in the manner that it is made and cooked- batter with, in this case, kimchi). The kimchi cheon was probably the size of a 9" pizza-but flat, flat. My total came to 3,000W! I brought the food back and ate in my room.

I was able to work with my Rosetta Stone, review chapters 1-4; 5 is just a review, so I'm guessing Friday we'll already be on chapter 6. We are clipping along; today the teacher also put a note up on the board telling us that midterms will be November 8 and 9. What?! Midterms? Already? That is crazy. I also reviewed in the level 1 textbook just to brush up on the concepts in that book.

A pretty successful study day. Good night friends!

Mandu on the left, kimchi cheon in the middle and tofu on the right