Cafe Venus

Mood : energetic
Music : Bring Me to Life by Evanescence

So I guess there was a welcoming ceremony. I don’t really remember much of the details — except the humiliating moment when they put my application photo up on the big blank screen for everyone to see. I was in a rush that day. Woke up with one of those bad hair days that didn’t look so bad in real life but didn’t translate so well on camera.

Anyway . . .
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Mood : touched
Music : Good Enough by Evanescence

I must admit after all the anxiety and wanting to sink my feet into the ground never to come here . . .

. . . Seoul broke my heart the very minute I saw her.
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Mood : optimistic
Tv : Highlander: The Raven

So I arrive in Seattle around 11:00 a.m. My flight’s not for another 3 hours or so but I want to find the gate where the Asiana flight to Seoul is departing. First place I check in the Seattle airport is TV screens which tell you which flights are leaving and departing. Incheon is not listed. Seoul is not listed. It seems that I only see 4 major carriers and a handful of small ones. I know nothing about this airport and worry that I have to get to another terminal like in Phoenix which could be an ordeal.
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Mood : exhausted

So I have survived a very arduous trip coming to Korea. We hung out with my mom the night before leaving. I popped awake at 1 a.m. and couldn’t go back to sleep on the day that I was supposed to leave. So at 3 a.m., Ian wakes up and starts making snacks for me. My mom worriedly hugs me good-bye as I head for Sky Harbor airport.
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So it’s finally coming up.  I’m about to leave for Korea in a little under two weeks.  I have to head out to the post office now to send out my visa, going express mail.  I hope it gets back here soon.

Part 1 General Remarks

a. Word order

SOV or OSV for emphasis, but verb is always at the end

제가 책을 읽습니다

Adjectives and adverbs precede the modified

바쁜 (busy) 시간 (time) – 바쁜시간 (busy time)

b. Absence of articles

c. Four styles: polite formal, polite informal, plain and intimate

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