Future | Golden Zephyr

16 Days...

Beautiful Lotus Lantern

I leave for Korea in 16 days! I still haven’t been able to send the money to Lotus Lantern for the TempleStay program–but I hope that they reply to my email with the needed information soon! I guess I could just show up and pay them on the spot–but I’m not sure [...]

HomeStay Korea

I found a great service today for anyone traveling (either for a short of longer time) to Korea. It’s called “HomeStay Korea” and allows travelers to arrange to stay with families in the city of their choice. I searched by location, gender and religion and was surprised by the large amount of choice I had. [...]

신나요!

I’m starting to get very excited right now. I still haven’t heard from the Temple of my choice for the Temple stay, but I do have time even in Korea to work that out, so I’m not worried. Just, butterflies in my stomach every time I think about Korea!

My husband contacted his cousin Jinwoo (진우) [...]

The inevitable

I’ve been thinking of what is going to happen after I graduate in the fall. I need to either go to graduate school or get a job (or maybe even both~!) Problem is, I’ve no idea what jobs are out there. In order to work for the US government I’d need to be a citizen–which [...]

Updates

So far I have only added one page under a new section called Korean language. This contains some basic information about the demographics of the language, as well as the very basics of grammar. I’m currently working on Hangul and pronunciation. I hope to be able to incorporate some of the great video and audio [...]

Everything at once~!

I discovered that I can apply for a research fellowship–as long as I get myself a faculty advisor and research topic (and proposal) ready by the 17th March. @_@ What am I trying to do to myself here? So far, the only topic I have come up with is “Language, identity, and religion—Korean Buddhist Literature [...]

Snow, snow and more snow!

It’s still snowing~! We’re supposed to get another 10″ on top of the remaining 5 or so from the last snow storm (which gave us about a foot). It’s pretty much a white-out right now!! Glad that they canceled my school, that’s for sure!

In other news, I made the Korean Blog List so I’m super [...]

By means of...

I got my Sogang acceptance letter today:

Sogang Acceptance Letter $_$

It’s all pretty exciting.I sent off the documents for the Sogang Scholarship–now I just have to wait. I also have two scholarships to apply for through my university–which I need to get done ASAP. All in all it’s pretty crazy. I’m still working out if [...]

Asked already…

I was asked by Phil Void from the Dharma Bums to aid in translating their “Rangzen, Free Tibet” song into Korean. Of course, being the silly goose I am, I said SURE!! So, now I need to find 수민 하고 민영 to help me! I also posted a “please help” on lang-8 hoping that someone [...]