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G.O.A.L

Yesterday, I went out for lunch with my friends from Koryo Univ. Then, Nacho and I (Nacho is a Korean big brother whom I met in Spain a few years ago) watched a movie "Once". It's an Irish movie with a lot of good songs. Not the conventional story and nice music... I liked it!

In the evening, I went to meet a friend of a friend. Her name is Myriam and she was adopted just like me. She grew up in France and now she's back in Korea for an internship with the G.O.A.L (Global Oversea Adoptees Link) association. This group was created by adoptees for adoptees and provides different services such as the search for the adoptee's birth parents, Korean tutoring courses, Visa obtention and such other things.

The president of the association, Daewon Wenger, talked to me briefly about what G.O.A.L does and about the scholarship and internship opportunities it offers to adoptees who come back to Korea. I gotta admit that it was somewhat exciting to think about it and I might be interested in going back in a few years and work for them.

How is everyone back home and everywhere else? I miss you guys.
I'll be in Japan in 4 days! :D
Keumerz @ 8:52 PM< [[ 0 comments ]]



Universities in Koreaaa

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Yesterday I spent the day at Koryo university (see pic.1), one of Seoul's top universities. Most of the friends whom I met in Spain attend it, actually. In pic 2, you can see Seunghye unni and Eunsun unni. Koryo's campus is quite recent and it's very vast. The courses are (surprisingly) offered in English despite the fact that most of the students/teachers are Korean.


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Picture 3 was taken in Kangnam, where I went for dinner with Eunsun unni and one of her friends. We had samgyopsal (lettuce wrap of grilled pork with a spicy sauce).

Picture 4 looks like picture 3 but it's two different areas. Picture 4 was taken in the northern part of the city, the area called Shinchon (close to University of Yonsei). I went there for dinner with Dahee (pic 5), a friend who came to McGill last year as an exchange student. We had sundubu jjigae (spicy tofu soup) with saengson (fish). Later we went to a place called Orange Sharp for ice cream!!! It was quite special, cuz there were pieces of sweet potatoes and fruits in the ice cream... At first it was a bit strange, but it was pretty good.

After dinner, we walked around the Yonsei campus. It is also quite a recent campus in terms of architecture. It is also a top university (in constant competition with Koryo) and it is famous for its Korean Language Institute and its medicine faculty, which dates back from the very creation of the university, when the Christian missionaries first came to Korea. Speaking of which, you can see (picture 8), the first building of the university. The rest is rather modern...
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So far so good... People still great. Food still good. Places to visit abundant. lol
I miss my friends at home though... just a little. (Talked to Winnie and Nanako today. Miss you guys!)
Keumerz @ 9:52 AM< [[ 0 comments ]]



In KOREA!

Well well... after a long trip (4 hours to Vancouver, then 12 hours to Incheon), I arrived safely and surely to Seoul! They gave me some trouble with my Visa when I entered, but in the end, I was okay... My friend Eunsun (은선) was waiting for me at the airport with the personal driver of her father... They gave me a lift to another friend's place (Seunghye's 승혜) where I'll be staying for another two days.

How can I describe my first impression of Korea? hmm. Difficult to say... I didn't expect anything special when I left, but actually... it's pretty awesome! People are nice, the food is delicious... The friends I hang out with these days are people whom I met in Spain 2 years ago. I was wondering how it would be to meet them again after 2 years and I am glad of how it turned out. They're taking really good care of me, driving me around, taking me shopping and teaching me Korean very patiently... (I learnt words like "strangle", "disgusting", "steal".. very useful ;) lol)

We stayed mostly in the Southern part of the city (kangnam 강남) and so I didn't really get to see any of the cultural sites... I also had to get used to the Jet lag, so I didn't stay up very late everyday... but... yesterday evening, we went up north, close to Hong Ik University for a concert. I gotta admit that I was pretty amazed when we crossed the bridge separating the north and the south of the city at night. The view was so beautiful!

There are many things that surprise and amaze me in this place... like... the buns seller on jammed roads at rush hour... or the super technological toilets... Or my friend's appartment, which has about as many rooms as my house, except all on one floor... Or the fact that all girls look similar and different at the same time?... lol I'm currently working on redoing my wardrobe to fit in better in this very peculiar society... Think I can do it?
Keumerz @ 3:16 AM< [[ 0 comments ]]



Losing it...

There's this song I really like, sang by Monkey Majik, "Long Shot Penny".
It says: "And now I'm falling down, my world is crumbling down. I wished that it would all become clearer."

Those 3 sentences summarize my life now. Haha, ironic isn't it? I'm paying the price of a lifetime of making fun of others and looking down on people who were depressed... God must be having a hell of a good laugh right now.

I made a mistake a few weeks ago. The kind of mistake I had never made and hopefully will never make again. Honestly, I've been regretting it everyday ever since. I can't be alone, yet the presence of others bother me. I was so desperate for sleep and comfort, I even prayed to God that He'd forgive me.... Nothing changed. My heart's hurting right now like it never did before and the pain grows a little more each day. Each decision I make seems to worsen it. Why?

My existence is full of "Why"s right now.
"Why not just move on? Why can't you just forgive yourself?" Some people asked me that.
I'm looking for the answer. Everyday.
For some reason, I'm surrounded by a lot of people... but I've never felt so alone. Why? Corneille was right. Je suis seule au monde.... I just wanna disappear right now. I just wanna go away from this place.
Keumerz @ 6:08 PM< [[ 0 comments ]]


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