Let's see, my first week went about as smoothly as a first week could. I finally got my uniform and people stopped staring as much, but every single person who passes me in the halls says "Hi" and it kinda makes me feel really....watched. I don't know. At least my class has gotten over the shock of having me. The classes are really hard, I mentioned Calc and Japanese, but I'm also in Chinese writing, Ethics, and, luckily, two different English classes.
This week, for the one day I've been there so far (I'll get to that in a second), I've been presenting to different English classes in my grade. It's really fun and I get to talk about all I do, but making the power-point with pictures of all my favourite people made me really homesick for the first time since I've been here. I think I'm about over this first little burst of homesickness. School has been really boring other than English class, and sometimes Japanese when the teacher tries to engage me, but other than that the teachers don't even acknowledge me most of the time which is fine with me, because it's not like I can understand anything right now, anyways. However, for the past two days, I've stayed home. Tuesday my district chair for Rotary had all the students stay home because of the typhoon. No big deal, just A TYPHOON. It created some really beautiful waves though? My host family also went to Seoul to send of my host sister to New York for the year. So I was home alone for majority of the day. Then, my lovely foreign exchange friend here from NC, came and rescued me from a night of solitude. We went to dinner with her host mom, and another foreign exchange student, Yasara, from Germany, and her host mom. It was really amazing, and we made Korean traditional candy that was like a lollipop in "Burnt Marsh-mellow" flavour. It was delicious. After that, Rosa and I went back to Rosa's and from there we walked up and down Gwangalli beach, where the Diamond bridge was lit up, and there were waves because of the typhoon, and it was like a scene from a movie, it was so beautiful.
Today, I woke up and my stomach just didn't feel very good. Neither did my head, so I stayed home from school and have been sleeping it off. It's 11am here, 14 hours from Illinois, in case you were wondering.
I think that's all the important stuff! Hope everything stateside and worldwide is fantastic.
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