Bug Bites, Postcards, and Fish Eating

  Just about two weeks ago I was laughing at my friend Rosa, who was scratching her leg after receiving what seemed like her billionth bug-bite, and now... let's just say I understand her pain now. I have amassed a grand total of 21 demon bites, and my hatred for the little buggers has increased substantially. On a positive note, I find it helps my vocabulary to describe how fed up I am with their existence ("But what purpose do they serve?!")...or maybe that's just my complete immersion in literature as of late.
     So far, in the past 12 days of school, I have inhaled The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Lovely Bones, The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, The Foreign Exchange Survivor's Guide, and the first three books in the Harry Potter series, with the rest to be completed this next week, I expect. I really have nothing else to do in classes other than read and revise my Korean notes. I just can't keep up with the Korean curriculum yet, due to my lack of language training. However, with my Korean classes having started this Monday, I have made great leaps in reading. Once I learn the rest of the alphabet (there's no song, I'm afraid) then I'm going to re-read The Great Gatsby in Korean, I bought a copy with both versions, and then go from there.

    Not only have I kept busy with my reading, but I've also kept quite busy outside of school as well, This week I started Korean on Monday and then went out to a lovely little dinner with the other exchangers.

     Tuesday, school was cancelled because of city-wide testing, and we had no extra class, so I woke up an went to lunch with Rosa(US) and Myriam(Canada-the french part) at Gwangalli, a really pretty beach near Rosa's house, then the three of us went to Haeundae, another famous Busan beach, to meet Yasara(Germany) and almost all the other foreign exchange students for a little birthday celebration for Yasara! It was really fun, and both beaches were beautiful.

                              Wednesday we had another round of Korean classes, and then went to dinner again.

     Thursday, Myriam, Emilie(France), Mike(Canada-the English part), and I went to the Busan aquarium which was so fun! There were sharks, and I couldn't help but make Spongebob and Nemo references almost the whole time. There were belugas and jellyfish, and afterwards we went and ran around on Haeundae, which was really fun, since I love the beaches here so much!

   By Friday, I just went straight home after Korean class to sleep. Today (Saturday), I went to an International Travel Fair at BEXCO(top left), it was quite entertaining, and I picked up a lot of free food, including a dried little fish(bottom left). It took me like 5 minutes to finally eat the thing, and while I was eating it, it wasn't bad, but the aftertaste....let's just say I ran for some soda after that. I'm just proud I ate it, and also that I held it down.   I also got some free postcards there, and I plan on sending out some overdue mail.  
I get to climb and mountain tomorrow.

Hope everything stateside and worldwide is good!