"You're doing it wrong"

Ah, the phrase. It's been a good companion this past week or so. I've never been to Korean English class, but from what I've experienced it must be the first phrase taught to young Koreans. In the past few days, I've learned the correct way to do many things...like how to mix my food yesterday, take the "even floor only" elevator and get past the "push only" door. Such things wouldn't be a problem if I could read Korean. Or had common sense.

Despite such issues, I am beginning to feel more at home here. Locating my classroom is a cinch (woot :p), I've gone off-campus without becoming terribly lost, and I've used a Korean phone with some sufficient level of skill! It is all quite wicked, as my British peers would say. Today's challenge was to find and use the campus ATM...and I was half successful. It was victorious this round, but it shall taste my vengeance soon! haha. It shall offer up its many units of Korean won sometime...maybe after I take a nap.

In other news...I was saddened to find no midget bananas in the cafeteria today...they're some of the few things I can actually identify among the options there. In a supposedly "fair" substitution, though, there WAS banana milk. Maybe it's a special day in the cafeteria...I have yet to see. There are many things I have yet to see and experience. This weekend, for example, all the international kids are going to Gimhae, one of the historical districts in South Korea and hometown to my roommate, Jeongmin. I am looking forward to meeting the rest of the foreigners...I don't even know how many of us there are! As odd as it may sound, I rather enjoy being a minority. Is that weird? Perhaps. But who wouldn't be pleasantly taken aback by being informed that one's hairstyle looks like those of fictional comic book characters? I may not know much about Korea, but I think that counts as a compliment. Similarly, a "you're doing it wrong" comment is almost affectionate...or maybe that's just in my case. Anyway...the field trip should be pretty cool. I only hope that there's "push only" doors and even-floor elevators. Cuz I'm totally a pro at those.