A normal day in Southkorea

So since my mother asked and I have time right now I am going to write about a normal schoolday in South Korea. (Computer classes ^^) Mama, I'll answer to your email later ^^

Every morning I have to get up at 6 o'clock in the morning. When I wake up it is still dark and since it's fall now it's cold. but since I am not a evening-shower-person I have to get up and go to take a shower. Our bathroom is really cold. So the hardest step in the morning is from my warm room into the cold. I started washing my hair everyday since I came here (in the summer it was so hot that I had to) and now my hair is so used to it that it looks bad when I don't do it. I am waiting for days hen I don't have to go out to cut it back a little. because too much washing is not good for my poor hair~~
So after shower I put my schooluniform on and pack clothes to change into later. Then I blowdry my hair and eat. At 7 I have to leave the house and walk to the subway station, which takes me about 15 minutes. then I ride the subway for about 35 minutes, including me changing from line 2 to line 1.
Subway rides are still kind of a story of itself. You never know who you might see. There are a few people who a mostly in the same part of the train as me. And today
I realised that someone takes the exact same way as me every morning. You see beautiful people. Weird people. Nice people. Lost foreigners. Everything ^^ even people who are not even people in superman costumes.

So I am at school 5 minutes before the English listening starts. When the listening starts I mostly start studying Korean. And that is what I keep doing during the other classes as well. For about 5 hours a day. That sounds a lot and it is. So I don't study for 5 hours straight, i might sleep in between if my head hurts (yes during the lessons.. That's what my classmates do as well) I might try to figure out what the teacher is explaining. It mostly works in maths and chemistry, sometimes in biology and english (my english lessons just have too much korean in them) and i don't stand a chance in the other subjects, because I never had korean literature or a dfferent korean literature class. Computer classes and writing class are mostly just do-whatever-you-want lessons. In chinese I pay attention but It is hard to learn another language in a language that you don't know too well yet~~
We have lunch at school, I can hardly eat anything that they serve, because I am a vegetarian and they get meat everyday. I started to pick the vegetables out, but they taste like meat and I don't like that.. so I eat very little at lunch and buy food once I left school.

After school I meet the other exchange students from my school and the three of us walk to the subway together, where we dissappear into the bathroom to change. Because our next stop it the university where we study Korean and Taekwondo. On Korean days we have hardly any time in between so changing, buying food and getting to the university is all that we can do until class starts again. On Taekwondo days we have about 2 hours extra. So we can explore a little, study more korean, or talk to students at the university. What is, to be honest, what I like best ^^ Making new friends and learning by doing~~

Korean class is changing right now. at first it was way too easy and we complained. Now we, the good people, just get sheets and do them on their own, while the teacher explains things to others.. somehow this is not right either. I asked my korean literature teacher (my homeroom teacher, the old man from the picture in seoul) to help me out. I did not fully understand his korean explaination but it still helped a lot. I will start asking my teachers to help me when my classmates have selfstudy ^^

Taekwondo is still fun and the only sport I do. I am happy that we have teaching assitants. I like them a lot and we have a lot of fun together. (For those who use kakaotalk, in my new profile picture it's me with the two female assitants.

After class I hardly ever go straight home. I mostly go to a cafe with my friends. We might study korean together but mostly we just talk. Because we already studied all day and we are not korean ^^ We are not used to study all day ^^

I mostly come home at 10:30 which is the time I have to be home. And when I come home I mostly just wash up and go to sleep. Or I might talk to my host family or some korean friends over kakaotalk or on the phone ^^ all in korean, mostly ^^ Because I know better korean than most of them know english.. Or maybe I am just more confident in talking xD

So this is just a normal day in my life here ^^

(this was requested by my mom, as you know, so if you have any questions feel free to just ask me~~~)