Hi everyone! Looking at my blog's stats I can see lots of people daily visit my blog even they do not say anything here :) It has been around 6 months since I stopped frequently updating my blog and I heartily apologize to everyone. Lots of things happened to me since that time. The most important was my preparing for a graduate school and moving to Seoul. I miss Daejeon very much, it will always be my second hometown, after my original hometown. I was born again in South Korea and had my second "childhood" in Daejeon. But, Seoul is a place with more opportunities for everyone, it's a place where you grow up, learn new things and it's a very nice place in all areas and fields. I am very excited to live in Seoul. I am going to start exploring the heart of S.Korea as soon as possible and I will try to share with you all my experiences while living here.
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| Ewha Campus Center (ECC) |
At first, I want to briefly introduce you my new academic home. I go to Ewha Womans University (EWU). Yes. Womans, not women. Ewha is a sino-Korean term for pear blossom. While the use of "womans" is unconventional, it has a special meaning. The early founders of college thought that every woman in this community is worth being respected, so they chose the word "woman" avoiding lumping students together under the word "women." Putting the additional "s", they completed the meaning of plural. So, I think I'm kinda special here lol.
Ewha Womans University (이화여자대학교) is a private women's university in central Seoul. It is one of the city's largest institutions of higher learning and currently the world's largest female educational institute. It is one of the best-known universities in South Korea, and often considered to be the top women's university. Ewha was founded in 1886 by the American Methodist Episcopal missionary Mary F. Scranton.
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| Here's my class schedule :) |
Many my friends keep asking me why do I go to a women's university, did my boyfriend insist on this decision? lol. No. My boyfriend always supports any decision I make and he would never force me to do something like that. I chose Ewha Womans University, because it has a very good reputation. Also, the department of Korean Studies at the EWU is very popular and it is the top institution among with others, which specialize on Korean Studies.
Out department divides into two divisions: Korean Language and Korean Culture. My major is Korean Culture. The reason why I chose my major was that I have been interested in Korean culture for a long time, that's why I also started writing the blog and I fell in love with Korean culture even more while blogging :)
It is my first semester and my classes seem to be very interesting. That's all for now, c ya soon :)
Recently, I, Michael and some our friends had an awesome trip together to one of the most beautiful places in South Korea, Baekyangsa. Baekyangsa or Baegyangsa is a very old temple, and it's said it's also a head temple of Korean Buddhism. Baekyangsa in Korean means white sheep and refers to a legend from the Goryeo period in which a white sheep came down from the mountain to listen to a sermon, and was sufficiently enlightened that it was able to ascend into Paradise.
