Amy's Adventure to Inje: Busy Day

Kindergarten was a lot of fun! The teacher's assistant asked me to go through the alphabet and the sounds the letters make with the class. After we went through the letters, we decorated cut outs of the letters. Then on to Conversation class. We had a quiz in there-I got 56/60 right! :)

Our movie class had another intense movie. I just have to get used to the fact that they all will be. I'm not usually a fan of war movies, so it's a bit of an adjustment. This movie was called "Silmido" and was loosely based off of true events during the 70's. The North Koreans attempted to assassinate the South Korean president. Afterward, the South Koreans wanted to retaliate and trained 30 criminals on death row to go on a suicide mission to assassinate Kim Il-Sung. At the last minute, their mission was called off and the higher authorities wanted all of that special tasks team "eliminated"; the higher authorities gave the operations leaders an ultimatum: eliminate the team or be killed along with them. After 3 years of training and working together, it was hard for the leaders and soldiers to kill their trainees, but worried about their own lives, decided it was the best option. They had a big battle with the trained criminals winning. They escaped the island they were living on and went to Seoul on a bus. Finally, they were tracked down and fired upon and they ended up blowing up the bus with them on it. It is said that an investigation was carried out, but the report was filed away unread. It was also kind of a sad and bloody movie, but interesting all the same. Oh! How could I forget? Milan and Megan went to Home Plus before class and Milan insisted on them buying 2 cakes (it's his birthday). So they came to class with cakes and beverages (remember we are having a surprise party tomorrow too). AND our professor ALSO bought 2 cakes! However, he saved his and we will actually be using them for tomorrow's party as well. :) As it happened, Magnus and Joakim walked by the lounge, so since it was Magnus' birthday today also, they had a little celebration with us too.

We went out to dinner to the Kimbap place I went to on Sunday. I ordered the ddeok mandu guk, but it never came! Emily and I were also splitting a kimbap, so I ate most of that. We were joined by a reporter for the Korean Quarterly, a newspaper based in MN and the reporter's friend who is also a Korean adoptee. The reporter has 3 children; 2 are adopted from Korea, but the one who is biological to them will be coming to Inje in the fall. When we returned from dinner, we ran into Magnus and Joakim. They were going out to eat so Tim, Ji and I joined them. (Tim's dinner order was also messed up and he didn't get much dinner either.) We went to a BBQ place and had samgypsal.

Extra: this evening Emily stopped by my room to help me organize the weekend a little bit. After she left she suddenly called me and said her roommate was having a birthday party for her in the lounge! Jenny and I went downstairs and we had a Baskin Robbin's ice cream cake with a bunch of other people! This is the second night in a row we've had midnight cake eating parties. Thank goodness no one has a birthday on the 1st! Ha, ha.