I have just returned from my E3 class mini gathering. Initially there should be 7 of us but 2 couldn't make it so it was a cozy 5 ^^) I haven't seen 2 of my classmates and 류 선생님 for quite some time so it's great catching up!
Dinner at 장수 restaurant, The Esplanade. Price range was ex but food's good!
Zhenyi, Christine, Davina with 류 선생님. 선생님 looks prettier with longer hair now...
Thanks Davina for organising this get-together! Till then!
My I2 classmates had a mini gathering yesterday. We were supposed to treat 민 선생님 dinner yesterday to extend our appreciation for the past semester. Unfortunately, her car tyre tore and was unable to join us. Anyhow, we enjoyed ourselves, feasting on yummy Korean food.
Crowded 토기 Restaurant! Even though we have made a reservation, there were no seats!
반찬 to the rescue! I was so so hungry!!! By the time we ate, it was around 8 plus?
Davina and John, who was so serious-looking....
While waiting for our chopsticks to arrive, it's photo time! Yes... the 반찬 came without the utensils.
For those who wish to give this restaurant a try, it's located at 11 Mosque Street, just opposite CTC Travel Agency in Chinatown area.
It was Jean's last lesson with our Advanced I class. Next Monday, she will be heading to Seoul for a 3-month course in Kyung Hee University. That brings back wonderful memories of March 2006 (^__^)
The other day, I was speaking to a friend who was in the same immersion programme in Kyung Hee. We were full of envy for those fresh graduates who were able to take time off for studies. Somehow we did wish that the clock would turn back to the time when we had just finished our uni studies. But then again, we also did agree that we wouldn't want to exchange our working experience for that and to start slogging all over again in the working world. Humans... we are contradicting, aren't we?
For this semester, I have been missing several classes. Health hasn't been that great these few months, especially when I was on antibiotics, I get hit by flu and fever bugs easily. After this semester, I will be taking a break from Korean classes in SKS. Looking back, I have been studying non-stop for almost a year? A short break and then after to decide what I should do? Perhaps take up private lessons?
Our teacher, 전지현 선생님 (3rd from right) specially bought cakes and held a mini farewell for Jean (2nd from right) as it's her last lesson with us. Picture is taken by Jean's camera ^^
Advanced 1 Korean class has began today.
Our new teacher, 전지현 선생님 is a full-time teacher with SKS and it's her first time teaching night class.
Somehow, I didn't understand the lesson at all! She was trying to explain grammar in English and it didn't sound any right. Additionally she was writing all the answers on the board without engaging the class.
Of a sudden I miss the stress I had in I2 class...
민 선생님 보고 싶다...
As my Intermmediate 2 class is drawing to a close, my stress level has more than doubled! Our teacher really stretches our class beyond limits, giving several essays as homework with only 1-day turnaround time.
I really hope I can manage next week's final examination.
Wish me luck! Loads of it!
많은 숙제를 하느라고 스트레스를 많이 받고 피근하게 됬습니다.
시험이 바로 코앞이지만 시험에 합격하리라 생각한다.
어제밤에 10시쯤 온라인 어휘 시험을 밨습니다.
10시 30분까지 선생님에게 메일로 파일을 보냈야 했습니다.
시험 공부를 하지 않아서 좀 어려웠습니다...
난 나쁜 학생입니다!
ㅎㅎㅎ
사람은 첫인상만으로는 알 수 없다?
첫인상으로 사람을 판단하지 말라는 말이 있습니다. 사람의 인상은 변하기 때문입니다. 그러나 사람은 일박적으로 첫인상을 중요하게 생각합니다. 예를 들어 봅시다.
성격까지 똑같은 쌍둥이 형제 '명수' 와 '진수'가 자기 소개를 하고 있습니다.
"제 이름은 면수입니다. 저는 부지런하고 약속을 잘 키는 사람입니다. 하지만 성격기 급해서 실수를 하기도 합니다."
"저는 진수라고 합니다.급한 성격 때문에 실수를 많이 합니다. 하지만 부지런하고 약속을 중요하게 생각하는 사람입니다."
두 사람 중에서 누가 더 좋은 젓인상을 줄 수 있을까요? 물론 명수입니다. 먼저 알게 된 정보가 나중에 안 정보보다 중요하기 때문입니다. 처응에 좋은 인상을 준 사람은 작은 잘 못을 해도 쉽게 이해 받을 수 있습니다. 그러나 첫인상이 나쁜 사람은 그렇지 않습니다.
첫 만남이나 면접에서 따뜻한 인상을 주려고 노력합시다. 그것이 한번 만들어지 나쁜 첫인상을 지우느라고 고생하는 것보다 훨씬 쉬우니까요.
... ... ...
위에서 다음 수요일에 외우야 해요!
소형인 말하기 대회 생각했어요
이번 주말에 힘들게 보낼 거예요...
Our I2 class is finally conducted by 민연현 선생님 today. I was pleasantly surprised that our class grew larger, with 4 new faces -- 2 who downgraded from A1 class, 1 New Zealander whose wife is a Korean and lastly a student who joined us from NUS Extension. So now our class has 10 students!
연현 선생님 speaks only Korean with minimal English in class. It's been a long while since I have my classes taught in Korean. Previous 2 levels were taught mainly in English.
I'm still trying to get used to 연현 선생님's teaching style... she likes us to compose sentences in our mind without writing on paper. Personally, I feel more confident scribbling down but I do agree that this is good training ground to get us to think and speak impromptu...
I just finished 2 classes of Intermediate 2 Korean this week. In total, there are 6 of students for this level, with 2 newcomers from other schools.
Interestingly, our teacher couldn't teach us this week so we had a relief teacher 민연주 선생님 for the first 2 classes. 민연주 선생님 is the younger sister of the current Elementary 2 teacher, 민연현 . 연주 선생님 taught the Advance 2 class last semester but this semester she has taken a short break as she will be travelling a lot on business trips.
Somehow I didn't enjoy my classes at all. A classmate and I both felt that the relief teacher wasn't committed in teaching us ~ perhaps she was just relieving the class. Today at 8.30pm, she told us she's very hungry. So we suggested ending the class early. We weren't learning anything productive anyway. She was just merely going through the first page of the workbook and before that reading a passage from the textbook. But she went like.... 안 되요!
I was thinking... if you didn't have that thought of ending early, why did you tell us you are hungry? Nonetheless our class ended 10 minutes early.
Well I hope if I do have a chance to continue my studies to Advance 2, I will change my impression of this teacher. Sadly, first impression does count! 첫인상이 중요합니다!
I received a call from the Singapore Korean School this afternoon.
Apparently, there weren't enough students to start I2 class but the principal gave in to start the class for this semester anyway.
So the new I2 class will be on Wednesday and Friday instead of the usual Tuesday Thursday.
이번 학기에 스트레스를 많이 받을 거예요...
도와주세요!!
오늘 I1 마지막 한국어 수업입니다.
이코스를 끝내면서 무엇보다도 나의 친구들에게 감사합니다.
그들과 김 선생님은 함께 굉장한 10주를 보냈습니다.
우리모두 열심히했고, 우리는 모두 굉장히 친밀해졌습니다.
사랑하는 김 선생님의 도움이 없었으면 이 수업을 끝내지 못했을 거라고 생각합니다.
정말 감사합니다!
모두... 크리스 마스를 축하합니다.
다음학기 1월 8일에 또 만날겁니까?
김 선생님과 우리 반 친구들의 찍은 사진...
We learnt how to do 절 during class this evening. 절 is a formal bow of respect to one's elders on New Year's Day. There are many ways of bowing. Apparently we learnt the most difficult one of all...
절하는 방법 소개
My classmate Davina who's around 선생님's height managed to don 선생님's pretty 한복 and shoes. She represented our class for this competition and we came in 3rd! 잘 했습니다!
I received my KLPT results today and good news is... I managed to pass my KLPT! That's quite a relief as I thought I would have failed rather badly.
Anyhow I'm thankful I have passed. I guess there's more studying to be done...
This morning, my classmate told me that I could use my original registration number to check my TOPIK results. So I did... and I realised my marks actually differ from the last I checked my results which was like a week ago.
My writing marks was bad 57/100 but unbelievably I scored full marks for my listening section! （*∩_∩*） Anyway I'm not complaining as this time my total scoring was what I have targeted for.
This week is a real short week as tomorrow is Deevapali holiday and I have taken leave on Friday. ♬ ♪ YEAH ♩ ♭ ♪
푹쉬고 싶어요!
I finally got my TOPIK results. I managed to get a Level 2 grade for my Beginner TOPIK. To obtain a Level 2 grade, one must achieve over 70 points.
Initially I didn't know results were released on 1 November. I was in school on Thursday when my 선생님 asked how was my TOPIK result? Immediately after I got home, the first thing was to search for my registration slip. Without this slip, I wouldn't be able to check my results online!
After a hectic search, I managed to find it. However, my registration number did not work!!!! I keyed in umpteen times but it just said no information given.... Thank god my Korean friend was online and she agreed to help me call TOPIK the next morning to check.
인선씨 아주 큰 도움이 되었습니다! 정말 고마워요!
My first KLPT attempt was horrendous! I was practically struggling through the whole paper and I didn't have time to finish the questions. The back few questions I had to tikam because they were so difficult and I just didn't understand the sentences. To me, they were merely characters...
Anyway I'm quite glad it's over. After the exam, I realised I still have a very long way to go for the language. More vocabulary and grammar studying!
10월11일에 한국어 Intermmediate I 수업이 또 시작했어요. 수업에서 6명 학생이 있어요. 우리 반 친구는 Elementary 3 수업에서 알고 지냈어요. 우리는 오랜만에 못보아서 만나니 반가웠어요. Intermmediate I 선생님은 김보연입니다. 선생님은 정말 미인이다.
오늘 E3 시험 결과를 받았어요. 정말 놀랐어요!
시험에 좋은 결과가 있어서 내가 매우 기뻤어요.
류 선생님 감사합니다! ~ 선생님의 수업이 좋았고 선생님의 가르침은 않은 도움이 되었어요.
I had my E3 level test this evening but I didn't prepare for it! I was so so tired after TOPIK exam has ended and all I wanted was a good rest.
Sigh I didn't think I will do well... There were already 2 errors as I wrote the words: 국제 전화 and 콧물 wrongly. Not to mention oral test... double sigh!
Today also marked my last E3 class. Yeah! We will be having a 3-week holiday before embarking the next level. I will still be continuing lessons at SKS since my current job allows it.
