I am trying to remember what has happened in the last 12 days. I fixed my camera, so soon there will be pictures.

I am currently in Niigata, Japan, the place where I completed my junior of high school, and I am having a great time meeting up with old friends and host families. It is currently a Thanksgiving-esque holiday in Korea, and I will be back in school come October 1st.

Life has been good. I am continuing to learn Korean, and I have made quite a few Korean friends with whom I can practice my newly acquired language skills. As for truly interesting happenings, there was one thing in the past 12 days. I got cast in a documentary that will appear on Korean television. I went to an international party a couple of weeks ago, and there was a documentary director in the midst of it. The reason that she was there was that she was looking for a truly happy foreigner that was living in Korea. I told her a little bit about myself, and she apparently got a happy vibe from me, because she decided to make me the focus of her documentary. It will be a documentary that will be aire by KBS, Korea's major broadcasting company. Shooting is likely to start as soon as I get back from Japan, and I am quite excited. It has always been a dream of mine to be on TV, especially in Asia. Later on in life, I would actually really like to live in Japan, or maybe even South Korea, and make a living off of appearing on variety shows; this may be my start, or kikkake, as they would say in Japanese, don't know what it is in Korean yet though.....haha.

Besides that everything has been going quite well. I am developing a good routine that allows me to complete all my Korean studying and also experience everything around, maybe routine isn't the best word to describe since it is actually a pretty spontaneous approach.

I watched a total of 25 films at the film festival and met a bunch of up and coming Korean directors. It would be great to volunteer some time later on once my Korean gets better to get some experience towards my film-making career, especially since, on the international level, Korea, along with Iran, is one of the countries currently making the most intriguing films.

My class dynamic at school is great. I take Korean with quite the assortment of interestin people; there is the Israeli ambassasdor to Korea's wife, who is a very nice lady, and Japanese, Mongolian, Chinese and Indonesian people who range from early twenties to the middle age. As usual, I am the baby, at 19, which I turned on the 20th of this month. Every thinks I am at least 26 when they meet me. I even got 34 once, not sure if that's good or bad, haha.

I really like my teachers; during the 4 hours of daily Korean, I have 3 different teachers. In the morning from 9 to 10 am, we do writing, and then after a short break, from around 10 to 11 we have listening, and then the rest of the day until 1 is speaking. It is a super interactive approach, so I love it, and it is also super reminiscent of Yale's own Angela Lee-Smith's teaching style, who once also taught at Sogang for some time .

Well, I will be here in Japan for another week or so, so I will write again when I return to Korea. Mata Ne.