i went on a short trip yesterday with soojin, joyce, hyun-sook, hae-ri, and seung-hoon to the bookstore to pick up (at long last) some books in korean to read... it was a painful, nauseating ride all the way up to kyo-dae (교대), and i nearly threw up getting off the bus anyway, here are some pics (again, shot with my pda, but photoshopped for your viewing pleasure)...
soojin, a pretty swell dude, who'll be a senior next year in MIT.
joyce, also another MITean, but also a poor-korean-speaker gyopo like me (actually she's a lot better than i am )
one of many wings at kangnam's kyobo bookstore
so what did i end up buying? a translation of steinback's "of mice and men" from a publisher that writes english on the left side of the page and korean on the right side... perhaps this is a better way to get my reading comprehension speed up (for both korean AND english ^^).
soojin also ended up buying me a copy of an old manga, 짱구, since the concensus among the interns is that i look/act like him ^^ 닮았지?
흔들흔들 ^^
anyway, not much else going here... i imagine i'll be reading jjang-gu all day instead of pretending to do work haha
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