Korea is a small country, at least compared to America. I have to keep reminding myself of that.
for example, when a famous korean music group came to campus, i was thinking, "wow, they came so far just to play at a university". And then i realized, well they can't have had to travel more than like a hundred, hundred fifty miles tops to get here. And since they're really only famous in Korea, it's not like they don't have time because they're touring fifty cities or something. all they had to do was hop on a train/helicopter for thirty minutes to two hours, and that's it.
And today we went on a "cultural field trip". I got on the bus, and i was wondering how long the ride was going to be.
But then i realized it doesn't matter to ask, because the country is so small that we couldn't be driving for thatt long until we hit the coast. And even if did drive that long in the end i wouldn't care, because we would be at the beach.
but like in america, who knows? we could drive for days and still be in the same country. especially texas being so big, to drive to another city in texas could take hours, so it is always good to know about how long your drive will be. but here, it's usually never more than an hour to get anywhere.
it's kind of cool, because everything is so accessible. but at the same time, it's so small therefore so not diverse and that's not cool.
it's just a funny feeling to live in a country smaller than your state.
lol, kook was staying at my house a few days ago. He started going off on this rant about how america is a fat nation and how in korea he was walking all the time, but now he'd rather drive to the post office down the street then walk to it.
ReplyDeletei love Asia. you have no idea how manyyy kinds of taiwanese delicious food they make up here. (a bit more than korea even)(not including all the other countries' foods)nightmarkets too. and yet we get to excersite a lot. i still haven't tasted all the food for the multiple times i've visited here during my life. i wish you came.
ReplyDeletei like little areas some times. those are usually the rich and developed areas haha. and friends can visit more easily. ugh
its funny cause you know how one day it sounds like we're supposed to have one nation, well i wonder if that would still make us have like, national pride and stuff even if there was only one nation. i feel like comparing america to other countries makes me love it alot somehow. like when i think america i think huge, rolling hills and mountains and rivers and just so much variety of landscape and people. but korea i dont. and it makes me love america even though i'm sure korea is nice haha.
ReplyDeleteit also makes me love texas. yeehaw.