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I changed the template because its time for new beginnings.

Just kidding, I got bored of the backround. We've had it since the beginning.

Also new beginnings is redundant. All beginnings are new. (you're welcome, Angela)

I'm watching You're Beautiful again, and for those of you who don't know what this is, (or don't remember my Shinwoo blogs (search the blog for Shinwoo and you can see my beatimus 'seventeen to one complete victory' poem)), Its a show which the concept of would be hard to explain in just words, so I'll have my gifs help again.

So you start the show and the REAL story starts about an episode in and you're like,

And then you realize, She's not going to get with the guy you want her to get together with, and you're like,

 And then things start to work out and you're like,

 And then they stop working out and you're like,

And then, even though things don't really work out, in the end you're like,

And by that I mean, "You successfully made me feel a very large range of emotions. well done."

Anyway, in other news, we went to a Japanese restaurant last night, and it was pretty totally delicious.

But maybe the best part was that the 20-some year old white people sitting next to me were debating about the differences and similarities between Avatar: The Last Airbender, and The Legend of Kora, which is the new show.

No I'm joking, the best part was the food because it was 진짜 맛있다.
Also watching those crazy people cook some crazy vegetables.

I'm pretty sure that yesterdays weather is my favorite kind of weather beside totally sunny weather. I know, crazy dark spring thunderstorms and sunny weather are totally different, but there's something about spring thunderstorms that are so cozy and wonderful. I just wanted to stay inside all day and do cool cozy stuff.

and then it stopped raining and we went shopping and it was cool and humid and it smelled like greeness.

On Saturday we did the market and it was a really really pretty day. We sold like a ton of plants. maybe 너무. People continue to make it sounds like 22 dollars for a basket that is beyond beautimus it way too expensive. I have a theory that more people would buy them if they were 25 dollars because everyone has 20 dollar bills from the ATM and they don't like to break a 20 for 2 dollars. I dunno. I hate breaking 20's.

Amy I can't wait until you get home. I will pass the time by learning both Ring Ding Dong and Replay, (did I mention I love SHINee?), and then we can dance them together.

We can also sing a song together. Something beautiful and english, maybe, but we should also learn Cotton Candy (maybe we need a kazoo or a ukelele.) and My Heaven.

-Michelle

Why I want to go to Korea

Since the blog has been a lot of this

 and this,

lately, and I'm thinking that people

(wait wait, wait wait. Amy. Taemin is Wearing a GD&TOP shirt in that gif. That or....)

May have forgotten or never known why I really want to be an exchange student in Korea.

Its not (mostly) because I like this guy,

 Or this show.

Yes, yes, the reason I wanted to learn Korean in the beginning was so I could watch Lee Min Ho without subtitles (and Amy, I still hate subtitles), but that's evolved, somewhat. I don't want to go to Korea just because of the pop culture. The pop culture of a country says little about the country itself, and I am very aware of that.

When I started to learn about the culture itself I was really fascinated because I've never learned much about a culture that wasn't very westernized, or was so old. I mean I know that there are a lot of old countries, its just Korea was the first one I really learned about.

I like they're manners and their traditional clothing and houses, and that has a lot to do with why I want to go, so I'll tell about all that stuff:

One of the first things that became apparent to me was that they're very respectful of older people. You add a respectful ending to words if you're speaking to someone older than you or a stranger.

That's not really a thing in America, and I think its cool that they are respectful to older people because the know that f you're older you're wiser and more mature, whereas in America we have like a taboo on aging, which really sucks, cause its not like you can stop it or anything.

When you walk into a house, you take off your shoes.

Why don't we do that here? Its like when we buy food instead of making it even though its less-healthy AND more expensive. We'd rather vacuum than take our shoes off, even though its less work and the house gets less dirty, and the carpet doesn't get stained, and you're more comfortable, and it makes the house seem like more of a sacred place.

Korean traditional houses are called Hanok.

And something like this on the inside.

The deal is its like a long corridor that is almost a full square, and is attached at one side by a big wooden door. Its something like its own little walled city.

The corridor, since it creates a full square-like shape, makes a nice quart yard in the middle. where trees grow and they have whatever in there. Maybe some porches and a garden or something.

Then, inside of the corridor, are all of the rooms. They're mostly all attached, but are also accessible from the quart yard.

Traditionally, Koreans would sleep on the floor on little mats because the house was heated from a furnace which expelled smoke and heat via a crawlspace, so obviously the floor was warmer than a bed and mattress would have been. This may also be the reason they take their shoes off when entering a house.

Korean traditional dress is about the cutest thing I've ever seen,

It makes me kind of sad that America doesn't have anything like this that they can take pride in. And even if we do have anything like that, its really weird to wear it. No one wears pilgrim outfits ever. And if they do...
Some people wear civil war clothes, and if they do...

"I don't always wear Civil War clothes, but when I do...I'm in a re-enactment and I'm playing a confederate and its in a re-enactment of one of the battles that the confederates win so I get to shoot some yankees."

I haven't tried much of Korean food and I don't know if I would like it, but it looks DELICIOUS.

They eat with lots of sidedishes, so there's lots of variety. Usually you have your bowl of rice and then you put whatever you want on it.

Another thing that I think is really cool about Korea is when you become good friends with someone, if they're younger than you, they can call you Unnie if your both girls, Hyung if you're both boys, Noona if they're a boy and you're a girl, or Oppa, if you're a boy and shes a girl. The essentially mean older brother and older sister. Like I would call Amy Unnie. I like this because its respectful and yet really shows how close you are. I really like nicknames and stuff, so I think its cool that in their culture you call someone something other than their name.

And that's why I want to go to Korea.

Also because, 

Yea fangurl.

Also Amy I logged into your Youtube and liked the 12 in 1 EXO teaser video.

You're welcome.

-Michelle