Really Weird Video I Found from Students of Sogang... O_o

LMAO so this video is HILARIOUS hahaha!!! 

what happened was... I youtubed searched "Sogang University" 

and then this amazing "MAN" video showed up, I laughed to death. 

OH GAWDDD!!

 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

HAHAHAHHA

*rolls over*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!

yea.. you got my point.. LOL!

House Searching BEFORE Going to Seoul : Part 2 : Haksujib Hunting by Phone

So as I said on my last post, The form of living I had decided on was Haksujibs. So heres my "Super Epic" Story of Hasukjib hunting without even being in Korea. 

I had 2 options of looking for a place to stay. 

1) Based on the information packet thats on Sogang's KLEC (if you want to see it the link is at the end of my first post here : Adimissions Post ) I can contact Korea-homestay (Link : Korea-Homestay) and asked them to help me find a place to live (basically like a real estate agent for hasuks) BUT the catch with this place is... you have to pay the 150,000krw for their services (basically 150 usd) for them to continually find you places that you may like... PLUS you have to give them 100,000 krw (100 usd) Deposit for them to give to the owner, to ensure you'll even show up.

BEING : the cheap person that I am... LOLs I decided to call some places myself based on the list that Sogang has and a list of places I found on Naver.

2) So basically I went on the list that Sogang Klec has, which includes pictures and numbers etc, etc..

here it is : Hasuk Info

I called almost all of them.. Since I didn't speak korean that well..  the conversation that followed goes something like this :

Me :영어 할 수 있어요? (do you speak english?

Them : 아니, bniuehnfjcdnclkwei4ryi

Me: oh.... 

-SILENCE-

Them : CHINESUHH? CHINESUUHH? 

Me : YESS YESS!! 네!!!!

So then we had long extreme chinese conversations :D

 In my head, I was pretty much like "HELLS YEA CHINESE WOOH!!" 

But seriously, I was glad that all of the places I called spoke chinese :) 

-AHEM- moving on.

I also called the different places on naver too, 
and heres the link : Hasuk Hunting

and the people on that list Also spoke chinese :D 

so... thats about it.... I'm just going to put a couple of important emails 

and links that can help you.

If you do not speak Chinese / or Korean and you want to 
secure a place before you go to 

Korea and you are ALSO willing to pay the 150 finders fee, then

email korea- homestay : Koreahomestay@nate.com 

They do payment through Paypal , so its pretty safe. 

If you want my help or anything just to ask me or even message me 

just email me at : Kitty_chewchew@hotmail.com

OKI DOKI thats all for noww :D 

House Searching BEFORE Going to Seoul : Part 1 : Options

Ok, so this post will probably be pretty long... so please click on the video below and listen to classy classical music while you're reading this so I can pretend that Im writing a fancy blog ;) 

    Or, not if its not what your really into... *___* 

          Anyways,  since my KLEC class starts on September first I will be going to Seoul around the last week of August with my amazing daddy and my older brother. (too bad my momma couldn't come :[ ). 

           So at this point I really wanted to find a place to stay before getting there for a couple of  reasons :

1)     My daddy and brother is going and since we don't have that much time, I don't want to cut into their exploring time with my house searching, if I can help it. 

2)      I just don't feel like running all over kingdom kom (did I spell that right?) and not speaking that great of korean. 

WOOOAAHHH WAIITTT .. IM GETTING WAY AHEAD OF MY STORY.... 

           So the couple of options I had lined up were Dorm (Sogang Gonzaga hall), Hasukjibs, Home-stays Goshiwons and One Rooms.

And on to the long explanations : 

1) : Dorms : Sogang's new dorm Gonzaga hall was.. pretty impressive. Im not really a < "HEY LETS SHARE BATHROOMS AND SPREAD OUR GERMS EVERYWHERE!! YAYYY">  kind of person, but from the gonzaga hall pictures it looked pretty nice. And plus they have other options of one student per room. 

Gonzaga Hall Dorm

So you can just search around and find their pictures, and it was really nice to me mainly because they have guest suites which has couch, kitchen, washing machines ALL IN YOUR OWN ROOM!! like an apartment :D but they were SOO expensive. 

Any how despite my hardcore blabbing, I message Sogang and NO they do not have open rooms :( and so moving on to my next option. 

-Replay classical music if it has just stopped- ;) I got you. LOL. -

2) : Hasukjibs : I actually decided on this choice (My next post will be a story of my searching for hasukjibs without being in korea...one word<EPIC>) So hasukjibs are basically off campus dorms, and each hasuk has a ahjumma (older lady)  or a ahjussi (older mister), or both as a couple, cooking 2 meals a day, and theres also other student from other colleges or countries there also, (GREAT language immersion apparently). So I thought thats kind of nice. 

3) : Goshiwons : THE ROOMS ARE SOO TINY. and that was the reason why I really decided against it. =____= " A goshiwon (고시원) is a small room somewhere around three square metres (1.5 pyeong) that students will often live in for a number of months in order to focus on a test." according to Galbijim Site 

And let me tell you... they ARE tiny heres a photo of the whole room. 

OH HEYY, THATS YOUR ENTIRE ROOM!

Ok so, so... not happening...


4) : Home-Stays : basically you live with a family, and submerge in their everyday life. but since there are so many stories of home-stays gone wrong. My parents didn't really feel safe with me going to a home stay.

5) : One-Rooms: Last but not least One-rooms. Its basically a studio apartment with your bed, kitchen, living-room area all in one one. Its so nicee :( BUT heres the catch YOU (yes you, if you're going to get one) has to pay a deposit of anywhere from 5,000 usd to 10,000 usd. The more you deposit, the less monthly rent you have.... Im not that rich.. -_____- so FUDGE that. And I am not about to ask my parents because it is kind of ridiculous. And for those of you who can just go get one.. -GV KESDFJDSBCKNVJB CJK- I AM SO JEALOUS. 

So thats basically it.. DON'T forget to read my next post!! on my hasukjib phone calls across the sea!!!

Admission to Sogang University KLEC Program.

       Since I wouldn't exactly call my self a great writer.. bare with me as I write things that might be sometimes in comprehensive :(

-Ahem-

        So as the title states, I was recently admitted in to the Sogang University KLEC program!! for those of you who doesn't know, Sogang is a jesuit university in South Korea,  located in Seoul !!!l (-woo!! round of applause-)  So for the next year or so, I will be in Seoul exploring Korea and learning some hardcore Korean.

       Sogang's Korean Language Education Center(KLEC), is one of the best known programs in korea for language studies (or so google tells me.. hmmm....). They are well known for conversational speaking, compared to the other ones which are more grammar/workbook focused. Couple of the big reasons I actually decided  on Sogang instead of Yonsei or SNU was because :

      -and the list of random reasoning ensues...-

1) Out of all the programs I messaged they answered the fastest and correctly.

2) They focus on conversational speaking, which was very useful.

3) They have a buddy program,(where you can pare up with their university Korean students for languages help)

4) Their website has AN ABUNDANCE of great information.

  By now you're probably thinking.. MAN, JUST GET TO THE ADMISSION STEPS ALREADY! D:<

  Haha ;] welllll.... HERE IT COMES :

The admissions process was fairly easy, I went on their site :

Sogang KLEC official website

Clicked Application on the left hand side not too far down, got here :

Application Page

Now the next step was filling out the application, so I....

I FILLED EVERYTHING OUT. :D

[they asked me to pick a date for the placement test,

so you can pick -in person- or -by phone-]

After thats all done, I E-mail Sogang KLEC (ckss@sogang.ac.kr) a copy of my passport and

a copy of my school transcript.

added with : -a couple days of anxious waiting-

then once I was accepted, they will sent me their bank account information so that I can wire the school fees to them.

A couple days later you will get I got my admissions form etc etc...

But heres the kicker... on my admissions form,

country of nationality was put as :<일본> which is JAPAN.

BUT IM NOT JAPANESE!!! D:<<<< SOGANG SAY WHAAAATT?

     So THENN I quickly wrote them an email telling them of this TRAGEDY that has just occurred. LUCKILY, they wrote back by the time I woke up next morning... tell me how sorry they are and that they are sending another one right away... :)

let me ONCE AGAIN mention how much I love their fast responding. ~melts~

      So thats about all, let me leave you with a link from Sogang that explains this whole process, a lot shorter and simpler then I did... and the reason I put this link at the end? So you can read through this LONGGG LONGG experience of mine :D and then find out.. BAM! there was a shorter version ALL ALONG... haha sorry .. <3

  But honestly... if I just post a link... it really wouldn't be much of a blog now would it? ;)

So just go here :

   

Information PDF

and click Application Process (in English) and a .pdf file will pop up. :) goodluck!~

and keep reading!! I promise better things!~