Stephen CP #6

John came over to my apartment with some Burger King this past Sunday afternoon.  It made for a good cultural lesson because he said that in Korea when your friend is eating food it isn't rude to just grab some of his food.  I utilized this lesson well and gobbled some of his french fries. :)

I was still hungry so I grabbed some kimchi and shared it with John, but he said that it was really bad compared to what they have in Korea.  Apparently kimchi flavor depends a lot on how long it's fermented.  John said his favorite was tomtom? kimchi I think.  That kind requires almost 3 whole months of fermentation.  The nice thing about kimchi is that it pretty much lasts forever in the fridge. Deliciousness!

After the kimchi episode, we went downstairs and watched the Cavaliers and Magic basketball game.  It was a really close game so it kept all of us on the edge of our seats.  I wanted to go play some basketball at the new courts with John because it was beautiful outside, but he forgot his FSU ID so we couldn't go there or go to the gym.  We were going to go play frisbee instead, which John had never heard of before, but instead I helped him figure out how to apply CUNY (City University of New York).  Sadly the deadline has already passed to apply for the fall, so I'm not sure what he's going to do next year.

Then John showed me some really awesome K-pop music videos.  2pm, BDSK?, and Girl's Generation have some pretty epic music videos.  I think music videos are even more popular in Korea than here in the US.  They have to spend a lot of money on the videos because of all the computer animation and special effects.

After I did the favor of looking up info for him on CUNY he showed me the Hangeul alphabet and taught me the basic sounds of Korean.  I noticed right away that there's no "ph" sound.  The alphabet seems so much more simple than Chinese so I'm pretty excited about that.  I better know some Korean before I arrive over there in July.

Well this ends my last blog entry with my CP! I will definitely continue to meet John despite this assignment being over.  One last recorded tutoring session to go until I'm done with the coursework! :)