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"urbane * \er-BAYN\ * adjective
: notably polite or polished in manner

Example sentence:
Korea is the epitome of an urbane population. their expectations are for the people to be meticulously groomed, faultlessly polite, always poised and gracious in every situation. "

^a revised example from the websters dictionary

i have a whole new appeal for the english language now. it seems like such a better alternative to learning korean. but the korean is still coming along.... slow... no word yet from the german teacher. that would really help.

I think my english classes are getting better. We're working on sentences, and rose taught me a few of the simple basics of the english language and sentence structure, all of which i skillfully avoided learning during my elementary and middleschool years. (can i get a 'horray!' for mt view rejects?) yeah.

today was saturday, (oh glorious saturday) and we only had half a day of school. It was fun and laid back. kim gabin took us to an old fashioned style farm house. it had all the antique farming equipment. the explinations for these rice farming utensils wasn't really exciting. we have farms in maine too, with just as much farming equipment, and it's just as unappealing. but after the tour we sat with the owner and ate grapes and drank coffee. we stayed for a few hours. it was a good time, and they took some pictures which i'll get sometime, and post! :)

on Thursday we went to a diferent elementary school. I like this one better, and the children aren't as scary. It had a seperate kindergarten, and we can go there if we want. the kids are sooo adorable!! i miss collin sisi and darrell so much! we didn't attend any classes, instead we went to a play with the kids. we took the bus with the kindergarteners, and they kind of chose which exchange students they wanted to sit with. my 2 were sooo cute! 2 girls. julian was bombarded by like 5 boys, daniela was so jealous! one looked just like a cabbage patch doll, omg! the play was maybe an hour. it was entertaining. i'll add the pics of us with "our kids" :)

friday we went to the elementary school we had gone to on tuesday. i'll call that elem. 1. they had a sports day were were "invited" to attend. we didn't participate in much of the events, just the stretching. my host mom went for a little bit, and we got to talk to some of the kids, which was amusing because they don't speak english, maybe a few words, and we only speak a few words of korean. but we had fun! this school has banasters that you can slide down. and we did! julian has the pictures for it. me and dany were going to go to the computer room, but the door was locked. (that never stops anyone at dong-gang,) so we slid the window open and jumped in. all was fine till i went through the window, then this alarm thing went off! ahh! we ran out, and acted all innocent, and i guess someone turned it off, but we didn't get in any trouble. it was a pretty fun day over all i think, but it was sooo long. i got home and went right to sleep at 8 o' clock!

thursday me and julian went for a jog around seocheon (+ sprinted down the 13 flights of stairs so fast my head was spinning at the bottom....) then the sports day on friday, and today me and rose went swimming with yea-lim and her family. all this exercise i think i can handle.

yea-lim's family is really great. it would have been a whole different experience if i had been living with them. we ate pizza, and after we went swimming we went out to eat mcdonalds food. i'v gained 10 pounds since i'v been here, and i'll never be able to lose it at this rate.

swimming was fun, i had to waer a cute lil swimming cap like pro swimmers do, i felt sooo hot. yep. but everyone had to so we all all looked equally stupid. :) swimmng was fun, i kicked so much butt in the race between me rose yea-min and ye-il :P

host dad wants to teach me a korean game, its like checkers or chess, or something like that...so i'm gonna go absorb the korean culture. :)

-lori-