Writing after trip to my home country, Korea

Hello people!

First of all, I want to say sorry for such a late next entry.

I had a visa problem, so I had to go back to Korea.

It took 13 hours plane ride to move between Korea and U.S.A.



'13 hours of Plane ride'



During the trip, I was so busy that I could not find any spare time to do other stuffs. I went back and forth between Seoul and Busan, which are two cities that are located most far from each other in South Korea, in order to meet my relatives one in near Seoul and the others in near Busan, renew my passport, have interview with U.S. ambassador to get a Visa, and small business that I had to do in Korea.



Spent over 30 hours in the bus during the trip



Like I said above, I visited many places for 20 days of stay in Korea. Although the trip was hard, it was certainly worth it.  



'Cho-eup Middle School' - the middle building



This is my middle school; I went there about 4 years ago. This is the picture that I took during the trip. I visited there in 4 years, and it sure changed a lot. While touring my old school, I thought about my friends and the girl that I used to like (Unfortunately, I never had gut to ask her out …). I couldn’t meet any of my friends; I miss them.




 

Map of subways in Busan; subway reaches every corner of Korea



During the trip, since I don’t have my personal automobile, I had to look at this map for quite often. Because the public transportation system in Korea is very good, one can travel every corner of Korea without a personal car. (Of course, it is slightly more uncomfortable than a personal car, but you can ‘Go green’ and ‘save some green’)

Usual summer day in Korea: it’s ALWAYS raining. I know most of the Californian or those people who live in a place which has desert-like weather would think of rain as moody or cool, but if there is too much rain in the summer, it is the worst. You have to turn on fan or air conditioner not because it’s hot, but because it’s very humid; moreover, you can’t not open the window because of mosquitoes.

 

Just before I leave Korea at 'In-cheon international airport'



Bye Korea, my home country! See you in years!

Visiting Korea in 4 years was a really meaningful experience for me.

Especially, Talking with my father and relatives provided me chances to find out more about myself.

When I was about 2^nd grade in elementary school in Korea, I learned how one’s heritage and ego are important in one’s life. I never believed and understood those things at that time. However, after this visit, I have better understanding of where I came from and who I really am, so I could draw more clear picture of my future.

This year I enter the college; long 'life race' starts now



As an international student, one of the most frequent questions that I get is ‘Do you like Korea better or U.S. better?’ My answer is this: ‘Korea is my home and U.S. is my school to me.’

No doubt, spending all my high school years in U.S., I more learned numerous things that helped me to develop more intellectually in U.S. than I did in Korea. However, after long race, where I can take a break is my home, not my school.

As I was meeting with my relatives, I received many helps both emotionally and financially. After 4 years, my home was still in the place.

With nice GPS that guides me to my future and support from my home, I think I am ready to go for a long race!

The Movie My Fair Lady Review

My Fair Lady, Directed by George Cukor, is based on the play written in 1912 play
'Pygmailon' by George Bernard Shawin

 

Summary of the movie

This movie is about the common flower-selling girl who tries to be an upper-class citizen; Eliza, the flower-selling girl, asks the help to the phonetic professor, Higgins, to fix how she behaves and speaks. Very much interested in whether he can change her life or not, Higgins and his accompany, Pickering, teach Eliza how upper-class citizens behave and speak. And the story begins from there.

 

Eliza is full of hope that someday she will have warm-clothes and good foods.



Even though, right now, old wagon and fake vegetable trophy are the only things she has, she hopes that she will have warm house and hot chocolate.

 

Higgins is a very inquisitive and passionate person, yet, sometimes, he could be a very selfish man because he is so focused on what he does.





Eliza practices all day to become a upper-class lady.



Eliza cursing Higgins for torturing her with too much work.

‘H’ is too hard to say for her.

Eliza alos practices all night to become a upper-class lady.



           After long try of saying the phrase, ‘The rain in the Spain stays mainly in the plain’, Eliza finally succeeds saying properly.



They're happy that finally Eliza did it.

 

Full of happiness due to her success,

Eliza can’t sleep that she can someday dance like an upper-class citizen.

“I could’ve danced all night; I could’ve danced all night and still have begged for more.”

- from the moive

 

     And, Eliza finalizes her success of completely changing her behaviors by going to the Royal party and no one at the party finds out that she is just a flower-selling girl.

Dance between common flower-selling girl and prince.

     However, after the success, she realizes that she now belongs to nowhere. She doesn’t truly belong to the upper-class and can’t even belong to the class where she used to belong, anymore, for she had changed a lot since she decided to change her behaviors. However, Higgins is very oblivious about her.

Mad at Higgins’ oblivious, Eliza leaves Higgins.

     Initially Higgins thought that it would not matter whether Eliza goes out or not, but soon realizes that he has grown a custom of her face.

Last scene
After knowing that Higgins truly values their friendship, Eliza comes back to the Higgins’ House.

     Music with quite simple, poetic, and humorous lyrics is quite noticeable in the movie. Adorable story between Eliza and Freddie also makes this movie worth watching. However, to me, these are not the reason that makes this movie truly worth watching.

Everyone has a dream. One may not realize that one has dream or not, but as long as one is alive, one has a dream. And, this movie let one know that hope and passion is very important to achieve one’s dream.

     I have a dream, too, since I am alive. Dream that someday with my knowledge I save many people and share meaningful things: thoughts, love, and passion. To tell the truth, keeping the dream is as much challenging as achieving it. Thus, this movie had profound effect on me.  Full of hope and passion, this movie, every time I see, keeps me awake so I cannot almost sleep at night. It wakes me up and says ‘You can do it too! You can achieve your dream too. Just have a heart that is beating furiously, because it will guide you.’ Then I spend the whole night, dreaming about the dream.

Hello!

Hello!

My name is Taewoo Han and this is my first post ever.
I created this blog so that I can introduce myself and share my thoughts and experience with other people.
Mainly, I will post about anythng that intrests me: computer game, TV shows, physics, guitar, books, and etc. So... yeah, thanks for reading and hope you guys enjoy this blog.