Hohoho!
Or not so much. I can't belive it's nearly December! It's been the craziest thing, November has seemed to absolutely dissappear at an alarming rate! But, I'm kindof happy to be issueing in the beginning of the christmas season. I think it'll be reallhy interesting to see how Korea does Christmas. Maybe big, maybe small , maybe not at all... we shall see. There have been a couple exciting things happen recently. the most exciting being that I finally managed to find an internet provider -with the help of my co-teachers- that will install internet service in my appartment!!!!!!! Yee Haw! So this is my first official blog entry from my very own appartment. It feels great! I feel soo much more on top of things and in control of information! yar! I think i'll really just end up watching a lot more Youtube and internet TV as an outcome, but at least it will facilitate communication between me and the rest of the world a little bit more, and hey for $20 a month, it's well worth it. I decided to change my furniture around to accommodate the only cable outlet in the appartment. So I changed all my funiture and I think it makes the appartment a lot more functional. I've divided it into seperate areas with my bookcases and the effect is really nice both visually and psychologically. It makes my room area feel more private.
I was so thrilled but slightly pissed when the internet guys showed up 2 hours early!! Come on! I told them to come back on time so that i could get my appartment ready and get dressed at least! Hahaha, they did too. I had to keep calling my co-teacher Seung Eun and have her talk to the installation guy to make him understand where I wanted the internet and no I do not have a TV for them to install cable. But we got there in the end. Thank goodness! I promptly spent the rest of the day online catching up on Youtube videos of this season of So You Think You Can Dance Canada!
Deanna thought that I should have started a blog with my detailed analysis of the competition, but unfortunately CTV does not allow the show to be broadcast outside of Canada and I can only glean soooo much from Youtube vids, but here is my analysis after hammering through as many vids of the competition as I could find.
T.J. won the competition. And I think she was deserving of it because she addapted the best to all theifferent styles of dance although i find that she has some very distrating mannerisms. Jame-Rae was great. She was pretty hot and a great dancer but I think my favorite dancers of the competition were Vincent and Kim. I'm sad that neither of them won, but it is after all a popularity competition because they're eliminated due to votes and not pure tallent or performances. I think Kim was a classy classy chick and dancer and i think she has the looks and the body that could take her far in the industry. (Like Karington from the American show who went on to become a big film star in Fame etc...) Vincent was just gorgeous and I think this will get him a lot of exposure and potential jobs in the ballroom world because you coulod almost see him outdancing and out performing the choreographers in rehersals. Not to mention he's French, charming and hot. Altogether the only things that got me down was that I thought the choreography leaned too far towards the mainstream music video culture and not enough towards pure artistic creation. Although I have to remember that it is a TV show made for a mass audience that is made up of sceaming teen aged girld for the most part. I still like the contemporary numbers the best though, especially when they get really arty and character driven. My favorite performances were Amy and Vincents' piece about psychological abuse and the top 3 girls group routine done to classical music. Both of these pieces gave me chills and I had to watch them a coupple of times. Mia Micheals is a genius and I really enjoy her commentary because she is always straight forward and real. It reminds you that in the real world of the arts criticism is harsh and standards are high and it's certainly not just a popularity contest. The only thing I would criticise is the lack of multicultural numbers (considering it is sytycd canada) and also that there was just sooooo much sex and girations of the hips and so much sex sex sex. I don't think great dancing has to be about sex. I think some of the strongest numbers had nothing to do with boy meets girl and they want to get it off. But that's just my opinion. Anyway, I will definitely be following this show as long as it stays on the air and it makes me want to go out and danse. So there you go Deanna and Manu. That one was for you. LOL!
So last week was the final day of the royal court culture class at the national palace museum. It was faily coll as not only did we get to try on royal garb but we also got an amazingly cool blue velvet ecased certificate to prove that we had sucsessfully attended and passed the course... if it was a courseÉ I think it just certifies that we were there and participated, but it`s still cool because it`s soft and velvet and royal blue! It's freeking fancier than my university deploma!!! oh god Korea is so funny.
So I've finally come to peace with the fact that I've been delt a slightly shitty hand here in terms of my school and my living arrangements and I'm determined to look on the bringht side of life and do the best that i can with what I have. So I have to accept that it will just take me much longer to hget asywhere and that I won't be able to participate in a lot of events because i just can't go and stay for an hour when it takes me over an hour to get there and longer to get back. And I have come to terms with the fact that i am not a party person and I never have been so why the Hell would I start now? I don't enjoy being out all night, getting oissed and being tired and humg over all the next day. Never have, probably never will, so might as well not feel guilty about not getting out there and making happy with all the 22 year olds who have not juust finished a grueling masters. I have had a lot of trouble being angry with myself for not having the energy I did when I was 22. If I think back, my 22nd birthday was spent PARTYING at an underground club in Paris!!!! And yes we did stay out all night and yes I has a lot more energy. And no I do not regret it one bit, but I was at a completely different point in my life then and a lot has changed in the last 3 years. So now I think I need to spend more time finding situations I enjoy and less time feeling guilty about not getting out more in situations that I don't really care to be in anyway. When I think about it, I have done a lot in 3 months, more that I'd expected to actually. It's just that everyone else here is soooooo full of beans that it makes me feel as though I'm sitting still in comparison. And there shall we say is the problem; that of comparison. Just stop.
On the bright and sunny and optimistic side of things I got a new haircut which I really love! It would look best if i bought a staightener and straightened my hair every morning, but lests not kid ourselves on this one, I can't even be bothered to brush my hair most mornings never the less coif it!!!! Next i went and saw the most hilarious, scarry, adorable Chritmas movie tonight. Classic! A Chritmas Carol! The new animated one by Disney. It was actually really good and I laughed out loud a LOT! It was really scarry for a kids movie although it's not the lightest topic i suppose. And finally my artowrk it beginning to take shape, litterally, the boxes are together and they look really cool, not i just have to work on the installation part of it.
Will keep posted. For now, that's all folks!
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