안산공업고등학교 (Ansan Technical High School) is my school, which is on the northeastern edge of the city. It has about 1,800 students attending. Because it is a technical school it has some interesting classes like Machines and Electricity besides all the normal classes. I probably won't be taking any of those, but it'll be cool to going to school with people that are. I checked out the website I was given for the school, but of course it was all in Korean, so I had a heyday trying to make sense of the crap Google Translate was giving me. In the end I didn't learn much besides what classes they offer and how many students there are...... I have a long way to go XD
I also have the names of my host parents, which I'm not going to post yet. I tried to email them, but the address I was given didn't work, so I emailed the rotary club person asking about it. Hopefully I will get a reply soon and be able to contact my family.
I was also given the date of my arrival which is the 24th of August. I'm not sure how set in stone that date is, but I'm pretty sure it won't change. But because Korea is a day ahead of us I'll probably be leaving the 22nd to get there in time. Which means I'll probably be back in Dubuque by the 20th at the very least.
I have had many people ask if I am excited to go to Korea. And of course I most certainly am. I think that the reason I get asked so often is because I'm not my usual jump-up-and-down never-stop-talking-about-it excited. And so, my friends, here I shall finally provide the key to solving this predicament. "But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.” - C.S. Lewis
