Showing posts with label Korean games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Korean games. Show all posts
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Classes~~
I got class in an hour and I'm in one of the moods that I just don't want to do anything.
My Korean speaking for beginners class is sooo boring because I'm surrounded by people that can't speak so we had to start from the beginning. Which let me tell you, is SUPER boring. I basically text the entire class while the teacher and students repeat the alphabet over and over like a machine.
"아 야 어 여 오 요 우유 으 이"
"가 거 고 구 그 기"
I don't know how much more of that I can handle >___<
Hopefully today we'll start working on comprehensible and useful phrases.
As for my English class, haha, my teacher is...... what's a good word?....eccentric.
I swear she looks like a skinny Asian Einstein. Her hair is all over the place and she talks like a crazy genius. She has the heeeaavvy Korean/British accent which makes listening to her speak really difficult.
it's so fun though. It's one of the classes where we discuss books and stories and we end up debating for hours on the importance of virtue and morals.
However, The Moon and Sixpence is the book we are beginning to read. I read the first chapter and I have NO freaking clue what is going on.
Why can't we just read something like Harry Potter?? Or Of Mice and Men, I like that book. I want to discuss that book. So, I need to figure that book out tonight before class starts tomorrow O.o
Alright... I got to sleep.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
I'm Terrible at Korean Games...
So, I went out with a friend the other night because he wanted to teach me how to play Korean billiards (I'm American,, I call it pool, but whatever)
Anyways.. should've taken pictures because I'm going to suck at explaining this properly.
Here goes nothing:
The table is exactly the same size as a normal pool table except there aren't any ball pockets (is that the technical term for holes...?) instead of the normal 13(?) balls there are 4. There's a white ball, a yellow ball and two red balls.
Basically the point of the game was to get rid of points by making your ball (either yellow or white) hit the two read balls without hitting your opponents ball.
I was white and my friend was yellow. He is like a master at this game. He would make his ball bounce all around the table squeak past my ball and manage to hit both red balls. It was incredible. He gave me a handicap because he started of with 12 points and I only started off with 5.
Guess who won.....??
I was doing really well (not really) until I got to my last point. I played with one point left for almost an hour while my friend was just getting rid of points left and right. In the hour it took me to get rid of 4 points he got rid of 11.
It was really haaaarrrdddd!!
but soooo much fun. Give me a few months (or years) and I'm sure I could kick his a**!!
This might not be a Korean game, but I've only ever seen it played in Korea and it seems to be a big thing here. Either way, I'm going to practice and one day become master~~ ^^
xx
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