And so, another day of cloudy sunny weather greets me in the morning as I sit in front of my journal contemplating which course of action to take for the sake of a better experience.
Yesterday, in front of the Technique of Traditional Painting class, I hesitated. Thoughts of "Should I take this class?" "Where is the teacher?" "This is a studio room, not a classroom..." "Maybe I shouldn't take this class..." "Why shouldn't I take this class?" "10 credits seem so little...." "But it's four studio classes already, five could kill you!" "But some classes are only once a week...and I have no idea what the homework load is going to be like.." "But I have to decide on a schedule by Monday.." ran around in my head for the twenty minutes I stood and walked outside of D201.
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The above is what I had started to write at the end of Thursday last week. It's Sunday now, and I wasn't able to get the motivation to finish writing that post. But now I realize there was nothing to go on until more things happened.
As I said before, I am really considering dropping the Korean class. This past weekend, I spent a few days hanging out with Madison, the other American student from Utah, going places eating lunch and dinner, and we discussed about what our schedules might end up like, and what the work load should be like. We still have no idea what to expect from a schedule of four or five studio classes with only around 12 credits. How busy do I want to be this semester painting? How much free time do I want to explore Seoul, to improve my Korean, and to hone in on my other interests?
It's really difficult to gauge studying at Hongik compared to American colleges. Some of my classes I only have once a week, some are twice a week, and they range from two to six hours a week, but they're all studio classes, so I don't know if we'll be spending the same amount of time to do homework a week...it's all very confusing. And I have to finalize all this by tomorrow. >.<
I've slowly accumulated more art supplies for these next few weeks. I start painting in the Basic Painting class this week, and tomorrow I'll have the Painting Studio class for the frist time. I hope I can get some studio space. Space is so limited here.
This week has felt like several. Is it because I have so much free time?
1 comment:
If 5 studio classes are going to be a lot. You should be alright with 10 credits. You are in Korea, you should be able to enjoy your time there, don't feel guilty or obligated to take 12 credits.
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