EPTI guess first I will start with the Kpop stuff I have done since then. Firstly I have been to a significant more amount of events then I had the first half of the year. Since I went to yesterday's I have seen pretty much all the girl groups I wanted to see. My top three would be Apink, Girl's Day and Kara and I have finally seen them all. Still haven't seen my favorite boy group Nu'Est but I doubt I will which kind of sucks but I did get to see pretty much everyone else I wanted to see. So yeah since the summer I have successfully gone to Music Core and Inkigayo and then finally the SBS Gayo show. All of them were amazing but obviously best was the Gayo which was just absolutely amazing. I got tickets from my exchange student organization who gave them to my family. We had pretty good seats pretty much as center as you could get and the area right beside us was where the MCs stood so I got to see suzy and IU and even got to wave and say hi to suzy after she finished one of the MC session.
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4That is where I had my seats it is on my shitty phone camera so it kind of zooms out at bit. But I think really we had truly amazing seats was so happy. Also during the Super Junior one of my friends from class was apart of the backup dancers and you could clearly see him a bunch on the TV he is maybe the best dancer in our school. Besides the shows I went to a Girl's Day fan signing and met Yura, Hyeri, Minah and Sojin. They were all really surprised to see a foreign fan. Hyeri was the only one who spoke English to me the others Korea. Hyeri's English was really cute!
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So next I will just talk about stuff I happen to remember right now. So first there was chuseok which is one of Korea's biggest holidays. It is like thanksgiving I guess, the whole family gathers together and eats a ton of food. Was pretty nice meeting my host family's cousins and relatives they were all super nice to me. The food was really amazing and so much food was eaten. Another thing is I went on a really fun trip to the country side to to like traditional village things. We did archery and found our own food in the forest I was really interesting and probably one of my favorite trips organized by my organization that sent me here. Just another thing I remembered is Christmas happened recently and so I was really missing all of my friends in family but in Korea Christmas is like a couple holiday so it kind of sucks. I did end up meeting a girl on Christmas eve but still alone on Christmas TT. I ended up just meeting up with my other single friends and going to PC Bang and Norae Bang. Sorry there is a bunch of stuff I am missing like I don't know why I can only remember this stuff maybe because I have a lot going on in my head now and am really sad about leaving soon. I will go through my pictures and try and remember everything later on or something.
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it is my host father and his brothers paying respect to their father.
Finally the last two things I want to talk about in my blog are my last days of school and how I think have changed since I came to Korea(appearance,habits and mentally).
So first about school. I really started to get along and become really good friends with much more of my classmates towards the end of the year I think it is because my Korean has improved a lot I think(i am still ridiculously bad speaker but listening is pretty good I think). But these last months I couldn't wait to go to school everyday even though I had to get up at 6:30 and take the bus in the freezing cold because my school uniform pants are absolutely a piece of shit. I even started studying a lot more besides learning more Korean I started to lessons with the history teacher to learn Korean history and it was really interesting. Then my school had the year end exams which made the third graders go into super study mode really they were constantly studied very few even left to eat lunch. They all move their desk's into the hallways as it isn't heated only the classrooms are. The cold helps them stay awake so they can study more. So I had a nice week and a bit break which was kind of boring. but i ended up dying my hair then just meeting some of my friends from other schools. So now I will talk about these other friends. I would considering a couple of these guys my absolutely closest friends I made in Korea. I met them at this pc room near my house and they all basically live there/work there. For the most part they aren't the best students but most are in sports programs for school so studying isn't that important for them. I would say I see these guys nearly everyday, anytime I am bored i can just go over to meet them and I know they will be there. I dont even play games most of the time just sit behind the counter and just talk and stuff. I will really miss those guys so much when I have to go back to Canada. So finally after exams finish I am back to school for the last six days and since exams are done only a few of the super try-hard people are studying as they want to prep for third grade exams. We mainly just watched movies and talked for around 8 hours a day. Then finally on my last day of school it was time to say goodbye to the people who I had spent the last 10 months with. Even though i hadn't studied nearly as much as them I feel happy to not have gone home early which I think around 10 out of the 23 of us have done. So my classmates but me snacks,cake, a scarf and they all signed a Korean flag for me with messages. I am really thankful to them and will really miss them all. So he are some pictures of me and my classmates:
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My full class, only 7 boys TT
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some of my friends from another class
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me and more of my classmates
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2 more classmates
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me and same two girls holding Korean characters for bored zzz
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My desk partner for the last month, and one of my best friends at school
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The really amazing dancer in my class and this girl who loves taking pictures
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Our class vicepresident and again girl
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These are probably some of the kindest,nicest people I met in Korea
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3 of our class guys
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2 more classmates
By request of my class president(in black)
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said he wanted to take a gay shot for me
So that is my class I spent the year with I will really miss them and hope I can visit them if I come back to Korea.
Finally I want to talk about how I think I have changed since I came to Korea. First and probably most noticeable is my appearance. I lost around 14 kg in Korea and dropped down to 66 kg besides this I have worked out a lot and made some decent gains I think. Also I guess I got my ear's pierced and hair straightened and dyed. These are things I would never think about doing if I was in Canada but something about it here made me really want to. My habits have changed a lot as well I eat much less here then I did in Canada and also can't stand some greasy food now it just feels so disgusting and heavy when I eat it. Also probably the worst thing to happen to me upon this trip is that I picked up smoking around the summer break. I don't thin I smoke to much maybe around 6 or 7 cigarettes a day. Now for how I have changed mentally I am not so sure I feel the same just much more confident but that could just be me maturing or something. One thing I have noticed is that I have become much more adventurous and am down for pretty much anything that seems fun or interesting. The biggest change I have noticed is how much more independent I have gotten since I left Canada. I enjoy doing things alone and having time to myself much more now as I really have so little time like that here.I think that is about it. My mom and brother are coming to Korea to visit me tomorrow and then we will go to Japan together. Then they are back off to Canada and me back to Korea for a little while before it is finally my turn as well to go back to Canada.
Thanks for reading and sorry for not updating for a couple months.
Im super jealous! 
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