Hello everyone.  I just wanted to let you know that I will probably not be posting to this particular blog for at least another 5 months.  But, I am posting quite often to my other "study abroad" blog.  Here's the link:

http://yeonheeyim.blogspot.com

This list is a collection of quotes that I have acquired over the years that have become deeply rooted in my foundation as a person.

1 Timothy 4:11-16
11 Command and teach these things. 12 Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. 13 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching.
14 Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic message when the body of elders laid their hands on you.  15 Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. 16 Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.

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"Rather than be discouraged, always remember that rejection and resistance are almost guaranteed when you are doing something very important and very special.  When you set out to live your dreams, lots of people (including those who love you the most) will try to hold you back."

     -Bradley T. Greive
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"Give away everything you know, and more will come back to you."      

     -Paul Arden
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"Don’t look for the next opportunity.  The one you have in hand is the opportunity."

    -Paul Arden
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"Most people are reasonable, that’s why they only do reasonably well."

    -Paul Arden
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"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."

     -Morrie Schwartz
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I never know what to say when people ask me what I'm doing over the summer.  I always forget all of the interesting things I'm doing and I end up saying I'll just be hanging around and then going home for a little bit.  To remind myself what I am doing, I think I'll compile a list.  

~ Working on improving my flamenco guitar ability.  (Namely being able to play barre chords that stem from A with my tiny little hands).

~ Arranging latin charts for the UW Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble.

~ Playing snare drum for an instructional DVD that will be distributed in Japan.

~ Get my study abroad things in order, which means a lot of paperwork.

~ Create/Work on my parents' New York Teriyaki website.

~ Listening to more of the Mandarin Chinese conversational audio series that I've been meaning to get through for the past 2 years. 

~Learning Russian (and the Cyrillic alphabet)

~ Finish up my Swedish Plural formation project to include all five noun declensions.  

~Working as a Conversational Speech Annotator for a study run by the Signal, Speech, and Language Interpretation Lab in the Electrical Engineering department of UW.

So, some of you already know this... but I've been seriously considering studying abroad in Sweden during Winter and Spring quarters of 2009.  Yet, I have been struggling in deciding which school and what program I want to enroll in.  I've been seriously considering Stockholm, Göteborg, Linköping, and Uppsala for the past few months, and have swayed back and forth alot.  But, now I am happy to let you all know that I have chosen!

I plan to take a series of courses called "Scandinavian Studies: Cultural and Social Perspectives" at Gothenburg University!!!

"The course adresses foreign students with the aim of enlarging their knowledge of Scandinavian society from historical, cultural, and social perspectives.  It gives an introduction to the development of Scandinavian society from a European point of view and a broad orientation of everyday life in Sweden from the time of the industrial revolution to the present.  With the focus on the city of Göteborg and its transformation, cultural and social changes concerning modes of belonging and social life in the shade of segregation, marginality and ethnic differentiation will be discussed.  The course also gives an orientation in several fields of the Swedish youth culture research that has received internationally attention, as well as Scandinavian contributions to the study of different aspects of popular culture."

I have looked into what is involved in this course and I am so excited!  It really seems like the perfect plan for me and will provide me some great insights for my linguistics major.  I've always wanted to travel to Europe and now I think I will have the chance to do so! 

I am so happy with the way things are going in my life right now, everything finally seems to be adding up.  Now, all I need to do is get a passport and deal with all of the paperwork involved with getting into this exchange program.  Yes, that and finding housing for fall quarter in the U-District before I leave. 

Thank you for reading!

Hello everyone!  Thank you so much for visiting my homepage!  If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for me feel free to leave them here, or e-mail me at:  yimyeon@u.washington.edu