Well, I wrote this article like one month ago, but than January TOPIK, exams and coronavirus happened, so I didn't finish it. You have my sincere apologies. I will try to write more (maybe shorter stories), so all of you know what's happenning in my life 😁
My first Christmas outside of the Czech Republic and without my family. It was a challenge. But fortunately I have many foreign friends here in Korea who were in the same situation as me, so we managed to do some Christmas events. Because all of was wanted to feel more Christmas mood. The thing is that Koreans celebrate Christmas, but not nearly as much as in Europe, Africa, or America where Christmas are one of the greatest holidays for most people. So you don't see many decorations (especially if you live in a similar isolated place as us), you rarely hear any Christmas songs and there's only one Holiday during Christmas in South Korea - the 25th December.
With my Latin friends (we call ourselves 우리 가족 = our family and I think I will keep mentioning them in my post often 😉; our teachers/friends call us Latin family or Hola family) we prepared Secret Santa event few weeks before Christmas. With some fellow GKS students we agreed to do another Secret Santa (well one can not get enough of Christmas presents, right? 😁). And the last big event was Christmas cooking with Áňa, Lydia, Tamara and Vianey.
My first Christmas outside of the Czech Republic and without my family. It was a challenge. But fortunately I have many foreign friends here in Korea who were in the same situation as me, so we managed to do some Christmas events. Because all of was wanted to feel more Christmas mood. The thing is that Koreans celebrate Christmas, but not nearly as much as in Europe, Africa, or America where Christmas are one of the greatest holidays for most people. So you don't see many decorations (especially if you live in a similar isolated place as us), you rarely hear any Christmas songs and there's only one Holiday during Christmas in South Korea - the 25th December.
With my Latin friends (we call ourselves 우리 가족 = our family and I think I will keep mentioning them in my post often 😉; our teachers/friends call us Latin family or Hola family) we prepared Secret Santa event few weeks before Christmas. With some fellow GKS students we agreed to do another Secret Santa (well one can not get enough of Christmas presents, right? 😁). And the last big event was Christmas cooking with Áňa, Lydia, Tamara and Vianey.
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| Proof that I'm horrible at taking selfies. |
When we had Christmas dinner with 우리 가족 on the 23rd December the funniest thing which happend was Dani's gift opening. Well, she's a big fan of EXO (same as me, but like 100x bigger 😅) and her one and only wish for Christmas present was to get a new EXO album Obsession. But Vianey was super sneaky and put the album in a box of choclate cookies, so Dani was extremely disappointed and than she found the album! The saddest person on planet Earth turn in the happiest person in one second!
On Christmas Eve I went to another Christmas dinner and than to church! It was very interesting to
see the Christmas mass in different country, especially because it was so different from Czech! For me it felt more like the mass on Holy Saturday. And we were the only foreigners in the church - one small girls told her mum: "엄마 봐! 외국인!/Mum, look! Foreigner!" 😂
And than finally on 26th December we had our big cooking and eating event with Lydia, Tamara and Vianey. We tried to prepare some Christmas food from our countries, but we had to adjust them, becuase...you know. Korea. We had to work with what we could get. We had some struggles while cooking, but we managed to finish soon enough and we had a nice dinner all together.
So here I would like to officially thank to all the people who helped us to prepare the dinner and took part in the cooking, eating, cleaning and just spending time together. 💖
On Christmas Eve I went to another Christmas dinner and than to church! It was very interesting to
see the Christmas mass in different country, especially because it was so different from Czech! For me it felt more like the mass on Holy Saturday. And we were the only foreigners in the church - one small girls told her mum: "엄마 봐! 외국인!/Mum, look! Foreigner!" 😂
And than finally on 26th December we had our big cooking and eating event with Lydia, Tamara and Vianey. We tried to prepare some Christmas food from our countries, but we had to adjust them, becuase...you know. Korea. We had to work with what we could get. We had some struggles while cooking, but we managed to finish soon enough and we had a nice dinner all together.
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| Preperation of mashed potatoes with fried fish. |
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| Latino family and Bilim |
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