I'm feeling pretty good about myself these days. I've really been hitting the books. Today I finished the first volume of my Korean Through English books that Jin's mother and sister sent for me. I can't say how good it felt!

Since I was so excited to move on and begin the second volume, I started right away. I was really in for a wake-up call. I went from feeling pretty smart using phrases like: 'When did you come here?' and 'what will you do tomorrow?' to feeling like an idiot.

On page 7 of the new book, there is a page long essay entirely in Korean. Of course there is also a list of new vocabulary but there are only 20 words on it...I wonder where I was supposed to pick up all the other words because I sincerely doubt that I learned all of those in the first volume. We'll see. I'm going to force myself to do a chapter a week.

In other news, I'm still waiting for news on Sweden and grad school. It's driving me crazy. I flip on my computer first thing every morning hoping for an email or announcement on the University Web site. I can hardly wait till 2:00 when the mailman comes. I've even started answering the door when someone rings the doorbell as opposed to quietly sneeking up to the peep hole. All that's come from that is a lot of Jehovah's Witness pamphlets piling up. At this point, I'd rather hear bad news than no news. I just want to find out where I'll be 3 months from now and if I should start concentrating more on Swedish than Korean.