November 18, 2005.

Yahoo! Finals are over and I got into Cheongshim!!! ...I'm soo happy now. Looks like my address is changing again~


December 5, 2006.

Cheongshim is a fraud and a name-weilding, degree-decorating, brainwashing, dream-draining, inflexible, hypocritical institution.

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What a difference in attitude. Now I tend to think, "How I naive I was. How little I really knew about the education system in Korea." I now know the reality: most people didn't want to come here as their first choice, and it's going to be years after we graduate that this school finally reaches its full potential, if it does at all. I thought that Cheongshim was my best choice; I liked the motto and the advertised curriculum, which supposedly included many more options than regular high schools. I came to Cheongshim and found it guilty of having raised my expectations far higher than they ever should have been.

Listening to a song entitled "Keep Holding On" on December 5th was one of the biggest ironies, because I was then seriously considering quitting Cheongshim and going back to America. But I was addicted to that song, and still am...

The last line of my little memo on December 5th said, "Should I keep holding on?"

Is it worth it?