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a letter from Korea

 
What happend?
When I arrived at my place last Monday (March 3th), I was suprised to find a letter from South-Korea addressed towards me. It has been a long time since one of my Korean friends wrote me a snailmail. I anxiously opened the envelope to see what's inside that made it almost burst. It was an letter from Eunme, who has put two candies along with her letter (fully written in Korean (Hangeul) language, but luckely an additional broken English translated page attacted).

Eunme?
Eunme is one of my korean friends who I met on a penpal site to improve my korean language, including my writings. But after time our contact faded, due our time gasp of 8 hours, and it was a long time ago, that I had spoke to her on MSN or received an email from her. But on the February 24th, there she was.. online on MSN. We spoke hours, since we had a lot to tell to each other. She was so happy that she immediatly wrote me a snailmail after our chit-chat and that letter is now next to my keyboard along with the sweet candies.

What did she wrote?
Eunme, like all my friends, knows about my plan to emigrate to South-Korea and that I'll visit Korea in the near future (the plan is to go in 2009) to orientate and backpack for a month there. This trip is to see if my imigration-idea is a valid and realizable plan and to visit all my native friends. She wrote me that she is really hoping that I'll come to Korea next year, since she was a bit disappointed that I cancelled my trip to Korea last summer due unexpected house-moving. She's really looking forward to meet me and wants to show all the good sight-seeing locations. She agreed on the fact that it is better to go summers due more festivals and good weather, rather than in the winter. Unfortunately she won't see me a lot if I go during the summer, since she needs to go to school everyday (including sathurdays). It's still strange to know how the Korean Education System (KES) works. Did you know for example that in Korea, students have 2 months winter-vacation and less than a month summer-vacation and that almost every student follows after his schooltime additional courses at (private) after-schools? Interesting huh? It seems that on almost every first email or letter I get, they all write some explanation about the KES. So did Eunme on her letter.
And lastly she wants to know more about The Netherlands; the language and culture and will maybe come to visit me one day.

While eating one of the candybars she attached and try to read her korean version, I'll write her a reply letter after a good nightsleep. Hopefully my korean writing is good enough to let her understand what I'm trying to say in my letter. Any help is appreciated. Anyone?

Joe

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