To Infinity and Beyond

“If you like easy, my program isn’t for you. Nothing great comes from easy.” A quote from the movie “Big Hero 6”. The quote itself: not bad and quite touching, but to common. As a 13 year old boy, the movie was just one of the Disney movies that I enjoyed; the quote just went into one of my ears and came out through the other. No big thoughts about it. But when I saw this movie again a 3 weeks ago (I don’t know what drove me to watch it; maybe I just wanted to go back to being a little kid), things were totally different. Life as a high school student, especially in KMLA, is definitely CHALLENGING. Even when you live in a dormitory for about 600 days, you don’t get used to getting up at 6:00am to go to exercise through the freezing air that pierces your skin. You don’t get used to the overwhelming schoolwork, club activity, and contests that overwhelm you and shred your schedule. But here in KMLA, in a life like this you can do something great. I know, in fact, that only in m

I’m proud to say that I had a quite happy youth. Many factors played a role in that: position of my school (right in front of Garosu-gil, one of the hottest places in Seoul), supporting parents, and my ability to be scholarly top between my peers with a little effort (not in KMLA, but at middle school, I was quite smart actually). But still, the main reasons were my friends. Since I was young, I loved people, especially friends because I was an only child. They were my brothers and sisters. Although I love all (well, at least most) of my friends in my youth, sadly, its very hard to contact them regularly in a dormitory school in Gangwondo. Still, I have six friends that I still keep in contact, meet at least once a year, and truly love. So, today I will talk about who they are and how they influenced me. My first friend, L, a skinny boy with a height similar as me. He is basically the my ‘bob’ friend (best of best friend). He was in my first grade class in middle school and l