Graduation

"As we go on, we will remember, all the times we, had together." 

So on Thursday it was finally my convocation day. The ridiculous part, it being at 9:30am, no not that, the part where we have to be there at 7:30am. I slept through my alarm, so I was already running late to get out of my house, for only both the bus to stop at a bus stop and wait for nobody, just stopped there for minutes. So much for being an express bus. And once on the subway, more delays, from Finch all the way to Davisville or Summerhill or something. Yes, the TTC always find ways to irritate me. Ok so I finally made there a bit past 8, not bad. The ceremony was also running late, we were all waiting, and lining up to go into the theatre, but we had to first walk a lap around the quad lol I kinda felt bad for the girls who all had heels. 


The ceremony was nice and as always I was at the end, thanks a lot to my surname being Yeung, I am always last nearly all the time. I felt my heart beating as it was nearing my turn, I don't know why, maybe the fear of doing something stupid while crossing the stage, or just finally realizing I really am going to be finished with my bachelor's degree. Whatever it was, it didn't affect me as I strut on through to give thanks and claim my degree!


Reception was nice and seeing my family there was special too. This was my first convocation, I didn't go to my high school one, but I did go to my sister's graduation at York. It was great to see my parents, my sister, my grandparents, and even my uncle with my little cousins there, all to give me hugs and more words of encouragement and congratulations. Then the photo frenzy occurred, though it was unfortunate I couldn't have a picture with all the friends I have made while at Ryerson, but I got it with some.


I'll end this post with some photos (which I saved from my Facebook album and its not the original files cause it would have taken a long time to upload those 8mb file each) and a thank you to Ryerson University for a decent and all the great wonderful people I had the privilege to work and meet to make my experience a surprisingly good 5 years of my young life. 

Sister and Me

Parents and Sister

Grandparents and Me

My cousins and Me 

James and Me

Karen and Me 

Steph and Me

Anna and Me 

Amy and Me 

Team Awesome, helped made summer school worthwhile

Ivan and Me

Missed K Trinh

Seoul 4.

Day four consisted a lot of things... particularly shopping. It did however include a stop at one of the old emperor's palace/temple where we took a couple of pictures. It had a similar design as those from China, but then again Korea has been influenced by China, Japan, and America.

Next was a stop at the popular spot of Myeong-dong...there were literally at least 100 make up stores in that one area. I did also find the Forever 21 in Seoul, which was pretty big like 3 floors and a larger male section. Too bad I couldn't find anything I liked...

At night, I tried going to see the fountain bridge at night, too bad the guide didn't provide much information and I couldn't see anything..I managed to take a couple of night shots though, but wasn't too happy I couldn't see the bridge. Dinner was nice, had authentic Korean barbecue...simply delicious.

Seoul 3.

On day 3, we moved from the Dart resort and drove back to Seoul. But we made a pit stop at this gorgeous herb city where there were vast flowers and beautiful scenery for all. I made a candle with colourful wax and all at their DIY place, and we had a very weird lunch, which I didn't really eat... It was literally flowers and grass plucked from the ground... so I just ate my bowl of rice and kimchi...

From there we drove for another hour to the closest South/North Korean border... it was surreal to visit a place where there was once war and is now a DMZ- demilitarized zone. To see the other side of Korea, it just felt good to be on the South side of it. There were barbed-wire throughout the whole perimeter and armed soldiers on patrol. The memorial picture depicts where South Koreans pray and pay their respects to their loved ones who died in North Korea during the war and was not brought back to South Korea for proper burial.

For dinner that night, we had a hot pot style dinner with pork and chicken with some veggies and tofu... and some more sitting on the floor. My legs were sore after...

Seoul 2:

On day two, we started off with some ramen at this shop. Let me tell you, it was delicious!!! The noodles here wasn't like the Japanese type but it was Korean which was much more thinner... It started with its appetizer dishes... The rice balls were really good too and I usually don't like to eat them, but these ones were special, it had bits of see-weed and other random things.

We then went to the "green house" similar to the United State's "White House". It's where the Korean president lives and works from... got to take a couple of pictures here, and when we were leaving, there was a barricade of escorts, I wonder who it was for...

For lunch, it was pork and chicken on our own barbecue. The Pepsi bottle looked pretty flashy too.

After lunch we went to Everland theme park... it was a Sunday so there were unusually a large amount of families there... we lined up for nearly an hour for the water ride with the whole tour group. The park itself was beautiful and as we were going down the chair lift, a parade was going on.

Again, I love animals and aquatic life, if I wasn't any interested or good with science, I would have considered being a zoologist or something to do with animals. I was surprised at the quality of the park's animal exhibits.. the lions and tigers were awake for once... It must be one of the rare times I have seen them awake cause they're usually just sleeping...The sea-lion show was really entertaining as well (although it was narrated in Korean) they did tricks like jumping of dive boards, dribbling and scoring a basketball into the net with its nose, and standing upright. I was impressed.

We spent the night and next morning and Dart resort... it wasn't the greatest, but the nature was beautiful. Why is Korea such a beautiful country? I really could see myself living there one day in the near future...