D-58 is Friday and that is tomorrow.

Today is the end of D-59.




D-60.
Yesterday, I passed my application form for the TOPIK. It was my second time going to KCC, but my first time to go alone, and on a different route too.

I took an FX to Araneta-Center Cubao MRT station, dropped off Guadalupe Station, walked to a jeepney terminal and took a jeep with a "housing" plackard on it, that jeep headed for Pateros. I got off at Market!Market!, went in Jollibee and walked to the mall and got out (lol). I walked on and asked some lady selling hotdogs where the BGC Bus terminal was. She pointed its direction and I took that bus.

I got off at the Deutsche Bank and walked across 32nd street (?) and crossed the road once more. Then, I went inside the building. I faced the elevator and stared at it. A Korean man approached the elevator and realized that I haven't even pressed a button. So he pressed it and the elevator doors opened. I got on first, he followed. I waited for him to press the button and did nothing. I got off after him. He was obviously going there.

Anyway, it was lunch break so I had to wait a few more minutes. The person who came after me was Korean, but since she was running out of time, she went ahead of me. I sat behind her in the office and I almost, almost backed out. She and the person in charge, Mr. Kwon, talked in Korean (of course). It was cold and I felt really nervous that I kept on dropping my form. After all, who was I kidding? I couldn't even understand half of what they said! But then again, they were speaking in a fast manner, which isn't the case for the TOPIK.

The Korean applicant turned her head to me and apologized, explaining the reason why she went ahead of me. I nodded and smiled. I was afraid of saying '괜찮아요/괜찮습니다' or anything Korean that might make her think that I can speak Korean and I'd be doomed.

It was finally my turn, and again, all I did was nod and smile. My head kept screaming しまった！しまった！しまった！ My brain kept thinking in Japanese the whole time.

Anyway, when it was all over, Mr. Kwon said 'salamat' and all I did was smile and nod.

I walked back to the Bank, took a bus (the same bus I took from Market!Market!) back to Market!Market! I knew that it was the same bus when I saw the driver, his shades and hairstyle.

I got off at Market!Market! and explored a bit, remembering that I brought cupcakes with me. I ate one, walked around the 'fashion' part, whatever it was called, explored Saizen and saw two Koreans---but I ended up buying nothing, before 'shopping' for school materials at the National Bookstore. There, I saw 6 Korean kids. Koreans. Everywhere.

After buying things, I walked and saw a directory and got out where Jollibee was. I bought a coke float from McDo and drank it. Note that I haven't eaten lunch and that was a very dumb thing to do.

I asked the guard where I could find any jeepneys heading to Guadalupe. I walked to that direction and soon found a few jeepneys. I took the 3rd jeepney I saw.

After that, I walked to the Guadalupe station and realized that I took the wrong jeepney on my way to Market!Market!, but it didn't matter much since I got there anyway.

I got off at Araneta-center Cubao and entered the mall there.

I found myself wandering around the place, checking if there was something I could buy. One of the places I checked was CD-R King. After realizing how much time I wasted, I went out of the mall and walked to the FX station as I remembered. While waiting in the line, 3 to 4 Koreans walked by me.

Koreans. Everywhere.

I got home safely, thanks to God's guidance.


D-59
I printed the 29th TOPIK, wrote some notes from 'Using Korean', and a box to organize all my files.
I haven'd made any progress, I just started writing but I really should write a lot of things tomorrow, and memorize some vocabularies.

I have finished downloading all episodes of 黒子のバスケ、that's the last distraction I'm ever allowing myself to have.

Time to get organized.


Anyway, I found something for the TOPIK, though I still haven't checked how it's used. 네이버 영어사전