Zing!

I took two years of Korean in college so one would think by now my Korean would be outta this world, right? WRONG! I feel as though I've gotten worse if that's even possible. I'm trudging through these language books I bought and got to level 2 on the Rosetta Stone, but when I go out in public I'm one of those people that just smiles and nods when someone talks to me without a single clue in my head what they are saying. I saw an ad for classes at a hagwon, but it's supposedly really intense with like, 2 hours of homework every night. Plus this guy I met at English camp will be there and for some reason I feel awkward about it, like he might think I'm stalking him or something. I wouldn't be, of course, so that shouldn't really make a difference. I suppose I'm just scared I'll be an utter failure and look ridiculous in front of everybody. But since I flaked on the YMCA classes, then lied and told the director I couldn't go because I moved to a new city (I don't even know why I said that, it was like, I got trapped in a corner and said the first thing that came to mind; as if she even cares.) But I'm feeling more and more frustrated about the fact that I can't speak very well because the guy downstairs has been here for the same amount of time and he's pretty much fluent. He even has a home-grown Korean girlfriend. I recently was informed that he found her using some sort of Korean dating website and also that his school offered to get him plastic surgery to remove his freckles.