Mantra of the day, "remember your learning goals"

Wow wheat I could say about my learning goals before I came here is really quite a bit, most likely due to the fact that I talk a lot (haha), but it's that skill of talking a lot that I planned to utilize to achieve my goals. Before coming here I wanted an authentic immersive Korean experience that would not only give me some insight in to the Koreans national identity, but also learn about their business culture, see how Confucianism has affect the country, and also all the same for my fellow foreighn students. In order to achieve this I have taken certain steps such as the first day of the UIP program we had to go up in front of the class and present ourselves and tell why we had come to Korea. Amoung the other things that I shared I took out time to just alert the other participants that I could be very talkative and ask many questions about them because for many of them they would be the closest I may ever come to being in their country. If I remember right I said something to the effect of," so yea just to let you all know I am a very friendly open guy and I don't really have much of a bubble, so just warn you I'll asking each one of you a lot of questions about yourself and your country. I thought I should let you know so you didn't think I was just a creepy guy that super intersted in you(haha)". Luckily I was met with many laughs, and later many receptive people.  So as the days have progressed I have had many deep insightful question that challenge not only their limits , but thankfully have made us all ask ourselves hard questions.  As for understand Korea better, I can confidently say that my insight to the Korean mindset has grown by leaps and bounds I would have never been able to achieve if I had stayed in the USA.