2016-10-27 It has been a long time since I last logged on to Italki. During the last two years I had moments of my life. I've travelled many places and I got my first job. Me and my boyfriend who had been together for more than 5 years went through a hard time. My first work was devastating mentally and physically, and the vulnerability inside me bursted out taking away my joy and gratitude toward life and people. Since I couldn't keep going on in that situation, I decided quit the job but then I chose to stay again but in a different department in the same company. It's been a year since I started my job and it's only a week after I moved to the new department. I came home today at 10 p.m. which means that I worked overtime 4 days in a row. What a life... How much I should try more? How can I just ignore people's expectations on me? Do those expectations even exist or is it just I am being so naive?

Je suis Lily. Je m'appelle Lily. Je suis Koreanne. Je mange du riz.

What portal site do you use everyday? What portal site do you use everyday? As a Korean, I use Naver.com and this is set as my homepage. I can read news, shop,google, watch blogs, join community there. Is there some websites like this in USA? Please tell me. I only know yahoo and google.

Papa, where are you going? There is a tv show that I don't miss every sunday. It's called 'Papa, where are you going?' in Korean '아빠 어디가?'. It's now season 2 and very popular tv program in Korea. In this tv show, five children aged 5~8 go on a trip with their fathers who are actors, an athlete, a singer, and an announcer. They usually go to rural areas of Korea so it's a memorable moment for their child who are used to the city life. The children get eggs out of the hen house(??), go to grocery shopping to traditional market by themselves, and fathers cook for them. Without having their moms around both children and fathers had troubles at first, but by doing this they get close more and more. I personally have never traveled with my father alone. The trips were either my grandfather and us(me and my two sisters) or family trip with mom. I don't know whether this is why I'm not that close to my father, but if we really had had the father-daughter time like them, things would have been very different from now. But I wouldn't blame my father for that, because he was busy to make living. And I also hope that the Korean children, who doesn't have fathers who can travel with them every weekend like this tv show, wouldn't feel sad, blame their fathers and make their fathers sad. Considering this, this program is a very enjoyable for me but on the other hand some fathers might feel unwelcoming pressure because of it. Still I laughed a lot today while watching the show. Kids were so cute, especially the part that they were trying to keep the eggs warm by blowing their breath after they took eggs out of hen house.

Riding a bicycle in Seoul,Korea I recently bought a bicycle and I try to ride on it whenever I get the free time. There is very well made bicycle road along the beautiful Han River, so I go there to ride. I rode my bike for about 1 and a half hour today. This really helps me to stay fit. In the elementary school, I learned that 70% of Korea is mountain ground( I mean not plain/flat). So most of the cities and roads are made by cutting these mountains. Because of that, there are so many unhills and downhills through out the city. Plus, Seoul is very crowded city so it's very dangerous to ride a bike in the city of seoul. All these facts explain why most riders in Seoul come to Han River for a ride. It's the same logic for skateboarders or rollerbladers. Imagine bicycle, skateboard and rollerblade use the same 'bicycle road'. It's very dangerous. I feel pity for all these leisure people that is growing rapidly. Soon Han River will be also crowded by many riders. And the freshness of riding along the river would be substituted to a stress. I hope that day come slowly. *your correction is so much appreciated! Please correct not only grammatical errors, but also unnatural word usage. you may rephrase the sentence to much more natural way. Any advice would be so helpful to me.*