Koreans Vs Filipinos; Koreans & Filipinos

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More or less 50 students from different universities in Korea went to our school today. So our administration asked some students from our institution to welcome them. Ahhheeem, and who’s gonna take the throne? Of course, we, from the College of Arts and Sciences— particularly AB Political Science, BS Psychology and AB Masscomm— and the L-NU Performing Arts, has taken the privelege to tour and guide them in this one-day visit to Lyceum.

Actually, this isn’t my first time to have this kind of activity in our school because last year, some Koreans also went here to do the same the activities (like to see how Filipinos are good in English and in showing hospitality), but I can say that this time is more enjoyable than the previous. It just happened that I met more Korean friends and had a very fun day with them.

When they arrived, we welcomed them (as what our admistration told us). By the way, the purpose of this were: (1) to gain more friends; (2) to attract Korean students to study in our school  through showing them our caliber in English; and (3) to teach them about our country and tell them how English language is very important in communication.

So that’s it— after a short programme and lunch with the Koreans, the school allowed the chosen students to come with them anywhere they want (that means, we’re excused from our classes). Filipinos must meet Koreans (like each must have a Korean partner), and take a tour.

I, along with my other Filipino companions, had an easy time to find a group of Korean hotties. They were Aaron, Mikey, Deodore, Jack and Jonny (English names).

First, they wanna go bowling. So we went in CSI. Oh you know, it was my very first time to play bowling. We really enjoyed it—like of carrying a 10 pound bowling ball, glide in the arena, get a miss shot… and a strike! Yes, though it’s my first time, I got a strike!

After two hours of playing, our group ate in the McDonalds. So it’s been a time for conversations. We asked them if they could speak English, they said they never speak the language in their country (that’s why they are here to learn), so they had a hard time on speaking it. We said “it’s okay” (So Bea and I gave our email addresses for a business! hahhahaah e.i for an online tutorial!) However, they could still understand us (I almost have to say “So, are you having a ‘nosebleed’ now?” hahahaah)

We could see that the other groups were really enjoying with their newly introduced friends (others have their partners already!) Some spent their day on eating, playing and taking pictures.

Well I guess they found us very smart. You see, we had fine conversations with them (and shared about what we know not only of our culture but of theirs as well)

Now I realized that it’s so good to be a Filipino because Filipino people are globally competitive and world class. Wherever we’ll be in the world, we could still have a great time together with other nationalities because we could speak the universal language well.

“Be world class, speak English.”

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