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24.10.28 My Best Friend's Wedding

My older sister and I are four years apartโ€‹.์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์–ธ๋‹ˆ์™€ ๋‚˜๋Š” 4์‚ด ํ„ฐ์šธ๋กœ, * be four years apart : 4์‚ด ํ„ฐ์šธ์ด๋‹คโ€‹Compared to other sisters, we have always gotten along really well since we were young.๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ž๋งค๋“ค์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์–ด๋ฆด ๋•Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋Š˜ ์‚ฌ์ด๊ฐ€ ์•„์ฃผ ์ข‹์•˜๋‹ค. * get along really well : ์•„์ฃผ ์‚ฌ์ด์ข‹๊ฒŒ ์ง€๋‚ด๋‹คโ€‹We occasionally fought over clothes, just like most sisters do, but we knew each other so well that we would quickly make up as if nothing had happ..

24.10.25 Carrots

Carrots can be consumed in a million different ways. ๋‹น๊ทผ์€ ๋งค์šฐ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์„ญ์ทจํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. * a million different ways : ๋งค์šฐ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•(์œผ๋กœ)โ€‹You can eat them raw, but you can amp up the flavor and nutrition even further by stir-frying them in oil. ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋จน์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์— ๋ณถ์•„์„œ ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด ๋ง›๊ณผ ์˜์–‘์„ ๋”์šฑ ์‚ด๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. * eat something raw : ~์„ ์ตํžˆ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋‚ ๋กœ ๋จน๋‹ค* amp up the flavor : ํ’๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์‚ด๋ฆฌ๋‹ค* stir-fry something in oil : ~์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„์— ๋ณถ๋‹คโ€‹They can also be ..

24.10.24 Visiting the Cook Islands

In December 2023, I visited the Cook Islands in the South Pacific. ์ €๋Š” 2023๋…„ 12์›”์— ๋‚จํƒœํ‰์–‘์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์ฟก ์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ์— ๋‹ค๋…€์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€‹The country was named after Captain James Cook. ์ฟก ์•„์ผ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ์ œ์ž„์Šค ์ฟก ์„ ์žฅ์˜ ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ๋”ฐ์„œ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ์ง€์€ ๊ณณ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.* by named after : ~์˜ ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ๋”ฐ๋‹คโ€‹It takes about 24 hours to get there by plane from Korea. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋‚˜๋ผ์—์„œ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๋กœ ๋Œ€๋žต 24์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ€์•ผ ๋„์ฐฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * take about 24 hours : ์•ฝ 24์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค* get there by plane : ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๋กœ ์ด๋™ํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹Like most Pac..

24.10.23 My Battle with Tuberculosis

Fifteen years ago, I was preparing to move into a dormitory after being accepted into the medical school of my dreams. 15๋…„ ์ „, ๊ณ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋˜ ์˜ํ•™ ์ „๋ฌธ ๋Œ€ํ•™์›์— ํ•ฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ ๊ธฐ์ˆ™์‚ฌ ์ž…์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, * be accepted into : ~์— ํ•ฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๋‹ค* of one’s dreams : ๊ฟˆ๊พธ๋Š”, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์›ํ•˜๋Š”โ€‹That’s when I was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis. ํ๊ฒฐํ•ต์„ ์ง„๋‹จ๋ฐ›๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. * be diagnosed with : ~์ง„๋‹จ์„ ๋ฐ›๋‹คโ€‹Dorm residents are typically required to get an X-ray to check for i..

24.10.22 My German Eye Doctor

I’ve been living in Munich, Germany since last April. I moved here with my husband, who is stationed here for work. ์ €๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„ 4์›”๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ฃผ์žฌ์›์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœ๋ น๋ฐ›์€ ๋‚จํŽธ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋…์ผ ๋ฎŒํ—จ์—์„œ ์ง€๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * be stationed somewhere for work : ์—…๋ฌด๋กœ ๋ฐœ๋ น์„ ๋ฐ›๋‹คโ€‹One day, my eyes started itching and became bloodshot.ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋Š” ๋ˆˆ์ด ๊ฐ€๋ ต๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋”๋‹ˆ ์ถฉํ˜ˆ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , * become bloodshot : (๋ˆˆ์ด) ์ถฉํ˜ˆ๋˜๋‹คโ€‹Eventually, I couldn’t bear the pain. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—๋Š” ํ†ต์ฆ์„ ์ฐธ๊ธฐ ํž˜๋“ค์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * can’t bear the pai..

24.10.21 Broken Ankle

In early November, I took a fall while indoor climbing and broke my ankle. 11์›” ์ดˆ, ์ €๋Š” ์‹ค๋‚ด ํด๋ผ์ด๋ฐ์„ ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋‚™์ƒ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋กœ ๋ฐœ๋ชฉ์ด ๋ถ€๋Ÿฌ์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * take a fall : ๋‚™์ƒ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๋‹คโ€‹I twisted my right ankle as I fell, and I heard a “snap” from that side. ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ ๋ฐœ๋ชฉ์ด ๋’คํ‹€๋ฆฐ ์ƒํƒœ์—์„œ ๋–จ์–ด์กŒ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์˜ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ ๋ฐœ๋ชฉ์—์„œ ‘๋น ๊ฐ’ํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * twist one’s ankle : ๋ฐœ๋ชฉ์„ ์‚๋‹คโ€‹I went to a nearby orthopedic clinic and took an X-ray, which revealed that I had fractures in three pl..