4. ์ž…์ด ํŠธ์ด๋Š” ์˜์–ด 74

24.09.19 Living Alone for the First Time

Sometimes, I find myself thinking about my days living in a dorm as a student. ๋ฌธ๋“ ๋‚˜์˜ ํ•™์ฐฝ ์‹œ์ ˆ ๊ธฐ์ˆ™์‚ฌ ์ƒํ™œ์ด ๋– ์˜ค๋ฅผ ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค. * find oneself thinking about : ๋ฌธ๋“ ~์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹I got accepted into a university far from home, and it was my first time living apart from my parents. ๋‚˜๋Š” ํƒ€์ง€์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต์— ํ•ฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜๊ณผ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ์‚ด๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. * get accepted into : ~์— ํ•ฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๋‹ค* live apart from one’s parents : ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜๊ณผ ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ์‚ด๋‹คโ€‹Some kids arrived at the..

24.09.20 Overseas Trip for a Big Family

I am the eldest of four siblings, and my youngest brother is currently living in Japan. ์ €๋Š” 4๋‚จ๋งค์˜ ์žฅ๋…€๋กœ ๋ง‰๋‚ด ๋™์ƒ์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ผ๋ณธ์—์„œ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ ์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * the eldest of four siblings : 4๋‚จ๋งค ์ค‘์˜ ์žฅ๋…€โ€‹โ€‹Thanks to the unprecedented weak yen and the close distance, we decided to plan a family trip to visit him. ์œ ๋ก€์—†๋Š” ์—”์ €(์—”ํ™” ์•ฝ์„ธ)์™€ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์ƒ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๊ณณ์ด์–ด์„œ, ๋ง‰๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๊ณ„ํšํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * unprecedented weak yen : ์œ ๋ก€์—†๋Š” ์—”์ € * plan a family trip : ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์—ฌํ–‰..

24.09.23 An Incident with Neighbors

Not long after we moved into our current apartment, our downstairs neighbor knocked on our door. ์ง€๊ธˆ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ๋กœ ์ด์‚ฌ ์˜จ ์ง€ ์–ผ๋งˆ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„ ์•„๋ž˜์ธต์— ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ง‘ ๋ฌธ์„ ๋‘๋“œ๋ ธ๋‹ค.* move into : ~์— ์ž…์ฃผํ•˜๋‹ค* downstairs neighbor : ์•„๋ž˜์ธต ์ด์›ƒโ€‹He asked if we could keep it down at night since they had a high school senior in their family. ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์ค‘์— ๊ณ 3 ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ ๋ฐค์— ์กฐ๊ธˆ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ํ•ด ๋‹ฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. * keep it down : ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ํ•˜๋‹ค* high school senior : ๊ณ 3 ํ•™์ƒโ€‹I sincere..

24.09.24 Our “์ž…ํŠธ์˜“ and Parenting Group

We are an “์ž…ํŠธ์˜“ study group that first got started in the fall of 2016. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 2016๋…„ ๊ฐ€์„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ‘์ž…ํŠธ์˜’ ์Šคํ„ฐ๋”” ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * first get started : ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹After delivering our babies, it felt depressing and stifling to just stay at home all day. ์ถœ์‚ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚˜์„œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ข…์ผ ์ง‘์—๋งŒ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์šฐ์šธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ต๋‹ตํ•ด์„œ, * deliver one’s baby : ์ถœ์‚ฐํ•˜๋‹ค* feel depressing and stifling : ์šฐ์šธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ต๋‹ตํ•˜๋‹ค* just stay at home : ์ง‘์—๋งŒ ์žˆ๋‹คโ€‹So, we formed a group where we ..

24.09.25 Coal Briquette Volunteer Work

I recently went to deliver coal briquettes as volunteer work. I found the project through a volunteer website. ์ €๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ์— ํ•œ ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋œ ์—ฐํƒ„ ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌ ๋ด‰์‚ฌ ํ™œ๋™์„ ๋‹ค๋…€์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€‹* deliver coal briquettes : ์—ฐํƒ„์„ ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹* volunteer work : ๋ด‰์‚ฌ ํ™œ๋™โ€‹Volunteers make a donation of 10,000 won which is used to purchase coal briquettes. ๋ด‰์‚ฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ์›์„ ๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ทธ ๋ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐํƒ„์„ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ , โ€‹* make a donation : ๊ธฐ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹The briquettes are then delivered..

24.09.26 Nursing Homes

My 91-year-old mother’s dementia took a turn for the worse this year. โ€‹์˜ฌํ•ด 91์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์‹  ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ๊ป˜์„œ ์น˜๋งค๊ฐ€ ์ ์  ์‹ฌํ•ด์ง€์…จ๋‹ค. * take a turn for the worse : ์•…ํ™”๋˜๋‹คโ€‹She is taking prescription medication, but it only slows the progression; there is no cure. ์น˜๋งค์•ฝ์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ๋ฐ›์•„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ์ง€๋งŒ, ์น˜๋งค๋ฅผ ๋Šฆ์ถœ ๋ฟ์ด์ง€ ์™„์พŒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.* take prescription medication : ์ฒ˜๋ฐฉ์•ฝ์„ ๋ณต์šฉํ•˜๋‹ค* slow the progression : ์•…ํ™”[์ง„์ฒ™]์„ ๋Šฆ์ถ”๋‹ค* there is no cure : ์™„์พŒ๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹Caring for m..

24.09.27 โ€‹My Urban Sektches

In 2018, I successfully completed the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in Spain. โ€‹์ €๋Š” 2018๋…„์— ์ŠคํŽ˜์ธ์˜ ์‚ฐํ‹ฐ์•„๊ณ  ์ˆœ๋ก€๊ธธ์„ ์™„์ฃผํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * successfully complete : ์™„์ฃผํ•˜๋‹ค, ์™„์„ฑํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹Although I have never formally studied drawing, I used a pen to sketch the landscapes and people of Spain that I saw every day while walking this route. ์ €๋Š” ์ •์‹์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ๋ฐฐ์šด ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ์ˆœ๋ก€๊ธธ์„ ๊ฑธ์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ๋งค์ผ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ณธ ์ŠคํŽ˜์ธ์˜ ํ’๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ํŽœ์œผ๋กœ ์Šค์ผ€์น˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * never formally studied ..

24.10.08 Podaegi

A podaegi, or Korean baby sling, is a small blanket used to carry a baby on one’s back. ํฌ๋Œ€๊ธฐ๋Š” ์•„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์—…์„ ๋•Œ ์“ฐ๋Š” ์ž‘์€ ์ด๋ถˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * carry a baby on one’s back : ์•„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์—…๋‹คโ€‹Nowadays, various types of baby carriers have been developed, so these baby slings are not used as much. ์š”์ฆ˜์€ ์•„๊ธฐ๋ ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํฌ๋Œ€๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งŽ์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. * various types of : ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ข…๋ฅ˜์˜โ€‹However, a podaegi is an excellent Korean childcare product that..

24.10.07 Loving Math

I loved math during my school days. ๋‚˜๋Š” ํ•™์ฐฝ ์‹œ์ ˆ์— ์ˆ˜ํ•™์„ ๋ฌด์ฒ™ ์ข‹์•„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. * during one’s school days : ํ•™์ฐฝ ์‹œ์ ˆ์— I always had a math workbook on hand, and I felt so satisfied as I solved each problem and got the answers right. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋Š˜ ์ˆ˜ํ•™ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ง‘์ด ๋‚ด ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ฌธ์ œ๋“ค์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜์”ฉ ํ’€์–ด ๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ๋‹ต์„ ๋งžํ˜€ ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๋•Œ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด ๊ฝค ์ข‹์•˜๋‹ค. * have something on hand : ~์„ ์ง€์ฐธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค * get the answer right : ์ •๋‹ต์„ ๋งžํžˆ๋‹ค Even at work, I was able to showcase my skills whenever ..

How I Study English

24.09.30 In September 2020, I moved to a job at a foreign company. 2020๋…„ 9์›” ๋‚˜๋Š” ์™ธ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋กœ ์ด์ง์„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. * move to a job : ์ง์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์งํ•˜๋‹คโ€‹โ€‹Meetings with corporate headquarters about our products were held in English every other week, and they were a major challenge for me. ๊ฒฉ์ฃผ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ณธ์‚ฌ์™€์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ด€๋ จ ์˜์–ด ํšŒ์˜๋Š” ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ํฐ ๊ณ ํ†ต์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. * every other week : ๊ฒฉ์ฃผ๋กœ* a major challenge : ๋งค์šฐ ํž˜๋“  ์ผโ€‹So, exactly 10 years since college graduat..