When I came to Korea as an exchange student, I didn’t know anybody. It wasn’t my first time to travel but it was my first time to move out. I wasn’t scared, though. I was excited and hopeful. I was able to completely redefine who I am. I would make a ton of new friends and live an exciting life.
However, the first few weeks were not very smooth. I did not have a lot of contact with the other exchange students because I missed the initial meeting with everybody. I also didn’t manage to make friends with the Korean students. I was too anxious to talk with them.
I was a little bit disappointed. This was not how this was supposed to go and every day that passed was one more day closer to going home again. Going home without having any kind of adventure. Then I saw the booth of the street dance club of our university.
I wanted to go there so badly. This was exactly what I needed. The first few times, I was too scared to talk with them. But on the last day they had the booth set up, I pulled myself together and just talked to them. I put my name in the list of interested people and I was hopeful again that everything would become great.