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[rinadesu-blog1]

Hello my fellow weirdo’s out there, So just an little announcement I want to make to you all 🚨 If you see me on campus/near campus, and want to say hi, PLEASE SAY HI! I mean it! My friend told me she was scared to approach me once cause she thought I was scary with my resting bitch face but I swear I’m just tired and I will greet you with a smile 😊 I love interacting with you all so please don’t be afraid to say hi if you actually want to!

[donnallycaia]

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[rinadesu-blog1]

So the last semester of my freshman year is over and I’m now a sophomore at Ewha guys... time moves so fast here and I’m going home to Scotland for a month soon before I come back here for the next semester... also I got an apartment... want a tour?

[rinadesu-blog1]

Chapel Sessions: The Low Down

( I honestly wanna sing " do the low down, throw down" when I see that title omg)

⚠️Warning ⚠️ : Chapel does not apply for master students or exchange students, this isn't mandatory for you!

HUMANS OF THE WORLD. Or more specifically humans of the world who already do or are thinking about attending ewha as a full time undergraduate ( freshman or transfer). You are in for the time of your life. A little thing me and my friends call the hymns of hell, but it is more officially known as mandatory chapel.

Currently I am sitting in the little blue seats of row 나 on the second floor, waiting for the god foresaken ( ha, irony) session to be over with.

Nobody likes this. Trust me. If you meet a student here that says they actually enjoy getting up early for this shit, well I'll be damned.

So a lot of people applying to Ewha actually ask me in the ask section; what is chapel and is it actually mandatory? Well I'm here to answer all of your questions~

Chapel is pretty easy to breakdown. Yes, it is mandatory. You need eight credits, or four if you're a transfer, in the four/two years you are here at ewha. Each registration is worth one credit and you can register for two sessions a week. Every semester you must take at least one chapel or you will be reprimanded.

Unlucky for me, I didn't know about this until after finals, so the semester was over at this point, and I was told that I would have to take two this semester or write out the new and old Korean testament ten times each, which I was not doing.

The sessions are once a week if you just take the given registration, but if you register for more then one, you go twice a week like me. You are allowed up to three absences before you are disqualified for the semester.

I've decided to take two chapels a week for the rest of the semesters until it's over. That way, I will be finished by my junior first semester, and I've seen many girls do this, pretty smart to be honest, to get it over and done with before the hardest year of your university career comes and you're busy with all your work on top of a thesis and an internship.

You should arrive at chapel at least five minutes before to get to your seat. If you're a few mins late, there's no point even trying, they've taken attendance by that point.

Chapel is basically announcement centre. They have some hymns by the school singers and choir, and sometimes they do little religious plays, for example right now there a play about a working woman going through stress who goes to her priest for a conversation and guidance ( it's kinda yawns feast tbh). Most of the time, after singing, they announce school achievements or weekly ongoing's on campus. It's only half an hour, so we bare with it.

A lot of girls take a nap as we all have to wake up early for the ten am start and our dorms are pretty far away. Most of the girls watch movies or programs on their phones with headphones, or text or play games to pass the time. Nobody usually pays attention, unless it's super important.

So that's chapel, at the end, everyone floods to get out of the doors to their next class or to grab a cup of coffee from Starbucks next to the chapels ECC. ( I'm literally falling asleep rn as the lights are off and I'm so tired, SOS fam).

Until next time, 나중에 봐요~

- Rina ( 영국여자/Me&MySeoul) 🖤

[rinadesu-blog1]

Today is a very precious day for me. I'm very emotional. I am glad to call myself a fellow sister of 이화여자대학교 ( Ewha Woman's University). Yesterday evening, during the annual student council meeting, we had a turn out of around 2,100 students. The most in a very long time. The reason why? To make a change. Recently the MeToo Movement made it's way to Korea and has been making waves ever since. Not long ago, a girl, who previously reported this to the administration over a year ago, came out to let her story be heard again. That she was sexually harassed and molested by a professor on campus. Following this, another student came forward to tell her story, and more have anonymously come forward on a private chat board for full time students. The professors, known as Professor K and Professor S, from the Art & Design and Music departments, have been called into question, creating the RoomMate movement and fury between students. For weeks now we have been fighting the board to make a difference, to change the system and rid the school of professors like these. We have signed petition after petition, and many have made protest, leaving classes all at the same time within the art department, or just plainly handing out and putting up filers for the cause. On Wednesday evening, we all gathered at the 대강당 ( a.k.a our chapel) for a huge student meeting. After days of each department getting their students to sign petitions, we all gathered in one place, ready to protest. We went through the normal procedure of daily news and announcements, and then we finally moved onto the topic of the issue at hand. We listened to heart wrenching accounts from the victims, and heard debates from council members. Finally, with over 2,100 people in the hall, we voted, and 2,096 people voted in agreement. It was time to march. Tonight, at 7pm, we met as one at the main gate on campus, coloured in purple and armed with our mobile lights, balloons, flyers and music sheets, we marched to ECC and shouted what we wanted, chanting so everyone could hear. We, with over 2,000 people, sat on the ECC stairs, covering them head to toe in humans and lights, and sang in unison for hours. We will stand together as sisters, and defend our own. We have the right to say NO. And tonight we proved that. And if the administration staff does nothing after this... well, they're fools. We shall wait and see, but until then, I want the world to know what happened these past few weeks, and how it is has tried to be silenced. We won't let it silently disappear like in the past. Not this time.

[rinadesu-blog1]

~Questions~

Just a heads up~ I'm always down to answer questions, whether that means answering them straight up or linking you to an older post that has all of the info you need. If you ask me a question and I've been asked it multiple times before, then I'll reserve that question for a post of it's own, and let you know privately~

- Rina ( 영국여자/ Me&MySeoul) 🖤