PLN at KIS

Me and my devilish bear friendship started with a perverted expression, “Yo Babe”. Currently, I’m a senior at this miserable school called Korea International School. For approximately four years, I have spent my time learning what ‘ABC’ actually was and that’s about it. But I have realized the real ‘thing’ I learned over the past several years; True friendship. I attended KIS when I was in my freshmen year. Because I partied too much and rarely studied in the US, I had to come to Korea and had to see my parent’s b o r i n g face again. The day when I first came to KIS was really awkward. There was no one next to me and everyone was definitely tall and scary-looking. Except this guy, Alex Rhim.

My homeroom class had only 4 guys and the rest of the classmates were all girls. How wonderful, but sad. It was my first day of high school and I couldn’t just go up to this random girl and start babbling. I had to talk with a guy and make him as my friend first in order to be cool enough to talk to anyone else. So, I set my mind. I walked over to the guys and stood there, blinking. Nothing much to do, but just to blink my eyes and listen. I tried my best to start a new conversation about my self, but just couldn’t because of this game called “WOW”. Wow, I was amazed that they were really into it, naming all these creatures that I almost thought of some Thai food. What a great start…

The time came, where I had to be miserable and sit in the bathroom for over 30 minutes; Lunch time. Holding my tray, I was looking for a possible seat to sit until this guy, Kang called me up. He told me to sit on his table since there was one left. Seriously, I was delighted and had to sit with a big smile. But the problem came when Kang asked me a question. “So. Your name is Kevin right? What do you think about our school?” I tried to be kewl and all pimped out, telling him “It sucks! What kind of school is this!?” Of course, what was I thinking… My stupidity lead to a silence where I had to eat without knowing names of others. I knew I just screwed up my freshmen year and therefore no need of going to this school. ‘Am I going to be isolated from the others?’ was the question that kept popping in my head.

Attending school with sadness, one day Kang started to talk to me about this paper in Creative Writing class. We started off by talking about some grammar crap and ended by saying a comment “Yo babe”. That time, Alex, who I always thought he is a genuine girl, was saying, “Yo mama”, trying to let us laugh. For me, instead of a laugh, pretty words came out, which were ‘what a female dog’, ’some jackbutt’ And then I made a smirk, thinking ‘Alex=Loser’. Well, the funny thing was he thought that I was smirking because of his joke on some mom… Naive little bastard. Enough about him.

So from that point, Kang and I enjoyed making up jokes and smiles lead to a true friendship. Not only during school days, but we also met during the weekends and had fun playing pool and poker. Girls… Well Kang had all the girls on his side and there was no chance for me to hang out with them like Kang. For me, it didn’t matter that much because the one that I needed was always next to me. However, at the middle of our senior year, things went gross. Leading us to think and act lead to us to the cliffs. Chaos.

To be continued…

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