Much has happened since I last wrote and just in the past month. Having received funding from my alma mater Berkeley to take gayageum lessons in Korea for the academic year, I moved out of New York City after four years and am now in Seoul. Before I left from California nearly a month ago, I visited my teacher in her downtown Los Angeles apartment for the last time and she passed down one of her gayageums to me.
The lessons with 연희 언니 are largely focused on technique, which is a good complement to the old school lessons I had from 할머니. I'm learning a lot and I realized that I've been calling the double flicking technique 쌍튀김 (튀김 means fried food so twin fried food?) instead of 쌍튕김.
So much has happened. After an unbelievable tragedy last month, my dearest teacher, my loving 할머니, also passed away this week. I kind of knew that I wouldn't see her again on this earth but I didn't know she would go so soon.
I miss her so much. I'm glad I got to see her and leave her tidy place with these words:
푹 쉬세요 할머니! 다음에 뵈요~
The lessons with 연희 언니 are largely focused on technique, which is a good complement to the old school lessons I had from 할머니. I'm learning a lot and I realized that I've been calling the double flicking technique 쌍튀김 (튀김 means fried food so twin fried food?) instead of 쌍튕김.
So much has happened. After an unbelievable tragedy last month, my dearest teacher, my loving 할머니, also passed away this week. I kind of knew that I wouldn't see her again on this earth but I didn't know she would go so soon.
I miss her so much. I'm glad I got to see her and leave her tidy place with these words:
푹 쉬세요 할머니! 다음에 뵈요~