Today our Control group figured out that all of our 6 weeks work was thrown to the trash. Okay, I will try not to sound so dramatic. In reality, all of the time working here has been very educational for the future, but as for our project and our MATLAB program, not so much. I thought I understood my part of the program well-- LQR and Kalman Filters. Unfortunately, I didn't keep up with Tiara or Anthony's MATLAB changes. Anthony had a problem, since he was changing the units around on simulink and he thinks the error is coming from my part. Ughh so now I have to check my stuff.
Besides that it's been good. I got the grad students' pictures. Here is one where Alexander gave his first English lecture. He was so nervous (because rumors were passed around the lab that we were very smart students before we came) that after the lecture and the questions he announced "let's take a break" and ran off out of the classroom. Another grad student, after laughing for a few minutes, got up and told us "he went to go cry outside," which made us laugh even more. Alexander is actually one of my favorite grad students, after BoMi and JeongSu.
Today I also went out to daily mass. I really wish I knew Korean. The priest that presided the mass was very fun during his homily, and I missed out on the jokes because of the language barrier. Well, I will try my best to learn as much Korean as possible while I am here. BoMi was nice enough to find a friend of a friend who took Korean , so she borrowed her Korean-English book. Let's just say that I will be flipping through the pages throughout the weekend while at our trip to GyongJu (or however I spelled it before).
Last thing before I stop writing: Italy and France both ended last in their bracket and are therefore not advancing in the World Cup! Wow, very exciting considering that all of the South American teams so far are letting the world know that they are not going home without a fight. Now is the time to be proud to be from South America, despite Peru's qualification to the World Cup. There is much that awaits me now. This world cup is turning out more interesting than ever. First off, poor old South Africa got kicked out even though they are the host. Second, most of the European teams are putting on a poor show for us watchers. I mean, who's in? England, Germany, hopefully Spain, definitely Portugal, and maybe Netherlands (hopefully Denmark wins the next game so Annika's family can be happy for a little bit longer).
Well anyways, here are some pictures for you to enjoy. The last picture I just posted is JeongSu watching the video of Girls Generation whenever the grad students showed us what was popular in Korea. Now that you know who danced for us from my old post, I think I understand this picture much better. Obviously JeongSu was thinking "hehe these girls can't dance as good as I can. Hopefully the REU students will ask me to dance. I will surely shake my butt better than Girls Generation." Oh JeongSu...
These two pictures are when I went to ask DD about a circuit question. He had a hard time with it, but in the end we got it to work. :)
This is a picture that BoMi took of me trying to play JeongSu's instrument. Well, I almost got the scales down, but I couldn't play anything.
Annika is a funny roommate. She just said "I love sleeping. These sheets feel like silk." And she tells me to stop talking to her so she can go to sleep. She makes me laugh. Oh little Annika.
Okay, well I need to wake up early tomorrow.
-Allie R.
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