Hey! Welcome back to my blog. If you did not read my previous blog post, I highly recommend reading it first before this one. However, a quick one sentence summary from my last post is that I tested positive for coronavirus the week before midterm week. 
In South Korea, all midterms take place in one week. I actually like this concept, because at USC, midterms are all over the place and depend on the professor. For example, I would have one midterm every week. I did not like that because it meant I had to keep studying all the time as I never had one week to just relax. In South Korea, week 8 is typically known as the midterm examination period. Every class will have their midterm exam during this week. I actually only had two midterms which was really great. My other classes do not have a midterm, but rather a group paper that is due the following week.
It was really great that I did not have many midterms, but it was still difficult for me to study since I had really bad covid symptoms. Rather than catching up on lectures and reviewing my notes, I spent most of the week before midterms just sleeping and trying to recover. As a result, I felt extremely unprepared going into my exams. I was pretty nervous I would not do well. Luckily, I started to get better and not have symptoms a day before my exams. My midterms actually went pretty well despite the unexpected difficulties I had to face. I think I did pretty well, so I am going to hope for the best!
After 7 days of testing positive, my RA told me that I am allowed to be free from my quarantine period and return to my original room. I still had slight symptoms such as mild coughing and a runny nose, so I asked if I could stay in the quarantine for a few more days. However, my request was turned down so I thought that was a bit strange…
Overall, midterm week went alright. The whole week was just mainly just focusing on studying and recovering so not much interesting that happened during this week. 
I started to make a full recovery towards the end of the week, so I went to celebrate with my friends at night.
We went to Apgujeong Rodeo at a really famous KBBQ restaurant where celebrities go! It is really interesting because they had a whole wall dedicated to the celebrities signature. A lot of people were here as well, so we ended up waiting two hours to get seated. I think the long wait was worth it though because the pork belly meat was extremely delicious! It was a great way to end the night for my first day being able to go out of my quarantine.
My friends and I were full but we also wanted to try a famous Chinese restaurant nearby, so we ended going for a round two of dinner!
Next week, I will be going to Jeju island so I am super excited! This will be my first time going out of Seoul too! I cannot wait to update you guys with my Jeju trip in my next blog