#edae

Testing some inking and things.

So much to learn. x.x

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They stood still for a second. Say Cheese!

After some years. Three for the price of one. Their little army.

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( 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~