Best Friends

It’s strange to say but in all my 5 years in Drexel University, I would have to say I made only 2 best friends. For some people, they would say that I probably made more, but I think I have many “good” friends. I use “best” and “good” to differentiate/SEGREGATE (jk jk) between my friends.

So what does “best friend” mean to me? To me, a best friend is someone that likes to come over whenever just to hangout. They are someone I can be myself and not feel like I’m being studied or analyzed or judged. They are someone I can continuously make fun of, and they would enjoy it. They would have to “genuinely” laugh at all my dumb jokes and make me “genuinely” laugh as well. My best friend and I both have to acknowledge that we are “best” friends.

A “good” friend, to me, means that they are someone that likes to hang out whenever they want to hang out to do one specific thing. For example, I have few good friends that love to play tennis. So when they get bored, they usually call me up just to play tennis. We like to go out and eat but we do not have many common interests, so there is not much to talk about and we usually have to force a conversation.

Anyways~

With my very brief description about what it means to be my “good” friend to my “best” friend, let me introduce you to my two best friends that I made in my sophomore year in college. They both came to Upenn for the English-second-language one-year program. (I meet them both at the same time, so I’ll introduce them to you according to age)


First is Jakyoung Moon. She is 24 like me and she is the ditsy one. Her personality is somewhat like Christine Ho’s. Currently, she is a nursing major in Korea and soon she’ll be in Chicago for 6 months for some nursing program.












Next is Min Hee. Usually Koreans have 3 characters for their names, but rarely there are someone with only 2 characters or even 4. Min Hee is one of them. She is the stubborn and the clumsy one. She first came to Upenn to improve her English, but then she switched her original major, communications, to art. She transferred to an art school in Philadelphia. But during this time, I went to Georgia for 6months and this meant that Minhee had no one else to play with. So she decided to transfer back to korea for communications. She loves baseball and at first, she chose communication to be one of the sports broadcasters for baseball. Now, she is trained to translate both English and Korean for multilingual conferences. Currently, she is a flight attendant but now she wants to become an anchorwoman for a news station.



Here's all of us together: Me (top left), Min Hee (top right), Jakyoung (bottom left), Pastor James (bottom middle), and Ruiqi (bottom right). This was my goodbye dinner for me because I was going to be working in Athens, Georgia for a while.

I also have few friends who I consider almost “best” friends but not quite yet, so I’ll categorize them as “good good” friends.

They are Elias Quan, Justine Wan, Ryan Lee, Brian Pyles, and Andrew Wesolowski. There are many friends in GCC who are about to enter into this category.