I have only been in Korea for more than 2 months to work on my Master's at Soongsil University. The Autumn is coming, and this is the occasion I can see the yellow of maple leaf. Like a child is waiting for the birthday gift, I am really excited about the first Fall in Korea.
There is a small mountain behind our university. We often climb on the top of it to see a part of Han River. There are many maple trees, pine trees and flowers in such a mountain. With fresh air and a gorgeous view, I feel relax after stressful weeks. However, I am waiting for something that I have not seen before. It's yellow leaf tree.
Last month, someone told us there were many yellow trees on the mountain. Therefore, all of us climbed on the mountain to find one. It wasted us two hours to go around the mountain, but we didn't find any yellow tree. On the other hand, we were lucky to see a maple tree with half of red leaves. In spite of the red leaves not the yellow, but I think is look so beautiful.
One week later, the news notified that the leaves are about to be yellow. We decided to go around Seoul to find such tree. A trip was started in an early weekend morning of the Fall. More than ten people catch the train to the center. We visited many places like Gyeongbokgung Palace, Changdeokgung palace and NamSan tower to find trees with yellow leaves. It ‘s really hard to find such trees in early fall.
The sun was shining with the yellow light went through leaves that made everything seem to be gorgeous. This long journey made all of us so tired. Everybody sat on the way to the top of NamSan tower and take a break. At this time, I thought that I could not see that trees with yellow leaves. It was because I was busy at two weeks later. Therefore, I named for these leaves as golden leaves.
Previously week, when every tree in my school was turn to red and yellow, we all made a decision to find the golden leaves again. On Saturday, we came to one of the oldest sister in our lab ‘s house to prepare for a trip to Nami Island. We prepared food together and make a plan for the longest trip we hadn’t done before in Korea.
Getting up early in the morning to get one of the first train, it took us more than three hours to Nami. By cause of Sunday, many people visited this place. I didn’t like some places with crowded people too much. It made us uncomfortable. There were several Vietnamese who people visited Nami the same time with me. Maybe, they were finding the golden leaves like us.
We overcame to a river and then took off on the island. My eyes were full of the yellow trees. We went inside and deeper, yellow trees are arranged in two lines like the film “Sonata Winter”. After taking a lot of pictures, we sat near the river and had lunch. The scene was beautiful with cool weather, some birds flew on the tree and sang and golden trees around us. Every tired things stayed in my mind seem to fly away.
All in all, Korea is one of the best places to live, in my opinion. I love Korea. I love the golden trees with cool weather of the Autumn of Korea. By the way, it takes me more than 2 months to wait for the leaves turning yellow. However, I don’t regret to waste time. That becomes one of my best my experiment memorable.
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