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The empty St James Church in St Andrews was the place I loved the most while staying in the town. Still whenever I go to St Andrews, I visit the church. Catholic church is for me a place that I can always turn to when I feel exhausted with pain. I have joined some bible studies and attended some chapels at Protestant churches since I came to Scotland, the land of Presbyterian ..

Yesterday I went to St Andrews. I prayed in the Catholic church as I used to do when I lived there. In the empty church, the sun was silently coming through the stained glass. Someone had lit a candle in front of the St Mary statue. I like the warmth of the lit candles in the church. Yesterday also I could feel the warmth of the candle light. There is another small entrance do..

A deserted place ... is one of the things that I quite often come across in the UK. This is in stark contrast to Seoul, where so many people live, thus there being not many places that are deserted. When I was little, there used to be some places that were abandoned around my home. I remember I would play with other kids in such areas. But I spent more time wandering alone in ..

The window of my room faces the cemetery next to my accommodation building. I'm satisfied with the scene through my window, since it shows green grass not gray bricks of another building. But even if scenes through windows were boring or miserable, it wouldn't matter. Because I still like the wind blowing in through windows. In some sense, the thing I really like is not a wind..

Humans seem rational for a majority of their life time. But, everyone knows that we are in fact not that rational and knows that many of our decisions were not very reasonable. One of the most strikingly visible examples is our self-destructive orientation. While we tend to behave in a very self-centred way to the extent to frustrate others, It is also true that we tend to har..

I like cats although it has not been so long. It may have been from the time when I had begun living with Juni. She was my sole (if not soul) mate who greeted me in my home when I came home from school, tired with daily work. She would run around in my home while I ate dinner alone. Those evenings I spent with her is now a precious part of my memories. Now I'm staying in an acc..

Last August was the last month I stayed in St Andrews. I think one of the most attractive things of St Andrews was that it was a university town located along the beach. People say that the combination of the two, university and the beach, is very rare even in the UK. I remember one of the students saying that one of the reasons why he'd chosen the university was he liked seei..

I like sunset. From a moment, I have had a habit of going outside at a time of sunset. Nowadays, the day is really long, so even after I eat dinner there is plenty of time to enjoy the sun. St Andrews in summer is crowded with tourists, so I tend to walk much further beyond the town. There are beaches (which they call the East or West Sands), golf courses, bushes, grass hills ..

I watched a Japanese animation film titled 'Anthem of the Heart'. The main character is a high school girl who lost her voice when she was little, after she heard from her mother and father, who divorced after the latter's infidelity, that she was a chatterbox that became the cause for their divorce. She kept thinking that her words hurt people and became unable to speak. But ..

... my room in Deans Court. Deans Court is a small university dormitory house (a hall of residence) in St Andrews. There is even an article in Wikipedia that introduces this 800 years old building. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deans_Court) It accommodates about 50 postgraduates, and we eat meals together in the dining hall. I moved here last September, so it is now more than..