You, Daniel Dong Hyun Shin, need to be more assertive. I'm not suggesting that you go all westerner on these Koreans and start demanding shit. I don't want you to constantly complain about cultural shit that you should have realized would be a small problem for you when you moved to a different country with a different culture from the one you grew up in. You don't do that because you've adjusted pretty well and I'm proud of you! Of course, this adjustment was made easier by the fact that you are Korean in the sense that you were raised by Korean people, in a Korean household.

No no Daniel, I'm suggesting that when you have a good idea, go with it! The other day, someone asked you to prepare an English festival booth for little elementary school children. With pictures! Lots of pictures! And you said, "animals." Animals! That's simple and everybody fucking LOVES animals! Some people love animals in wrong ways, but that's not the point. Animals are easy to learn about and you can make that booth fun by doing stupid shit like act like a gorilla and suddenly YOU'RE A GREAT TEACHER!

Don't let the other teachers get you down when they say that might be too 'hard' because who the fuck can't learn another word for 'bear' besides newborn infants?!?

And don't let it get to you when they say your other idea, talking about national monuments, is wayyyyyy too hard, because IT IS! YOU DUMB FUCK! How're you going to get kids understand how the Statue of Liberty is a false symbol of hope and freedom, whose only purpose is to give a metaphorical middle finger to incoming immigrants who will be oppressed to no end!?!?! You can't!

And when the same teachers decide to do a new idea for the English booth YOU are in charge in for a whole day, don't get discouraged. Just try to do a good job working on this new idea for the booth, which is..........an ANIMAL PICTURE BOOTH?!?!?

Ok, so I know that's the first idea you pitched, which was rejected, but is now somehow magically a NEW IDEA made up by this teacher who is helping you, but this whole clusterfuck is partly your fault because you weren't assertive enough! Seriously, it was a great idea! So great, that when hearing it, someone most of had an aneurism, which made them forget about that idea consciously but it was still IN THEIR HEAD somewhere. And one day while they were looking through your collection of national monument pictures you collected from google, they must have said "oh fuck, those children are gonna shit themselves like a bunch of chimpanzees trying to figure this out," when suddenly, ANIMALS pops into their head. And they go "WOW, that's a pretty good fuck idea!." And you have to hear someone else pitch your same idea all over again!

Daniel, be more assertive! Show more courage! Push it to the limit! And do your best to finish this project and make it a good show! Also, get some candy for these kids.