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My Essay
Actually I love to talk with foreigner so I even joined English club with Rusty teacher during last semester. And I thought it was great opportunity not only to research and learn about the topic which is related with my future dream and major but also raise my English conversation skills. My future dream is to be a nurse so I must know lots of medical knowledge. I thought if I choose this topic, I could learn lots of medical knowledge in Goryeo. So I chose the topic ‘History of Goryeo Medical, disease and disease treatment.
I am the member of health club ‘Healing’ in school and our school had a academic seminar in just last week. Our club had to make something to display so we investigated about the infectious disease and home remedy of Goryeo. I was quite surprised because the content of home remedies were unreasonable. They contain the content like when you have an eye infection, wash your eyes with a child's urine or with water from your teeth or salt water and when you have a toothache, a latrine can be cured by attaching live eye maggots to your sick teeth.
Unlike I did the club, this time we studied about official history of medical and medical book of Goryeo. It was more professional activity than what I did in our club. I learned that Goryeo’s royal court had engaged in charitable medical activities through state institutions and Goryeo had a knowledge about Indian and Arabian medical. It was also possible to know what herbal medicines the people of Goryeo used.
We divided team into small group. And small group did research together. Our group researched about formation and change of Goryeo medicine together. We divided what we researched into the beginning, the middle and the last by the time and we translated them. My job was translating the middle part of Goryeo dynasty. I had hard time to translate 초조대장경(the first edition of Tripitaka Koreana ) in English. And the translator translate the text strange so I had to correct translated text more than twice. It was little bit difficult to translate but I thought it helped to improve my writing skills.
My goal of this camp was gaining lots of information about medical of Goryeo, preparing presentation writing our report well. I think I achieved my three goals! The camp was good experience for my future. I had a opportunity to do a group work with our school seniors, friends and foreigner teacher. The teacher was so kind and so were the seniors and friends. Through this summer camp I learned not only about medicine of Goryeo but also how to cooperate. It was so meaningful time and I want to participate in winter camp, too.
