and he said::::take my hand...live while you can
Mood:  lazy
so much has happened since i last wrote. it's been a pretty busy few days!

On monday my family informed me they were going to taejon and i was not coming. fine with me. So they arranged for me to go to roses house for the night. all day i pretty much spent the day sending e-mails. i feel so lazy!! i finally got around to checking tracys blog. she got to bring friends to the airport with her! thats unfair!! i was told nooo, its a family thing. what bs! haha. i'v been studying korean a lot still, everytime i learn a new word they're soo impressed! i love it. they laugh at my korean a lot too. for the longest time i didnt know there was a difference in saying hello and good bye. but apparently there is, and i was always telling people hello when they left. oops. anyways, rose lives with ri, her host sister. i met her on the trip around korea. when they came to pick me up they talked for a long time.

sitting on the floor is only fun once in a while. my ankles dont like it very much. i mainly talked to rose cuz everyone else was speaking in korean. after a while it just starts to sound like jibberish. like back ground noise. wow i have been so deprived of talking to people in english

ri and rose don't live in seocheon they live in a close by town called beun (?) its a lot smaller than seocheon but its nice. they live in a house, not an apartment like ji-eun. ji-euns family is pretty well off money wise. but Ri's home is so much more homey and more laid back. her mom is a piano teacher, rose warned me, 8 in the morning i would surely be woken up by the kids poor attempts at learning piano. lol they have a piano parlor, it has like 4 or 5 tiny rooms with no door, with just a piano and a seat in each, thats really all that will fit. i'v seen that before at the place where ji-eun takes flute lessons. I met Roses dog, apple. i forget the word for apple in korean. apple, its whats for dinner! I also met Ri's brother ba.ng (pronounced BONG) that is so kick ass. His friend was there, min-young, who has claimed rose as his girlfriend. its so cute! (quiyopta!) lol minyoung only stayed for supper then left.

me and rose talked for the longest time! we talked about everything... EVERYTHING! just speaking in english to someone was such a relief, she showed me her art work, I AM SO AMAZED its incredible...i want to put some of it on my yahoo photo page. makes me wish i were creative. she is someone i can really relate to, too. there are things that have happened to her that happened to me and i felt like i could tell her my deepest darkest secrets! she reminds me A LOT of maxine, the things she says, i'd swear her and max are related. shes gotta get in touch with max some time. she has this saying "rose just is" and that was like, so maxine-ish! "max just... is!" and she's got me saying "oh you're a cute one!" in that old lady kinda voice. its really catchy, try it. :) after we were done confessing everything we had to go to the store for chocolate. yes a girl after my own heart! oh i miss chocolate, i should have brought my stash with me to her house, she would have appreciated that. lol. it was late when we went to the store, Ri was iffy, she doesnt like walking in the dark. sEriously, girls here are not sure of them selves at all. me and rose assured her though, we're beastly women :D the store was really close too. thats so awesome, i'v never lived anywheres close enough to a store that i can walk to! we bought 1 of every kind of chocolate they had. thas only about 8. the jenne chocolate was the best. i'll stock up on that when i run out of hersheys.

roses host family is so great, i think i'll be there a lot more often! bong has really good english so we talked to him about his trip and everything. his mom was right in the room, but she doesn't understand much english, nothing more than the basics, so we were free to say anything we wanted, it was nice. their host mom made snacks, then at around 11 at night, totally out of the bue, asks if we wanna go to the beach. hell yah. it was like 20 minutes away, maybe more. it was like old orchard beach, with the town right next to the water and everything. we went down on the beach and me and rose went wading. first time i had been in the water since i had gotten to korea. the water is a lot warmer than in maine. even at 11 AT night. they bought us fireworks and we got to light them off on the beach. koreans love fire works. people were lighting them off all around the beach, it was a sight. me and rose collected some shells and sand, so we can say "we got this sand IN SOUTH KOREA" all sophisticated like. 8)

the next morning i slept until 10:30! my fam usually wakes me up at 8:30 so that was pretty cool. then roses host mom made me FRENCH TOAST! mmmmm! me rose and ri all headed to the beach. on the way there they gave me my korean name! it's che min. :) i feel so special! rose ahs a korean name and its a lot like mine. we just can't escape it!

when i got there ji-eun had brought my dig. camera i ordered a few days ago. its really nice, i was so excited to use it. doesnt hold much though, stil needs a memory card.

the weather was so hot and sticky, i couldnt wait to jump in the water. i put sunblock on, but it didnt do too much good, i got a sunburn anyways. but it isnt too bad. it was nice and calming at first, just floating around. (we were in the yellow sea...doesnt sound that apealing. ) then everyone started a war over tubes, and it got prety rough. me and rose got the worst of it cuz people could just pick us up and dunk us really easy. me and rose started a mud war too. my new white shirt got so covered! it was everyone against me at one point, (rose ditched me toget some soju with emilio.) thats a rugged sport. then rose went and changed in the guys bathroom! it was all in korean so how were we suppose to know!? when we left i left my damn sunblock there. that was 10$ sunblock, i'm mad about that.

me and rose got married to the twins, at the chapel across from the bus stop. i wish i had pictures!! julian was the minister. rose married yeil and i married yeamin. haha they're so fun. crazy christian boys! no worries back home though, ;)

we took the bus back to seocheon for some pizza! yumm! i ididnt have a clean shirt (mine got completely covered in the mud war) and i felt really akward in just a bikini top (since most girls dont even wear shirts as skimpy as a tank top.) emilio lent me his shirt, since he had 2. it was really big on me, i felt like a toddler again :) the pizza was so good. its the pizza place right down the road from my apartment. then me and emilio got into a huge waterfight, made me miss waterfights with jack, lol! :) good times.

next door to the pizza place is a karaoke place. i'm really amazed at how common those are. it had a good selection of music, and me and rose sang to 2 :) you can just imagine how that sounded! :O haha but it was fun though. we stayed for about 2 hours. girls and guys sang! everyone was planning on going back tonight, but i guess things fell through.

today when we went to bring ji-eun to spanish lessons i convinced oma (host mom) to stop at the guitar place i had seen a few days ago. i selected a black guitar and they accepted my cash card, yay!! and the man their tuned it for me. its a family business, and we had some troubles with the language barrier, so they called their daughter over, who can speak english really well. shes only in elementary too! it was 180,000 won, about 160$ its a cort (?)electric guitar. but its a pretty nice guitar, i like it :) and oma got into a long conversation with the family which ended up in the girl talking me out for ice cream. i love it. then we sat down and had a long conversation. the girl is palnning on going to the us some time to study english. they asked me all about where i live and if i needed to call home i could use their phone cuz its free, which is soo awesome since i just bought an international fone card and they're extremely expensive. like 13$ for an hour! the whole family was really nice, and their daughter is going to come visit some time in seocheon!

we went back to emart today to get my film, cuz they only gave me 5 pictures from the last time and that really pissed me off so i made them reprint them, and i got them back today to find that there we're any that were so bad they had to be deleted. so that guy is full of shit and i wont take my film there ever again!!

finally i am done, its about 9:45 i'm gonna play some guitar before bed. school tomorrow!!! i'm excited. i even get to wear a lil uniform :) i have to get up at 7 in the morning though. in the us i use to get up at 6, so HAH!! :)

-lori-