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hangbo kae (i am happy)
Sunday, 21 November 2004
kimchi day
Mood:  hungry
it's been an unexciting weekend, but it was still good, dany came over after school on saturday and stayed all weekend. we didnt go to the gymgibang like we planned, though.

on saturday we bought a ton of food before we went home, and we were laughing about how much food we always eat: dany, "wow lori we are pigs!! look at all this food!...no we are worse than pigs! maybe...bears!" me, "no not bears...more like...whales!! or i dont know, but SOMETHING! wow how can we eat so much!!!" **later that day during one of maybe 5 or 6 meals that day** dany-"awwww lori look at bean! she wants food! she's so hungry!" me" noo dany don't feed her any more we just fed her...she's a dog she's always hungry" *we both look up from our food...big big eyes...and start laughing hystarically.

on friday julian had to do is speech in korean, it only lasted like aminute, but kg spent 10 minutes afterward badgering people for questions. no one could come up with any but it was entertaining. when ever kim gabin (kim gabin=kg) teaches class she always asks dumb questions and *uh?? uh??* so after the students ask a question we go *uh? uh???* it sounds so ignorant to us, like "and if you don't study...? uh?? you might fall out of a 13 floor window...uh??? uh??" and then the science teacher always says "alasso??" which means understood?? but it's soo much, dany tallied it up one time, and in a 40 minute class he said "alasso??" 52 times!!

all the teachers have odd things that stand out about them. the home room teacher always yells but looks like he's about to crack up, laughing, and he's usually really nice, but i never know if hes about to smile or give us a lecture. the gym teacher and the art teacher are pretty normal. All of them get along with us great, except for the korean teacher. kinda creepy. and ji-eun said how he was BRAGGING about how scared he made us when he hit those kids....wtf?!?!

also on friday kg flipped out because emilio had his pant legs rolled up and she was soo upset about how hairy his legs are. most koreans don't have much body hair i guess, even guys don't have happy trails, it's weird! so she was calling emilio a monkey and was like "do not show your monkey legs!", but emilio is not easily insluted and just joked abut it like "but i thought you would like my monkey legs! they are delicious!" ga-bin told him he has to be an alien from another planet, haha well here technically he is an alien but if he's not from HER south korea, he must have originated in another planet. she is so self centered sometimes. ha.

today was kimchi day. yes korea has a whole day devoted to it. actually its different for each family. all the people in their family get together with lots and lots and lots of red peppers and cabage, and they spend the entire day making enough kimchi to last each household a year. they made a sickening amount and it smelled soo strong. fresh kimchi is good, but give it 10 minutes and it looses its appeal. my and dany didn't take part in the actual making of kimchi, because its really boring. instead we took a walk to emilio and chonghos house, in the next village over. they weren't home, and neither was E ji-eun. but fortunatly the walk wasn't an complete waste, we got much needed exercise, and a woman started talking to us as we passed, and invited us to her garden. we talked and she gave us fruit and introduced us to 2 of her relatives. i didn't understand much of what she was saying but dany seemed to catch on and made the right replys, but what i did catch was like 3 minutes later. danyhad to do all the answering for me and such. what the ?? i know dany doesnt ever study, it bores her to death, and she still is better at korean than me! i was realy proud of her but jealous too..i am the slowest at catching on to korean really! it is akward trying to speak korean...and people seem to understand when i talk in english, i just am stuck in a rut, and can't get past speaking in engish. maybe because i am the only one whose family always speaks to me in english. everyone else only knows korean.

my mom and dad say my host brother has much better english than ji-eun but i dont htink so. his understanding is better, but me and dany were here, and were trying to ask him how old he was, and easy stuff like that and he totaly ignored us. temporary deafness? we were waving our arms, hey hey over here! yah we are talking to yooouu..hello??? and we ask him really simple things but he just stares at us. oen time when dany was here was were my host dad asks "lori you talk to my son?" 'uhh i try but he doesnt talk back' "he is shy, but my son, hansome boy?" 'umm yahhh waht ever you say' and dany and i exchange looks and just laugh

emilio told me that before dany came here, her english was terrible. like bed? beeed? sleep in??? and now like oh i don't know but i think he is jealous, maybe. " i don't htink he english was so bad at first, but now she can say a lot more. myave she understood less of what i use to tell her thani though, but i dont know. now he english is much beter. "squinky?? sqwenky?? is that spanish? ohh you mean squishy!!" she still gets he and she mixedup a lot, but its normal. all the koreans do too. dany "oh i love she so much!!" ha its cute!

well it's late now, off to bed.

lilredd-headedgurrl rambles on at 10:23 PM WST

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