We got up around the same time once again. My roomie wasn't feeling too hot after a night of drinking. I mostly chose to stay away from alcohol this weekend. Anna had already left to head home, so Jenna and I headed down to breakfast.
After breakfast, we lounged around for a while waiting for everyone to re-assemble. Most people were heading out, but a few of us were sticking around for a few hours. Jenna, Ray, Ariah, and Tricia headed to some art market. Jason and Diane rented some scooters to cruise around on. Jen, Lauren, Jeremy, Sarata, Allison, and I decided to take a spin in the lake on the swan boats. Jen, Lauren, and I shared one. It was really relaxing. Jen and Lauren switched off and on pedaling, but I stayed on the other pedal the whole time; it was good exercise!^^
My initial intentions were to stay until a 3:30PM bus, but I decided to head out at the same time as Lauren and Jeremy, so I would have bus buddies!! Jen shared a taxi with us. She asked the taxi driver in Korean to hurry a little bit. We spent a while saying goodbye to Mrs. Shim which made us somewhat later than we had expected to be to attempt to catch a bus. The taxi driver got a kick out of it and made us all laugh. He really did a good job getting us there on time. We had about 5 minutes to spare.
I slept most of the way home; I was still tired from last night. When we got back to Wonju, Lauren and I waited for an hour with Jeremy for his bus to come. We went to a really sketchy coffee shop to wait. We didn't mean to go to a sketchy coffee shop, it just turned out that way. We all bought bread at the conference to bring back as gifts for our schools and homestays. Well, a worker at the restaurant came over, took the bread out of the bag, opened the box, and started saying how delicious it was. Now, this was Lauren's bread, and she was in the bathroom. Seeing as how Jeremy and I didn't know how to say "Get away, Psycho lady" in a polite way, we kind of sat there helpless. We managed to explain that it was a gift for a friend and she scurried along on her way. We figured out once we got our coffee and tea, why exactly they were trying to push fruit juice on us. Our only guess is that their fruit juice, besides being the most expensive thing on the menu, has to be the best thing also. In other words...the coffee and tea were terrible!
When I got home, my host sister and host mom were outside. My host sister ran up to me and gave me a big hug, and she told me that she missed me! CUTE!! I hung out with the host family for a while before we went to get 순두부 (Sundubu - Tofu Soup). We picked up my host father from work before going, and he brought a bag out of 한약 (Hanyak - oriental medicine). I caught a cold, so I will soon be downing large quantities of oriental medicine. Dinner was really good!
I spent the rest of the night trying to catch up on my blog. It's a lot harder now that I can't hook my computer up. My laptop still works all right, but my host family has a laptop that connects to the internet. I don't want to chance that computer also getting a virus. I haven't quite figured out what I'm going to do about my wonderful new piece of technology other than ask my mom to send the software from the states. Yes, I realize I'm not the brightest person on the planet for leaving my software to my new computer back home-home, but that's what happened. Random tangent: I tend to say home about a place I'm living and home-home about the place I grew up. I guess it has been transferred to my writing.
There are things the ETAs have come to say thinking that it is proper English, when in fact, it really isn't. Konglish is an English word that when pronounced in Korean sounds similar to or the same as the English word or phrase. Also, there are sayings that Koreans think native English speakers say, but they are incorrect. For example: Take a rest. I knew perfectly well that "Take a rest" is not an actual phrase that we would use in the states; however, I find myself using the phrase and cannot figure out on my own that it does not sound right. I have had fellow ETAs make fun of me for it. Many of us find ourselves saying things that might sound a little strange, stopping to try to remember whether or not it would make sense in the states, and then realizing that we are incapable of such a task. If nothing else, it provides amusement for us!!^^
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