I laid in bed for a good deal of today. Lauren and I were going to get up to meet Jeremy for coffee (he was swinging through Wonju on his way to Gyeongi-do), but we decided the night before that we needed to sleep in. Also, it is about a $6 taxi ride just to get anywhere near the bus station.
My host family headed out to Seoul around 3:50PM...and LITERALLY, folks, it took 4 hours to get to a destination that was only supposed to take 1 and 1/2 hours had there been no traffic!
When we finally got there, the five starved family members sat down at my host mom's sister's new apartment. We went to a house warming party that was just family. I love hanging out with my host mom's family!! They're so much fun and laid back; kind of like my mom's side of the family back home. I've noticed a lot of similarities between my host family and my family back home; sometimes just strange similarities. Like the fact that my host mom really likes caramel and tootsie rolls like my mom in the states, or that my host dad really likes to be out in the sun like my dad in the states while my host mom prefers to stay out of the sun like my mom in the states. My host mom only has sisters and no brothers like my mom in the states.
I played ping pong in a slighty creepy ping pong room in the parking garage with Youngjin, my host sis, and my host bro for a bit. When we got back, my host mom went out to meet a friend. She left at 12:00AM and came back at 3:30AM. I stayed up talking to Nahi, her husband, and my host father until 2:30AM. We got into a slight political debate, or rather I caused a slight one between my host father, Nahi, and Nahi's husband. LOL! I manage to do that a lot somehow; I didn't mean to. I simply talked about one of my friends from yesterday's meeting supporting Mr. Moon. I then learned that my host father and Nahi hold opposing views. I quickly stepped out of that one!
I couldn't stay up any longer after 2:30AM. Apparently my host father, my 10 year old host sister, my 12 year old host brother, and Nahi's husband all stayed up until my host mom got back.
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