June 30, 2008

Hey white girl!

This blog might ramble a little bit, so bear with.... it might be worth it though, so who knows.

Ok, imagine this... every morning you wake up, and before you walk out the door you put on this hat. And on this hat is a giant, three foot tall, wobbly dildo. Yes, that's right, a dildo. So you put on your dildo hat and go about your business. This is completely normal to YOU, it's who you are, you are dildo hat wearer. So out into the street you walk, and imagine the reaction you would get. People stop, they stare, the point, and they say something "dildo hat wearer!" Yea, so you get the picture? Welcome to my life, only instead of wearing a dildo on my head, I'm white. That's it. I put on my clothes every morning, walk out the door, and go about my business. And people stop. People stare. People point and say "waeguk" which I've figured out is some sort of rude word for foreigner. Welcome to my life.

On another note, I've taken up nocturnal strolling of the streets. Before you call my mom and freak out, South Korea is one of the safest places to be doing this, so no worries. Everything here is rockin late at night. The markets, stores, and street vendors are all open and doing business until about midnight or at least 11. So after work I come home, change my shoes, strap on my headphones, and head out for about an hour and walk to this pet store about a mile away. This pet store has puppies, and not only puppies, PUREBRED puppies. And they're cheap, like $150 cheap. I like doing this because after petting tiny animals like that, I'm feeling pretty happy. After my puppy petting is finished, I head home for the night, get some writing done, and head to bed. It's nice at night, the streets are all lit up, people are out and about and shopping, and everything just seems ALIVE. And to make it even more entertaining I listen to Johnny Cash while walking. There's somthing really funny to me about walking in the middle of a completely foreign country listening to "Get Rhythm".

School is completely awesome. These kids crack me up, they're the cutest little things and all day long I want to just pick them up and squish their little faces together. They can't really pronounce my name so it comes out more like Miss Eraser than Miss Raetzer. So I tried Miss Cartwright and that came out even worse, so Miss Eraser it is. I teach 6 classes a day, from really small kids to some in the 4th grade. I have one class that's all boys and two girls, and I feel so bad for these two girls. It's only my 3rd day with these boys and I already want to bring duct tape and just tape them to their desks. I think they're trying to see how far they can push me so today I look over the rim of my glasses and say "You. No goodbye" which to them is detention, and I shut them right up.

And such is life in a Monday night..... stay tuned

1 comment:

  1. Where can I get a hat like that??! Hehe.

    I'm glad you're having fun there and that things are going well. Those night walks seem like a lot of fun!

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