We went to Jeju for vacation for four days. It was three foreigners (me, Meg,
Robby) and 10 Koreans (Our boss May, her husband and his two nephews and one
niece, May’s sister Jasmine and her three kids, and May’s mom.) We took a ferry to Jeju and rented what
I called “the party van.” It was a
big bus that more than comfortably fit all thirteen of us.
I’ve spent some time with Jasmine’s three kids, as they are
E-World students, but it was my first time meeting May’s husband’s nephews and
niece. Naturally, they were
afraid of Meg, Robby and I because we’re foreigners. We got to our pension and settled in. We had two pensions and the foreigners
were bunking with May’s husband’s niece and nephews. Like I said, they were afraid of us. Unbeknownst to me the youngest, 우 현 hid himself in the closet to
escape. I went to get a blanket
and pillow out of the closet and when I opened the door 우 현 started
screaming and I started screaming and we both just screamed at each other because
he didn’t expect anyone to open the closet and I didn’t know anyone was in
there. It was so funny. That kid turned into my bff for the
trip.
Later on in the trip
we had a BBQ and we were talking about how our adult student Masashi is leaving
back to Japan soon (he was in Korea working for the Expo which ends next
weekend.) Last week he gave all
the teachers gifts. We opened them
and no one knew what they were so we asked Masashi. He didn’t know either.
Lydia guessed it was a skirt, Robby guessed a table cloth, May guessed a
scarf. We’re having a goodbye
party for Masashi on Friday and we decided we’re going to wear his mysterious
gifts as capes to his goodbye party.
CANNOT WAIT. It’s going to
be hilarious. We just decided,
‘”Oh, they’re capes. Clearly
capes.”
Later on in the trip
Andrew, Jasmine’s son, found some crab/slug-like creatures at the beach. He took them into the car and we were
driving for a couple of hours when Robby asked ‘Andrew, are your friends ok?” “Not ok.” He responded.
“Die. No in water and
die.” Later on we’re
walking through E-Mart getting food for later when Andrew comes running up to
me “KATIE!!! NOT DIE!!! ALIVE!!!!!!!!” They then lived in the fresh sink water over night before eventually being discarded.
My favorite part of
the trip was the boat ride back when Robby, Meg and I were on the deck with 우 현 and Andrew and we were just singing "I'm so curious yeeaaahhh - over and over) and dancing and pretend fighting (robot fighting - robot bitch slap) for
like two hours. Andrew is the most
ridiculous person I’ve ever met in my entire life. Sometimes he'll do this gangster move and I'll chime in like - "you doin' ho activities, with ho tendencies, hoes are your friends and hoes are your enemies." Good thing he can't understand English. Absolutely impossible to explain or describe this kid in words
but we just annoyed everyone else on deck with our preposterousness. We also invented “everybody Andrew’in.” Ask me about this please, it must be demonstrated.
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