I have decided that I would not make a very good Korean. After being here, going on 4 months, I have noticed a few qualities that all Koreans seem to have.
For instance, to be Korean, you need to like Kimchi. Well I do not like Kimchi. I think it is actually pretty disgusting and could gag on the stuff! For those of you who have the pleasure of not knowing what it is, well I'm just going to have to ruin that for you:) Kimchi is fermented cabbage. The really 'good' Kimchi can be fermented for up to a year by being buried in the ground, but they do make it from stuff that has only been sitting out an hour. Then they lather the cabbage in this extremely spicy red sauce... very gross!
To be Korean you also need to like fish. Again, I do not like fish! Some fish is good, but not the stuff here. Josh and I had the very unpleasant experience of eating at a traditional Korean restaurant where we ordered some random soup off the menu. In the soup we found globs of the spicy red sauce I mentioned before, intestine rice rolls, octopus legs, and I believe eel. If you walk around Seoul you will also see huge fish tanks outside of restaurants just filled with slimy, icky, nasty, gross eels!
To be Korean, if you are a woman, you need to be able to walk, hike, run, and climb in 5 inch heels.... I can walk half an hour in 2 inch heels and be dying! Women here always wear heels. Even many of the older woman wear heels. When I go into town, mainly Seoul, I find that I don't really look at that much scenery, I look at all the women's shoes! Sometimes I just think they are really cute and sometimes I wonder how in the world they walk all day in them and sometimes I think that they are just plain ugly! Not being mean or anything, but I have seen girls in those shoes that are like high heeled boots but cut off at the ankle, wearing hot pink, frilly socks underneath while wearing a mini skirt!
Let's see, to be Korean you need to lack common sense... or at least American common sense. Really, lets go clean out the electric outlet in the floor while there is an inch of water covering the floor due to the roof caving in... oops, how did I get electrocuted... lets speed 100MPH down the road, going around corners, driving on the wrong side of the road at that, while there is 2 inches of water sitting on the road... lets not put babies and kids in car seats, much less seat belts... lets wear a huge coat on hot summer day just because it's cute... bringing me to my next point...
To be Korean you need to be more obsessed with fashion then you are with being practical. Not only do they wear 5 inch heels when they are going to hike a mountain or walk around the city all day, but they wear flowing mini skirts on windy days, wear jackets and sweaters in the middle of summer, and spend countless amounts of money on shoes!
What else... well, to be Korean you need to have black hair and age well, neither of which I do. Seriously, we thought the Korean teachers at our school were our age... not even close! They are in their late 30's and early 40's (some of them) and they look younger then I do half the time and I'm 22!
To be Korean you need to have an amazing ability to sleep anywhere and everywhere and at any time. I fail miserably at this one. Koreans are amazing when it comes to this. You can hop on any given subway car and find 4-5, more or less, Koreans just snoozing away. They sleep on the trains too when we go into town and when we were on our plane over here almost all the Koreans were sleeping. They also have an amazing ability to know when they are supposed to wake up. They never miss their subway stop and they never missed a meal on the plane... they some how just know... wish I could be like that! Heck it takes me at least 30 minutes to fall asleep at night and I'm in the comfort of my own bed!
To be Korean you need to be able to eat whatever you want and still look like you run 10 miles a day when you never actually do. I still have yet to see a Korean exercise, it seems to be extremely rare if you find one of them doing so. In America you find gyms around every corner and people jogging on the street... but not here! Amazingly enough America is the one that you will more likely find an overweight person then in Korea. They are just tiny and if I ate chips and candy and rice all day I would look like a blimp!
Alas I have decided that I would not make a very good Korean... pretty darn well impossible for me to become one anyway!
2 comments:
Ha! They are probably so fit because it is a lot of work to walk around in shoes like that all day!! :)
Seriously, though, Asian people are just tiny...it has nothing to do with what they eat or don't eat, they are just small people.
Thank the Lord you're not Korean, otherwise you'd be very short smell like fish and cabbage, sleep like Tia :) ( just kidding Tia) and have major feet problems when your older.
Try not so hard to focus on what you don't like about Korea. But try to put your focus on God. Next time you're out shopping ,walking around, let your eyes gaze above their heads (not down) . Let your eyes look straight up, you'll be able to think more clearly.Everytime we look down our minds go into a state of confusion and we try to figure things out that just darn hurt the brain. Thank the Lord for who you are, what you have. Ask Him to let you see the Koreans through His eyes and ask Him what He wants you to learn or pray for his people. For WE are ALL HIS and there is a purpose for everything.
I think you should start writing your book and work on your next baby blanket, it makes time fly faster while over there:) :) :) :) :)
Love. Mom
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