So today is officially Thanksgiving back home and I can't wait to take my lunch break so I can go home and call my family. Here in Korea, us foreigners had a celebration yesterday. The town was kinda far away so I wasn't planning on going. I have a class that starts at 8 a.m. But as usual I couldn't let myself miss out on the excitement. So when I got the call at 9:15 pm asking if I was going, I had quickly stop my movie, put away the kimchi dinner I was having, change out of my pj's and get to the bus station before 9:50, which is when the bus left. I don't know why I feel compelled to do such things.
The trip to Changwon (an hour away) was an event in itself. We had to haggle down the 60.00 cost of a taxi to 30.00....in a language we don't speak, because it's faster than the bus, but we managed to do it. Had to stall the taxi driver to wait for a friend who was late. We actually ended up having our taxi try to meet up with her taxi which was a mess because none of us could communicate clearly with the drivers and we only "sorta" knew how to get to the place we wanted to meet at. I don't know what it is but all of my trips seem to start off the same messy way.
I should mention that the only reason we were able to take the trip for half the price was because another girl was headed for a town going our way so we basically split the cost. Needless to say while all of this was going on she was getting more and more frustrated. At one point she and her little Ralph Lauren dressed dog were about to hop out of the taxi all together. My friend is like "We can't let her get out, our price'll go up". LOL.
Eventually we all were in the taxi headed to Changwon. The driver was so irritated he kept telling us SHHH!! He was pointing (and I know he was cussin in Korean). It was terrible. Once we actually got to the guys house everybody left because it was late and they had work. Nonetheless we ate turkey and sweet potato pie, watched some stand up and had a good time.
After the little celebration we had to figure out how to get back home since the bus station had apparently closed....back to the taxi's....same story.
I got home close to 3 a.m. went to bed and now am back at work. On sunday we will have a more relaxed thanksgiving here in Jinju. I hesitate to say that.
I had to write about Thanksgiving since its the first major holiday since I've been away. I hope everyone had a wonderful Turkey day and had many reasons to give thanks.
The trip to Changwon (an hour away) was an event in itself. We had to haggle down the 60.00 cost of a taxi to 30.00....in a language we don't speak, because it's faster than the bus, but we managed to do it. Had to stall the taxi driver to wait for a friend who was late. We actually ended up having our taxi try to meet up with her taxi which was a mess because none of us could communicate clearly with the drivers and we only "sorta" knew how to get to the place we wanted to meet at. I don't know what it is but all of my trips seem to start off the same messy way.
I should mention that the only reason we were able to take the trip for half the price was because another girl was headed for a town going our way so we basically split the cost. Needless to say while all of this was going on she was getting more and more frustrated. At one point she and her little Ralph Lauren dressed dog were about to hop out of the taxi all together. My friend is like "We can't let her get out, our price'll go up". LOL.
Eventually we all were in the taxi headed to Changwon. The driver was so irritated he kept telling us SHHH!! He was pointing (and I know he was cussin in Korean). It was terrible. Once we actually got to the guys house everybody left because it was late and they had work. Nonetheless we ate turkey and sweet potato pie, watched some stand up and had a good time.
After the little celebration we had to figure out how to get back home since the bus station had apparently closed....back to the taxi's....same story.
I got home close to 3 a.m. went to bed and now am back at work. On sunday we will have a more relaxed thanksgiving here in Jinju. I hesitate to say that.
I had to write about Thanksgiving since its the first major holiday since I've been away. I hope everyone had a wonderful Turkey day and had many reasons to give thanks.
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