What the HELL?!? It was 8am and there I was…wide awake. (FYI: If left to my own devices, I hardly ever crawl out of bed before noon.) I hadn’t even set an alarm or anything. I don’t know if I woke up because both my cousins and my uncle leave the house around that time or what. *seriously disoriented* Emo left for work closer to 930am after eating breakfast with the rest of us but she came back around noon to take us to her friend’s restaurant for lunch.
It had a limited menu, I think there was about six dishes all together. But it was only 3,000 won (about $3) per dish ALL YOU CAN EAT. Craziness. I got to have naeng-myun though! Yummy!! Everyone kept telling me to eat more and get my money’s worth. Um…no. To begin with, the bowl of naeng-myun was humongous! And besides that, I was full. I think I got my money’s worth. It’s really not fun for me to eat so much I feel like I’m going to throw up. Maybe I’ll take that up as my hobby next year.
After lunch, I decided I wanted to go to my Sook Mo’s shoe shop. (Korean Lesson #2 – If you recall the previous lesson, Emo = aunt, my mother’s sister. Well, Sook Mo also means aunt but it means my mother’s brother’s wife. It’s seems super confusing but Korean people are really into identifying exactly how each person is related. So the purpose of this confusion is actually clarity.) Anyway, everyone put their heads together to devise a plan to get me to the subway station. Really, people. All you need to do it point the way. I have lived here before and I do know how to use the subway!
Completely disregarding my assertions of independence, we set off on a convoluted route that involved dropping off my mom and grandparents at the house prior to dropping me off at the subway station so that Emo could run some errands afterwards. *sigh* I was given detailed instructions as to how to ride the subway and how to find the bus I would need to take up to the shop. I swear I’m an adult… (Although I do have to admit that the bus bit made me a bit nervous. The subway had always been my choice of transportation because I never did get the hang of buses. I didn’t ever have to. I was always hanging out with Jeannie. And as everyone knows, Jeannie is the transportation goddess.)
I hung out for a while at the shoe shop until I found out that my cousins weren’t going to be back until late so I bailed. I wandered down the hill to the other subway station that was in the neighborhood. On the way I RANDOMLY met some guy I used to go to Vida with, Alex. Super weird but kind of cool. What are the chances that we would both be on that hill at the same time??? Anyway, I met up with my other cousin (Un Young) and we headed back to Emo’s. It was a clan gathering of sorts to pay respects to the grandparents kind of thing.
I took quite a few pictures but not like my other Sook Mo. She was going psycho with her camera! *startled* Now that I think about it…just so this doesn’t get confusing, let’s call my shoe shop aunt “Sook Mo #1” and “Sook Mo #2” is the trigger happy one. We all ate, hung out and had a good time. At least I think we did. I passed out soon after eating. *food coma* When I woke up, Un Young had left but my other cousins had arrived. It was great to see everyone again after so long. I really had missed them.
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