so i`m back from korea.. i must say that it was a very big disappointment... x( sad, huh? first, our tour guide was totally ignoring me which made it completely impossible to get anything through to her. i know she`s korean and she speaks korean. i speak korean too. so i kept asking her in korean to explain in KOREAN what she was saying, but she kept speakin at me in japanese (it was a japanese tour group thing), so i kept asking her over and over again, and she kept shouting at us in japanese. 2 people understood out of the group of 6. and those 2 ppl don`t speak english to explain to the rest of the people. so i got totally annoyed and was in a bad mood for the rest of the bus ride. and for those of you who know me, you know that i`m sooo horrible at hiding my feelings, so i was showing my very korean side to the rest of my teammates and to megumi and kihei, the pastor`s kids that came with us to korea. xP bad thing i did #1. second, i was totally under the wrong impression. i thought that i would be back at the hotel by 8 in order to meet up with sammy, so i had made plans with him.. but no.. that wasn`t the case. it was a TOUR. like literally. we were dragged around to all the duty free shops that no one wanted to be at. i couldn`t even find a phone to call sammy to cancel! i tried to rush back to the hotel. i found another lady that wanted to go back to the hotel so we hailed a cab together. but korea is always trafficky! xP so it took us an hr to get back.. by the time i got there it was 9, and i called sammy.. he wasn`t very happy. x( but it was my fault... x( so i felt horrible! x( I`M SORRY SAMMY!! so i got to the hotel, and i called hyewon. when she came, i almost cried i was so happy to see her. someone familiar and someone that spoke my own language. someone from home. it was soooo nice.
going to korea with other ethnic`ed people just made me realize how rude korean people are. i was really ashamed and kept apologizing the first day we were there. the food was horrible cuz they took us to the crappy restaurant... the tour guide was totally ignoring us.. the people are just rude.. xP it was soo different from japan. i know that people are always harping about how disgustingly cruel the japanese people are, but at least they`re polite about it. xP i donno. it was just.. very discouraging.... and this was the first time i`ve been back to korea since i came to the states. 14 years... it was sad..
it was very interesting though.. i got to see a lot of interesting things. we went to the DMZ and saw a short clip on the whole n. korea/s. korea split and hopes for unification. it was really.. an experience. i don`t know.. i got caught up in the emotion of the whole thing. but it did make me want to research more about the history about korea and everything... hehe.. i also got to meet my mom again. i got back to the hotel, and there was a msg for me from someone who said that they were with my mom. i was totally confused. so i called the number at the bottom and then my mom answers and i was like.. woah! but i got to meet her again.. haha, but my bad thing i did #2. i had made plans with hyewon and sammy again for that night. but dinner lasted a lil longer than expected. but i made it back around 9, then i called sammy and he said to meet at a certain station, so i was arguing with my mom to let me go. and she did. but then i finally get there, and was there at 10:15ish, but we didn`t meet til 10:45. x( thanks to my stupidity.. xP so i made sammy and hyewon wait for me again. x( i`m so horrible. anywho, so sammy had to leave, cuz he had to catch the last subway. so he left, and then me and hyewon were walkin around lookin for somethin to do when my mom calls. (the original plan had been that i was going to go to my aunt`s house after this lil outing to meet up with my mom and to meet my cousins and uncle that i haven`t seen in 14 years). but i argued and screamed and yelled and fought until finally i just said that i was going to hail a taxi back to the hotel after i had finished playing with hyewon. x( so i had this huge headache that lasted to the next day. but it was probably a punishment for being such a bad daughter. xP
we did other interesting things too.. we visited a palace and went to insa-dong. but mostly, this trip to korea totally put me in my place. i had went on this trip with my own plans in mind--meeting people that were there, playing and etc... but God totally put me in my place. xP that wasn`t the reason for that trip. and that made me reflect on my entire view on this missions trip. i know that i have it really good. who gets to meet their parents during their missions trips?? and see friends? but it made me reexamine myself. xP and see that i was totally in the wrong. i`m trying to fix it now. my first goal is to stop complaining. xP cuz i complain soooo much.. x( so that`s my first thing that i want to change about this trip. if i have a complaint, i`m going to try and not talk. that means that i`ll probably be silent for most of the rest of the trip. but i just hope that i can do it.. xP please pray for me. *sigh* i have such a long way to go....
going to korea with other ethnic`ed people just made me realize how rude korean people are. i was really ashamed and kept apologizing the first day we were there. the food was horrible cuz they took us to the crappy restaurant... the tour guide was totally ignoring us.. the people are just rude.. xP it was soo different from japan. i know that people are always harping about how disgustingly cruel the japanese people are, but at least they`re polite about it. xP i donno. it was just.. very discouraging.... and this was the first time i`ve been back to korea since i came to the states. 14 years... it was sad..
it was very interesting though.. i got to see a lot of interesting things. we went to the DMZ and saw a short clip on the whole n. korea/s. korea split and hopes for unification. it was really.. an experience. i don`t know.. i got caught up in the emotion of the whole thing. but it did make me want to research more about the history about korea and everything... hehe.. i also got to meet my mom again. i got back to the hotel, and there was a msg for me from someone who said that they were with my mom. i was totally confused. so i called the number at the bottom and then my mom answers and i was like.. woah! but i got to meet her again.. haha, but my bad thing i did #2. i had made plans with hyewon and sammy again for that night. but dinner lasted a lil longer than expected. but i made it back around 9, then i called sammy and he said to meet at a certain station, so i was arguing with my mom to let me go. and she did. but then i finally get there, and was there at 10:15ish, but we didn`t meet til 10:45. x( thanks to my stupidity.. xP so i made sammy and hyewon wait for me again. x( i`m so horrible. anywho, so sammy had to leave, cuz he had to catch the last subway. so he left, and then me and hyewon were walkin around lookin for somethin to do when my mom calls. (the original plan had been that i was going to go to my aunt`s house after this lil outing to meet up with my mom and to meet my cousins and uncle that i haven`t seen in 14 years). but i argued and screamed and yelled and fought until finally i just said that i was going to hail a taxi back to the hotel after i had finished playing with hyewon. x( so i had this huge headache that lasted to the next day. but it was probably a punishment for being such a bad daughter. xP
we did other interesting things too.. we visited a palace and went to insa-dong. but mostly, this trip to korea totally put me in my place. i had went on this trip with my own plans in mind--meeting people that were there, playing and etc... but God totally put me in my place. xP that wasn`t the reason for that trip. and that made me reflect on my entire view on this missions trip. i know that i have it really good. who gets to meet their parents during their missions trips?? and see friends? but it made me reexamine myself. xP and see that i was totally in the wrong. i`m trying to fix it now. my first goal is to stop complaining. xP cuz i complain soooo much.. x( so that`s my first thing that i want to change about this trip. if i have a complaint, i`m going to try and not talk. that means that i`ll probably be silent for most of the rest of the trip. but i just hope that i can do it.. xP please pray for me. *sigh* i have such a long way to go....
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