Intercultural Life
Sorry EXO fans! His dislike of EXO grows more and more. I’m starting to warm up to them though. I really like ‘Growl’.
He is not a huge fan of VIXX either but he really likes that song (it was the first one we did a Kpop Comments on).
So this Kpop Contest was yesterday and finalists were decided for the Kpop festival in Gangwon. We filmed a bit, so video coming soon! 4Minute were the judges! Though… no comment on their judging skills!
He can actually swim! Just badly. I’ve mentioned this before, how even though he was in the Korean navy, he is not very comfortable with swimming. He gets really nervous. Not only him, lots of Korean people can’t swim or aren’t comfortable with swimming which is quite different to Australian culture. We do a lot of swimming in comparison and usually learn to swim at a very young age and have to do some swimming lessons in school.
Maybe I can get him more comfortable in the ocean when we have Christmas at the beach this year…
Australian native cockroaches are the nice ones! They don’t come into houses. It’s the European and American ones that are the dirty evil ones. Unfortunately those pest ones are in Australia and love our warm climate. You’ll sometimes find cockroaches even in super clean homes in Australia unfortunately.
My husband hates cockroaches even more than the average person. I know a few other Australian women married to Korean men as well and their husbands are terrified too. We always have to be the ones getting rid of insects and bugs. Maybe it’s because we grew up in Australia and are just used to creepy-crawlies… but doesn’t matter how macho our husbands think they are… we are the ones dealings with this stuff.
The other night my husband and a friend were watching cockroach videos on YouTube. I guess they like to terrify themselves. I managed to sneakily film some of their very extreme reactions and maybe we’ll show you sometime. Actually that’s why I wanted to see if we could see a native cockroach up close, because they can be quite big, and I think Mr Gwon’s reaction might be YouTube worthy haha.
“Take a sickie”, “Chuck a sickie”, “Throw a sickie” is Australian slang for pretending to be sick and not going to work but still getting paid. My husband used to be a hard worker until he was corrupted by the Australian workplace! He saw how much other people take sickies when they just want a day off and started questioning why he was working so hard.
He loves shows like the X Factor and there is a Korean girl this time so he’s been following it. But because he works at nights he will be missing a lot of it. He can just catch up later though. I’m not letting him stay home from work just so he can watch the X Factor!
Mr Gwon’s turn….
Okay yes… I do like to inform bananas about what is going to happen to them. And I did make delicious muffins.
You can see the honey banana muffins I made on Mr Gwon’s What a nice site.
Just a little video I filmed while visiting my parents.
European settlement in Australia began not much more than 200 years ago so what we view as old isn’t that old for most other countries! Aboriginal history is long and interesting and very important, but Aboriginal people didn’t build big structures that lasted, so something that is considered old in Australia… isn’t that old. I love history so I’m excited when I’m in Korea and see buildings that are hundreds and hundreds of years old. You just can’t experience that in Australia. Which is why as I walked past a bridge and saw the date it was built I thought that was cool. My husband was there to remind me about Korea though. Australia can’t win in this competition.
So what about your country?
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