Intercultural Life
I shouldn’t be scared! My Mother-in-law is really sweet. The bang of the door just scared me and then I looked really suspicious digging around in the ice cream freezer. But really my bread had been stored in there, I didn’t know it had been moved to another freezer. I bought a lot of bread in Seoul but to make sure it lasts I need to freeze it.
Unfortunately it’s really tempting having a big freezer full of ice cream at the front of the house! Not good for diets.
Now that the weather is getting warmer I can show you some stuff outside!
There aren’t many white people here so I do get stared at a lot. It doesn’t bother me until…. it’s teenage girls walking behind me and laughing! That’s when I get paranoid. Is there something wrong with me? Do I have something on me? Are they just laughing because I’m different? Most likely it’s nothing to do with me, and they aren’t even as bad as Australian teenagers but there is still something unnerving about it. Also I don’t have the fluency in language to deal with it if something happened.
It’s so weird because of course I was once a teenage girl but the older I get the more annoying and scary teenagers get!
We just spent the weekend in Seoul. The contrast between Seoul and the countryside is always interesting. We got off the bus and saw a guy we know, not necessarily a friend, but someone we see around. He offered right away to give us a ride back to the house in his dusty truck. So we put the suitcase in the back and squished into the front. Country hospitality I guess!
On Friday night we hung out with Eat Your Kimchi which was lots of fun. Saturday we went to a wedding and saw some friends and then Sunday we went to Suwon and did a livechat and some collaborations with Hallyu Back.
Busy weekend but so much fun!
We went on a little adventure on the weekend.
It is always a bit weird going from the countryside into Seoul. We feel really comfortable out in the countryside, so Seoul can be a bit overwhelming sometimes. We have to double check maps and subway exits and are carrying bags – it really makes you feel out of place.
Up until yesterday my husband thought the phrase was “country pumpkin” not “country bumpkin” so had been calling himself a country pumpkin which is pretty funny since pumpkin also means “ugly” in Korean!
One of the biggest differences I noticed was that the women had much whiter skin than the women in the countryside. Which makes sense if countryside women are getting more sun. But not all countryside women are outside a lot either so it wasn’t just that. I’m pretty sure the makeup had a lot to with it too. The way I saw some Seoul women wear makeup made their faces look a lot whiter and was contrasted with red lipstick. It was a look that I haven’t seen as much out here.
We will be back in Seoul next week. We’ll be going to a friend’s wedding as well as hopefully doing some other exciting stuff.
We discuss some differences between the Korean countryside and the Australian countryside.
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