We don't usually spend any time around one another, so there's rarely any reason to mention her in my blog. For what it's worth, she lives down in Oregon.
Come to think of it, I don't think I write about my family at all ...
oh, and I understand what you feel when you said there was more construction in S. Korea over 5 days than in US for over a year. I guess it would be the same comparison I'd make with Macau and Portugal!
And the majority of that money was spent all in one day!
Part of it, I think too, is that construction takes place at a much quicker pace here in Korea than what I'm used to seeing back home. That makes any construction that takes place a lot more obvious, since you might go from having a building one day to no building the next day, and a new building up by the end of the month. (That's just a guess on the time, of course.) What kind of construction do you have going on in Macau - housing, commercial, or something else?
$1,000 would buy so much more here in Korea...you must be really tall...
Also, I'm rarely shoved here in Korea. But I do get that light knuckle in the back from adjummas. It's not too obnoxious, but it still makes my adrenaline kick in when someone I don't know is touching me.
On a more humorous note, you know how friends and moms & daughters walk with their arms limply entwined? I was walking towards a train and this arm is suddenly limply around mine. I look around to see another Korean woman, and then we had that priceless moment of confusion looking at each other before we realized what was going on. We both did a mini gasp and she was very very embarrassed, at the same time she was looking for the person she'd meant to be affectionate with.
I'm 188cm tall, which probably isn't that bad, but the problem is that my arms are fairly long compared to the norm here in Korea. My first winter in Korea I went out with a co-teacher to buy a new winter coat and nothing we saw fit properly -- even asking for the largest size left me with sleeves that were a few inches away from reaching my wrists. I suppose things might be easier if I spent some time hunting around Seoul ...
There seems to be a lot of talk on expat blogs (or the ones I come across anyway) about how much pushing and shoving goes on in Korea, but it's very rare for me to experience it. I think part of it has to do with how a person acts when they're walking, but that's probably something to write about in a post of its own.
That's a great (humorous) story about the stranger coming up and linking arms with you! Back in 2002 I had a Korean man take and hold my hand as we were walking around Tapgol Park ... I knew about women holding hands/ linking arms, but I had no idea what to think about a man doing likewise.
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Come to think of it, I don't think I write about my family at all ...
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oh, and I understand what you feel when you said there was more construction in S. Korea over 5 days than in US for over a year. I guess it would be the same comparison I'd make with Macau and Portugal!
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Part of it, I think too, is that construction takes place at a much quicker pace here in Korea than what I'm used to seeing back home. That makes any construction that takes place a lot more obvious, since you might go from having a building one day to no building the next day, and a new building up by the end of the month. (That's just a guess on the time, of course.) What kind of construction do you have going on in Macau - housing, commercial, or something else?
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Also, I'm rarely shoved here in Korea. But I do get that light knuckle in the back from adjummas. It's not too obnoxious, but it still makes my adrenaline kick in when someone I don't know is touching me.
On a more humorous note, you know how friends and moms & daughters walk with their arms limply entwined? I was walking towards a train and this arm is suddenly limply around mine. I look around to see another Korean woman, and then we had that priceless moment of confusion looking at each other before we realized what was going on. We both did a mini gasp and she was very very embarrassed, at the same time she was looking for the person she'd meant to be affectionate with.
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There seems to be a lot of talk on expat blogs (or the ones I come across anyway) about how much pushing and shoving goes on in Korea, but it's very rare for me to experience it. I think part of it has to do with how a person acts when they're walking, but that's probably something to write about in a post of its own.
That's a great (humorous) story about the stranger coming up and linking arms with you! Back in 2002 I had a Korean man take and hold my hand as we were walking around Tapgol Park ... I knew about women holding hands/ linking arms, but I had no idea what to think about a man doing likewise.
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