I'm engaged!!!

What an interesting evening :) The mother (still don't know her name), her friend and her husband, and later a girl who also lives in the flat all sat round the table for dinner. She made me a rice and egg thing slighty different to what everyone else was eating, although can see i'm game to try anything so may not do that next time :) We ate scabber fish and I struggled to separate the fish from the bone with chopsticks so she cut it up for me so I could just pick it up. I'm not a child or an old woman yet and still I need someone to cut up my food for me. Oh dear. Considering I don't particularly like fish, this wasn't too bad - although EXTREMELY salty. With this was of course lots of different types of kimchi - yummy.

After this we had coffee (I would certainly not call it coffee but anyway). The coffee comes in prepared packets with the coffee, milk AND sugar (one way to ruin a good cup) all together. I think I might be in need of some unsugared coffee in the near future.

We also had a beer and the other girl who lives in the flat drinks her beer through a straw. I'm used to seeing that in a boat race but now will become a regular occurance :) And it would get me mega tipsy! With the beer was after dinner snack which consisted of dried squid and what was called mouse fish (the description sounded distinctly like a sting ray but can't find out what it is). I tried it, didn't like it and stopped eating it.

The mother's friend has got twins so we a had a nodding head giggle moment about that when I said I was a twin. After our brief encounter yesterday, I really like the mother :) She's a good laugh and has a great sense of humour. She plays badminton every evening so tomorrow night, I am going to with her and see how my badminton skills fare. I am going to get whipped! She also wants me to give her English lessons - up for doing so and she will also give me a few Korean lessons as well.

I'm getting married!! Ha, well i'm tempted to say so anyway :) (did I scare you there mum?!) hee hee. I have a ring on the 4th finger of my right hand and the automatic reaction is that I am engaged. So, I explain that it's the left hand if you're engaged. And of course the question that follows is, 'so you have a boyfriend?' Uh.. no. And again, more explaining to do there.

- I had no idea that there is such a thing as 'Korean age'. When a child is born, they start the years off at 1. As opposed to being alive for a year and then being 1. So I would be 23 now instead of 22.

- EVERYONE has a fancy mobile phone (including the 7yr old)

- all phones have a Korean-English dictionary. Extremely useful at the moment as when they are trying to explain things to me and can't get the point across with numerous attempts at different words and flailing expressive arms to go with that, it's just typed into the phone and an answer is given. I prefer the flailing arms method myself.

So I learnt a few more words tonight - Kom bei (cheers!), shike (rice juice) and divorce (?!) - the flat mate is divorced. The translation of divorce is to 'resingle'!! I find this hilarious!! I didn't get it at first and they were like resingle resingle (saying it quickly and laughing at the same time) So out came the phone to let me know what they meant.

Now to get an early night in preparation for my first day at school!