After class, I headed over to Hwa Sun's house. Jaebin was with his friends, so we visited a little before we met up with Jaebin and the friends. We also stopped at the bakery, Paris Croissant to get some pastries for breakfast in the morning. Jaebin's friend's Mom picked us up and took us all to Yongsan Station/I'PARK Mall (also where I play soccer) to go to the CGV (Movie Theater Chain). I played babysitter for a few hours and watched the movie with the 3 boys while the Moms chatted and shopped. We watched "Rise of the Guardians" in 4D (that means in addition to the 3D glasses, the seats moved side to side, air was blown, the lights in the theater flashed, and sometimes you got "punched" in the back from the seat!). It was dubbed in Korean, and there were no subtitles. Luckily it was an animated "children's" film so it was easy enough to follow even though I couldn't understand everything. It was funny because in the very beginning there were a few basic sentences and I understood them--those were the sentences Jaebin translated for me--or words that I knew. Later he proudly boasted to Mom and Dad, "I translated the movie for Amy Nuna!!" Hwa Sun asked me, "really?!". I laughed saying, "only words or sentences that I already knew"--she laughed too. After the movie we went back to her house and got their car and went to go pick up Hwa Sun's husband from work.
While we were waiting for him to arrive in the parking garage, a lady beckoned Hwa Sun to come help her. In Korea--maybe I should say, in Seoul, cars park basically anywhere they can find a space. So, they leave their cars in neutral in case someone needs to move their car to get out. So, this lady was standing 50m away maybe and was waving at Hwa Sun to come (Hwa Sun said that it was so rude--if she needed help she should have come and politely asked for help instead of just waving her over) at that time, her husband arrived and was able to help push the car for her. Then we were off to dinner. Mr. Ryu wanted to take me out to a nice Italian restaurant. We did something similar to when we were with Amanda in Itaewon--we ordered a salad, a pizza, a pasta and a risotto for all of us to share. Jaebin passed out on the table while we were still finishing our dinner.
We arrived back at their home and got ready for bed. We watched TV for a little before heading to bed. Hwa Sun and I saw a really sad documentary about Tiger abuse in Thailand-several different 'event'/locations doing different mistreatment to the tigers.
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| Three Strong Boys!! Jaebin, KangMin and new friend |
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| I have 3 dates!! |
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| You might be able to notice Mr. Ryu at the front of the car, pushing it for the rude lady |
1. Wow! The Korean theater's technology seems very sophisticated, provding all those special effects coming from the building! (Years ago, U.S. theaters showed a big-budget film called "Earthquake"--about Los Angeles--and the seats in all cities were rigged with electric wires arranged to vibrate the theater seats during the eathquake scenes in the drama. One movie-reviewer wrote: "Wouldn't it be a nasty prank if--after the film ended and the lights went on--if the theater manager turned on the vibrations one more time!") 3. Your word "beckoned" is very good. R&M.
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