Gigantor Heels

My computer ISP is Korean, so now all websites are written in Korean. Cool fact. 

I went to Deajon this weekend. It's about two hours south of Seoul and where the majority of my extended family lives. I had a hard time with my jetlag there, could barely make it past 8 pm. It was a pretty boring trip, since all it was was seeing family, uncles/aunts/grandparents and a lot less of cousins. They're all busy with school. 

Friday... 

Milled around from 7am - 2pm with the family. Yeah, we've all been waking up at wrong hours of the day. I'm still waking up at 7 am. Took a train to Daejon, went to see both grandparents. Done. 

Saturday... 

One of my cousins took a weekend leave from the army (a required service for all Korean men) to take us out. He brought his friend and failed to introduce me and my brother to him the whole time, so I didn't feel like I could say anything to the guy. Of course, I could've just reached my hand over and introduced myself the American way... or bowed and introduced myself the Korean way... but I was too self-conscious. Besides, my cousins said he knew like no English. But whatever, he wasn't that interesting to begin with. Was quiet the whole time. 

We had lunch, then went to go see "Night at the Museum 2." It was actually pretty good, but I thought it was ironic that all these Korean people were watching it because the movie is more or less American/World history. I'm sure they all knew Napoleon and Ivan the Terrible, but Sacagawea? General Custer? Doubt it. 

Went to dinner with my cousins family and my family. Had my first drink of alcohol in front of adults/with adults. It was weird and slightly unsettling. My mom was whatever about it. Joking around that I was probably drowsy from the alcohol and actually commented that she was surprised I was drinking so 'hard' from the beginning. I didn't say much. 

Sunday... 

Took an early bus ride to Seoul with my aunts to attend a wedding. Wore one of my gigantor heels and didn't fail at it =) My mom's cousin's son was getting married; she told me she's never met the guy, but it didn't matter. All the rest of the extended-extended family was there. Kind of intruded and took my fair share of pics! I'm sure the actual photographer was like 'wth.' But I was still too self-conscious about getting up and taking pics... I stayed in the general vicinity of my seat and tried not to be too much of a disturbance. Maybe the fact that I didn't know the couple contributed a bit too. 

I'd say one of the better pictures. 

Observations continued... 

• A lot of Korean electronics sing. The rice cooker, the washer, the cellphone. 
• My goal is to learn Korean fashion this summer. It's mad cute. Case in point: http://www.nak21.com/html/mainm.html
• My gigantor heels are nothing compared to what these Korean women wear everyday, all day. They walk miles in 4-5 inch heels. Makes me falsely believe that I can do it too....