about a week ago headed to brenda's parents' farmhouse for the 솔날 holiday. they live in a small town outside of 안동 (andong).
before going i thought i'd be totally uncomfortable, since brenda's the only one who speaks english in her family. but it turns out that i wasn't uncomfortable at all, and i think brenda was overjoyed that i put in some facetime with her folks. not to mention that she, her mother and her father all cooked some real good food out there. i ate well those two days.
jake came in and he's getting along nicely, as he seems to everywhere. we're gonna pay someone to teach us korean lessons. my goal is to be able to translate between my family and brenda's when my folks come out for the wedding.
jake's already making good waves with the other foreigners in 만수동 and he's being his usual brusk but somehow still easily relatable self. The above is his 'goaded-into-it but still-happily-obliging' pose with our buddy Simon who had passed out in the arms of lady liquor previously. strangely (or not so) i wasn't asked to strike one with 'sick boy'. i'm too sullen and surly for spontaneous pictures, and of course, not near enough photogenic.
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