How come, whenever you are in the midst of the best, most exciting, dream you can ever have, you are woken up by some little creature who has decided to get up early instead of the usual 7:30?? Well this seems to be happening more than usual and happend just last night when I was in the middle of what I thought was my favourite dream yet. The worst part is, all the creatures want to do is watch the kids channel on T.V before mom comes home and starts the long 5 hours of "tough", "grueling" school ( notice my apostropheres here). This is , of course, not my favourite way to start any day. Especially a Friday. Cereal and milk alternative for breakfast followed by my math project and severeal other subjects. Then, what we excitment starved people think, the best part of the day. Shopping at the big store. I actually enjoy looking at all the notebooks, stationary and little odd and random things. The things that make you laugh the most here in South Korea are the english translations and the little splurbs they put on the front of notenooks and shops. Like the bakery shop across from my dentist, on the front where they put the name it says "don't bite me or you will love me" I thought it was hilarious at first and couldn't make sense of it at all. I shall post some more quotes and funny little doodads that you get in the little side shops here later on. There are the 1000 won shops which sell pretty much everything you could possibly need. Toothbrush? Aisle 3. Instant noodles? Right over there. Restraunt signs? Round the corner. Each 1000 won shop has a different combanation of things. It is quite a blast exploring each one and making a mental note to save up your money to buy the really cool clip with dots on next time.
Today however we were here to get the weekly shopping. This is a task of enormous proportion. As a family of five we usually get a whole shopping trolley full of food, juice, milk,bread and all of that and it only lasts 4 or 5 days. Then we have to carry about 6-7 bags full of heavy food all the way up the hill, around the corner and up the stairs. We try to drag all the food out as long as possible so we don't have to go back for at least a week. It wouldn't be so bad if there wasn't the blasting music, usually some sort of popular k-pop, and korean people shouting at the top of their voices '"Try this sausage!" "Try the cheese!! Buy one get one free!". And then every half an hour there is the one Homplus theme song in which all the Homeplus employees have to dance to this song. If you ask me this is the best part of the whole trip. Some really get into it, maybe they are the newbies so they aren't tired of it. Yet. Thankfully we don't have to lug all the shopping home today because we have a ride. Who is late. So we stand there in the rain, staring longingly at all the people eating warm noodles and chatting inside.We don't wait long fortunatley and we are soon back home, preparing dinner, well I am trying to help but spilling oil everywhere and alomost chopping my finger off while trying to chop the carrots, isn't what I call a success. it tasted great though and watching a movie while eating was also a bonus. Then bed time, try to get back to that dream.........
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