Highlights of my Day... Sunday, March 23

1. Shower time for Mi Nam turned into quite the hilarious situation as he sat on the bathroom floor trying to slurp up the shampoo and soap suds. After the shower we cuddled up on the couch in our towels... hehehe. Now he's super clean... silky smooth.

2. Q had a pretty important English test this morning and so he joined 300 some other Koreans at one of the local middle schools to sweat away two hours over a grueling listening and writing test. After the test Q showed up all exhausted and discouraged from the test and so I took my baby out for lunch.

3. Today it was drizzling outside, which was perfect. Nothing ever quite feels as relaxing as a rainy weekend, especially a rainy Sunday. I love a rainy day.

4. Q and I are quite the movie buffs and we're been waiting for the longest time for the movie "Awake" to come out. We thought it came out today. Apparently we were wrong. No worries. We ended up buying tickets to go see "Step Up 2" which, I must note, could have been as good as "Step Up 1" had they picked a more believable and more attractive leading lady. Her accompanying female actors weren't so pretty either. The least they could have done was made the leading lady do some sit-ups, or heaven forbid, given her some acting lessons. Make-up lessons would have done wonders with the accompany female actors who apparently think more is better... sweety, ultra shinny eye shadow only works on transvestites and circus freaks... hehehe.

5. I had my weekly lesson to plan and so I worked on my lesson while Q read his book... correction... while he slept on his book... hehehe.

6. Apparently the theme of the day was kimchi. We had kimchi jjigga for lunch and then another kind of kimchi jjigga for dinner and you know, you're always bombarded with kimchi side dishes and so it was like a kimchi eating marathon today.

7. In what started off as a casual conversation between Q and I about how we first met, turned into definitely a heavy, heavy conversation... surprisingly enough, Q was the one who kept it going for as long as it did. I had asked him if he wished I was Korean, not cause we'd speak the same language but because we'd share the same culture and thus understand each other more. He answered no.

8. I curled up to him, the tears started up, and the discussion continued... a discussion that I had once vouched to stay relaxed on but knew would eventually surface again. Just didn't expect it to resurface this soon.

9. Our discussion revealed many things. It revealed to me that Q has been thinking about a future "us". I know there's a big difference between being a girlfriend and being a wife, and I know there's a super big difference between being a Canadian wife and being a Korean wife. I've mentioned before on my homepage here that I don't think I would make a good Korean wife. I'm not about to quit my job, spit out some babies, and then drive them off to school while I make a feast for my husband and his parents. My job is better than Q's, I'm not physically able to have kids and even if by chance I could, I don't know if I would want to cause stepping away from my boxing would kill me. Moreover, I don't have a license and I don't really like cooking, let along having a constant packed house. I like my space. I like walking around my house in my bare necessities and I'm sure my in-laws wouldn't enjoy that.

10. But on that note, couldn't we find some kind of middle ground between being a Canadian wife and being a Korean wife? I mean, I think that I've adapted. I've taken from the Korean culture that that I think is good and so my mannerisms and what not as a girlfriend shows both Canadian (Western)traits and Korean traits... I'm one of many "fusion girlfriends", but how do the "fusion wives" do it?

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What is it like being a "fusion wife"?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.
-- Anthony J. D'Angelo