Celebrating Two Years, Snickers, Me... and Bob?!... Wednesday, January 25

When Snickers and I were on our honeymoon, in Bali, I was approached by a little girl selling postcards in a rice field. She was no older than eight and she spoke to me with such a sweet voice and with such perfect English that, well, I couldn’t resist buying her little stack of postcards. Snickers teased me about being putty in the little girl’s hands so I told him that I bought them for him but because he made fun of me I was going to wait to give them to him.

Today, for our second year wedding anniversary, I finally gave him one of these postcards. On the back of it I had written him a little love letter and then later on in the day I sent Pyen Chi over to Snickers with it in her mouth. It was quite the cute presentation of my letter and he greeted it with a huge smile.

Snickers and I aren’t really into the exchanging of gifts but we’re really big into letters. Occasionally I’ll find a post-it note stashed away in my desk or stuck on the bathroom mirror. Tonight, when we headed out for a late dinner after boxing, he surprised me with a letter. Originally we had made reservations at 5-Star’s restaurant but because I was kept longer at boxing with having to spar and whatnot, we couldn’t make our reservation. We headed to a local little café/bar for a plate of hot chicken and salad and it was there that Snickers surprised me with a letter. He had asked me if he looked stronger and then insisted I feel his arm. I thought it was a rather strange request and totally out of the blue but when I felt his arm I felt paper crumble in his sleeve – it was a letter. He had stuffed it in his jacket and thought he was pretty smart having pulled off this surprise.

I had anticipated a sweet letter written all in Korean but much to my total shock it was written in English!!! English?!... definitely a first for him. Snickers has never written anything in English, not by himself that is. He’s written a letter to my family but it was my English translation of what he initially wrote in Korean that he copied down. Tonight’s English letter was something he wrote solely by himself. I can only imagine how long it took him to write, yikes!

Of course the letter was bombarded with grammatical errors, misused words and scattered sentences but I definitely gave him A+ for effort and thought. I was touched though I must note Ibusted out in laughter at the glance of the first sentence.

“Bob and I’ve been married almost two years...”

“Who is Bob?” I asked him. “I don’t know too. Dictionary told me Bob” he told me. I think what had happened was he had used his online translator for random translations he couldn’t do and things got lost in translation. The end of his letter had a couple of sentences in Korean. I think that’s where his frustration with English and sweating away at trying to express himself in another language got to him and he gave into wanting to just write in Korean.

Apparently now my new nickname is Bob… hahaha, too funny;)