Tuesday, 06 October 2009

Lost in Translation

I've been in Korea for close to 4 weeks now, at first it was really difficult for me to adjust to my new surroundings but thanks to the awesome friends I've made through EPIK and facebook, every minute spent here has been one to take note of.

I have met some really wacky people and when I say wacky, I mean it in the nicest of ways :)

During our first week in Busan, some friends and I went out to dinner, after walking around aimlessly, we finally decided on a nice place to dine; it was a Korean BBQ place. The food was devine.
After supper, we were walking out and a middle age woman handed my friend Bee an ice cream while mumbling something in Korean...
he then said, "come on guys, get yourselves some ice cream. its free!"
We were excited but nervous to take some. The woman then hit Bee on the arm and said something else in Korean,
Bee's response was, "she's just saying that how can I eat first and not offer the girls."
The lady then handed a cone to my friend Kira; at this point we all became really excited and was looking forward to eating the ice cream. However, that excitement was short lived, the woman then walked over to Kira and grabbed the cone from her and walked away... we were left speechless; we then realised that she hit Bee because he had eaten her ice cream.

It turns out that the lady was just a customer there and we had mistaken her for a manger.

LOL... This story always leaves me in stitches =)

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