Dinner with my students

Tonight, Yeon Kyoung's family invited me to dinner at their house. Very near mine, just a few minutes away, under the bridge on the main road. I think I'm falling in love with her, and her sister, too, but Yeon Kyoung especially. She's so understanding, too, of my Korean, and is really trying to help me. We usually just walk around the playground together, speaking alternately in English and Korean. I sometimes wonder if I'm not making something of a pariah out of her, is it cool or not cool to be seen so often with the teacher....? but she adores spending time with me, and I won't ever tell her to get away from me. I like her too much for that.

She and Jee Sook met me near the E-Mart. It was so cute....as I was walking down (they called me a half hour early and asked me to meet them), Jee Sook called me...again...and as soon as she spotted me, started running towards me calling out my name. I couldn't help but smile. I asked her, in Korean, where her sister was...and she pointed around the corner of the shopping mart.

It was cute to watch the two of them running up the concrete stairs, too. Yeon Kyoung gave me a tour of her home (see below).



Later on, she gave me a Korean lesson....



Her mother was so nice, making sure I had everything I could possibly want. For dinner we ate bimbibop (rice with mixed veggies) and a clear soup with seafood and tofu. Also, some salty dried fish, which was absolutely delicious.

Here is a sample of my conversation describing my visit:

Supermodelspy
i just had dinner with my students' family
9:55

Sreneangel
oh yeah?
9:55

Supermodelspy
yeon kyoung and her sister, jee suk
i had fun playing with her brothers too
i kept saying "nanun noru pogu issaiyo," i'm watching you...and doing the bumblebee tickling thing
they thought it was hilarious
...either that, or they were just ticklish

..heheheh

Yeon Kyoung and her mother walked home with me. We stopped at the E-Mart, I thought because her mother needed something for the house--instead, she bought me orange juice. It was a bit shocking, really. I didn't expect anything like that. I had mentioned I would like some juice at the house, which she didn't have, but I assured her water was fine. If anything, I assumed she had bought the juice so she would have some in case I visited again. Which would still have been really sweet of her; this was doubly so.

It's late, though, almost two in the morning, and I should be sleeping.