Sunday, September 13, 2009

Rated R family outing

I went hiking again today, except this time I went with my host mom, sis, 2 girl cousins, 1 boy cousin (who has Downs Syndrome and is incredibly sweet...he keeps trying to talk to me, but unfortunately I don't understand anything he is saying), 2 aunts, and my insane grandmother. That's right...grandma went hiking with us. The hike was pretty difficult and pretty steep, but luckily the mountain wasn't that high. My extended host family is really entertaining to be around. My one aunt doesn't speak any English but instead repeats everything I say and then immediately starts laughing. The older of my cousins is incredibly smart and her English is really advanced so I spent most of my time talking to her. She asked for my email so I can only imagine what shes going to be emailing me about. However, no one compares to my host grandmother. Like I said, she is insane. She has the biggest and most infectious smile and is always yelling or laughing about something. The first ridiculous thing she did today was fart like 20 times, very loudly, throughout our hike. Instead of apologizing, she would just start cracking up. Then she chugged a beer during our hike. The funniest thing she did came when we stopped at a park on our way home. First of all, the park was pretty ridiculous in and of itself. I've told you before about the wooden totems of faces they have everywhere in Korea. Well this particular park not only had totems of faces, but also of giant penises. I'm assuming its some sort of fertility park because my mom said many women go there, and I don't think its to stare at the wooden penises. Anyway, when we saw our first phalic totem, my crazy grandmother ran up to it, started stroking it, and yelling "Namja!" (man) in Korean and laughing hysterically. I almost died. Not exactly the family outing I would have imagined.
Also, host mom says we are going back to the penis park at some point for a picnic. Can't wait.
Here are some pics from the afternoon.

Host family from let to right: cousin, sister, grandma, cousin, aunt, cousin, aunt, mom


One of these is not like the other


Host relatives at the top of the mountain


Beautiful view from the top


Host grandma stroking the totem. Dear Lord.




Giant penis totem

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