Amanda Takes Off...

A dozen photos from Osaka are up in the Gallery tab. Since I didn't have time to see anything, they're daily slices of life photos.

Saturday I burned some English-language MP3 CDs for Master. I figured out how to get songs that are on my iPod but not in my library back into my library so I can burn them to MP3s. Assa, because that's where most of my U2 music is. Turns out I have a complete copy of a 1992 concert in Sweden where U2 did "Dancing Queen" with the men from ABBA. Think I got that from an ex-boyfriend.

Sunday I met YJ and H (at different times) to practice Korean. I worked on the honorific form with YJ. I said, "One day [a certain politician] will die."

She threw her head on the table and laughed. Then she said, "You don't need to use honorifics for him, I don't think!"

Later with H I was practicing using adverbs (something he was teaching me since the book hasn't touched on that yet.) I said "Ninjas kill quickly and cleanly."

He shook his head, "You're too direct, Amanda."

I don't think H gets my sense of humor as much as YJ. Heck, at least now I can remember how to use both honorifics and adverbs. (Not that I'm fluent with honorifics!) I've got to make a language fun or emotional to remember it. That's why I embrace the really bad errors I make, like calling Studious delicious, saying my brother is gay, telling Master my monkey hurt... I will never make those mistakes again!

H and I met around 7 pm and he needed to get a haircut for his senior photos. I can't remember the last time I was with a man when he got a haircut. Of course, you don't often see a Western woman with a Korean man in a barber shop. Apparently the woman who cut his hair asked a ton of personal questions about me before he said, "You know, she's learning Korean." I wasn't even paying any attention.

We finally went back to the subway around 11, where I discovered that the last train to way-out-where-I'm-staying had already run. Due to a complicated bus mishap, I didn't get home till after 1 am.

That's me, working on adverbs until after the last train.