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12/28/07

Permalink 02:55:09 pm, by admin Email , 75 words   English (US)
Categories: ...and Takes On, Friends, Korea, Feats and Defeats (Language)

"You Are Korean."

When Master told me his brother's wife was pregnant, I asked if she was having a boy or a girl.

Master's Wife said, "They don't know. In Korea, doctors can't tell because parents want boys and..." she seemed to search for a way to explain it at my level of Korean. I understood.

"Ah, I understand," I said. "But if they give a doctor money? Will they know?"

Master laughed. "Oh, Amanda! You are Korean!"

An American educator moves moved to Korea, presumably to teach English. Instead she discovers discovered that learning Korean one taekwondo class at a time is was a more captivating activity.

Somewhere along the way, she met a Good Man, fell in love, and ended up back in the States. Still doing taekwondo, still learning Korean...

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