Jeong Young-eun
November 13, 2005 @ 5:47 pm | Listen to this post
You may think this is not surprising, but I met someone really special a couple weeks ago that I have started to date since last week. Everything has happened so fast that I’m just going with it and not thinking too much about it. She is Korean, but has so many good qualities about her that make her unique. English is a second language for her, but it’s never a problem because we can talk for hours. At first, I wasn’t too keen on starting something this early, but why stop something that is going so good? Don’t infer that we will be married tomorrow and I live in Korea forever (, Mom). It only means what it means. Nothing more nothing less. We actually can only see each other once a week because she is studying for an exam in the first week of December to be a certified public teacher. Which is good, because it allows us to take things slow and keep our main priorities in check. But after December, we should have a lot of time to spend together.
Last night was our second date and we went to a famous traditional market in Seoul called In-sa-dong. First we went to a popular bookstore to look for some workbooks to help my Korean vocab. Then we had a nice dinner and walked around the market. It has a lot of expensive art stores that sell remakes of Korean furniture, jewelry, pottery, etc… It also has contemporary work for sale too. Nobody buys anything, just a lot of lookers. After walking the long strip of shops, we hit a real posh coffee shop with beautiful interior. Young-eun and I would spend the rest of night chatting it up about anything from international politics to my big hand size. It was a night to remember. Pictures are below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/conormeagher/sets/1353505/
