....for a dance class right now.
It has been 7 months since I have actually danced and it is absolutely killing me. Now that I'm in a bigger apartment I do what I can around my floor and stretch as often as I can but seriously, come on, a dance class is not much to ask for right?! I honestly feel my body shake when I listen to music, something that I could choreograph to or learn a dance to but instead I'm on the bus and am limited to dancing in my head. I swear one day I will just break out in a routine in the middle of the street like they do in the movies. My dreams to open a dance studio get bigger and bigger every day that I am without dance...I think they should make a tv movie out of me and my poor unfortunate life eh!
The gym and yoga isn't enough, I need more and I miss dancing SO much. I could go for a Shawn Byfield routine and would give both my arms for it, except then the routine wouldn't look too good but you get what I mean....I'm dying here! I've had to subject to learning stuff off youtube and that's just sad. I need mirrors and springy wood floor and speakers!! When I get home I am signing up for every dance class imaginable to get myself back into shape....and although I might suck for awhile I'm determined. So anyone who is reading this and is lucky enough to be taking a dance class, please enjoy it an extra amount for me and think of me while you're performing....and I will be crying lol ok too dramatic I think.
Dreaming of dance from now until September,
janers xo
"I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance"
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Koreans don't wave
So it occurred to me after being here for a little while that Koreans don't wave...they don't wave hello or goodbye, they just don't wave. In Asia, people like to bow. Let me re-phrase that, in Korea, people loooooove to bow. They don't just bow once, when they bow they go big or go home. There are usually 3 or 4 bows, maybe more depending on how many people they are saying hello or goodbye to. It's hilarious, well at first it was, now I'm just used to it. But even worse, now I bow too! So I'm bowing and waving and then bowing again, people probably think there's something wrong with me. I also think that I've converted my kids and parents into waving because I do it so incessantly that they probably just gave in and joined me....I like to think that if foreigners are taking over Korea, maybe waving should too! I'm just worried that when I go back to Canada I'll bow to people when I'm saying thank you as a natural instinct...somehow I don't think bowing would fly in Canada.
I also realized this past weekend that I stopped taking pictures. Of course I take pictures of events, my kids, nights out BUT not of the Seoul scenery or places that I go. I spend so much time in the same areas that I forget that I'm still kind of a tourist. I mean I live here, I finally after 6 months feel at home in my apartment but still, I'm not here permanently. I forget, as many people do here, that Seoul is actually pretty cool and there are so many quirky parts of the city that I really need to remind myself that those things won't always be there. I have my memories of them but I feel like Seoul is a place you can't really explain, mostly because half the things here are unbelievable....you need that evidence so that people don't think you're lying. I always carry my camera on me but stopped taking photos so on Sunday at the Andy Warhol exhibit and then walking around Idae I started again without even thinking about it. It's the little things here that I love and that I can't take for granted. It's the graffiti on walls, the poorly translated English, the names of clubs and restaurants that leave you wondering (ie. Nuts Dogs Coffee hmmm figure that one out), the fashion and just the daily happenings here that leave you wishing you had a camera. Koreans don't know how hilarious they are, how entertaining the things they do and say are. You don't see it when it's you, but for me I just can't help but smile, then get frustrated, then laugh and smile again. I love living here because it makes me feel something, even if that something isn't always good. It makes you feel alive, those moments when you remember where you are, you just can't help but appreciate it! Don't get me wrong, I have many moments of anger and annoyance, but I think I do wherever I am when things are different or don't go as planned. Sometimes I forget that I'm the minority, that I'm the weird one and when things go wrong it might actually be my fault just for not being Korean. And ya that sucks but that's the way it is so really can I complain? Well probably not but I will anyways :)
Until next time (picture me bowing and waving about 18 times, just to make sure you get the point)
janey
xoxoxo
I also realized this past weekend that I stopped taking pictures. Of course I take pictures of events, my kids, nights out BUT not of the Seoul scenery or places that I go. I spend so much time in the same areas that I forget that I'm still kind of a tourist. I mean I live here, I finally after 6 months feel at home in my apartment but still, I'm not here permanently. I forget, as many people do here, that Seoul is actually pretty cool and there are so many quirky parts of the city that I really need to remind myself that those things won't always be there. I have my memories of them but I feel like Seoul is a place you can't really explain, mostly because half the things here are unbelievable....you need that evidence so that people don't think you're lying. I always carry my camera on me but stopped taking photos so on Sunday at the Andy Warhol exhibit and then walking around Idae I started again without even thinking about it. It's the little things here that I love and that I can't take for granted. It's the graffiti on walls, the poorly translated English, the names of clubs and restaurants that leave you wondering (ie. Nuts Dogs Coffee hmmm figure that one out), the fashion and just the daily happenings here that leave you wishing you had a camera. Koreans don't know how hilarious they are, how entertaining the things they do and say are. You don't see it when it's you, but for me I just can't help but smile, then get frustrated, then laugh and smile again. I love living here because it makes me feel something, even if that something isn't always good. It makes you feel alive, those moments when you remember where you are, you just can't help but appreciate it! Don't get me wrong, I have many moments of anger and annoyance, but I think I do wherever I am when things are different or don't go as planned. Sometimes I forget that I'm the minority, that I'm the weird one and when things go wrong it might actually be my fault just for not being Korean. And ya that sucks but that's the way it is so really can I complain? Well probably not but I will anyways :)
Until next time (picture me bowing and waving about 18 times, just to make sure you get the point)
janey
xoxoxo
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