A Date!

I went on a date!

...with one of my co-teachers 19 year old nieces. so sketchy sounding but it was a lot of fun. It went down like this:

My co-teacher apparently heard I was looking to make friends with some koreans. Apparently she assumed i meant...like...dating. You don't set up your niece to meet with a co-worker unless it's dating stuff, not here in korea anyways. So at first I was a little sketched out but then I decided to just take a chance and see what happened. Worst possible outcome was it would be horribly awkward and I would laugh at it in a couple weeks and have a good story.

I got to the meeting point a little early and realized two things; I had chosen a really terrible meeting location (chongshin is ugly as shit) and it was hot as fuck. So I waited inside a glamour store (that was also a convenience store??) looking just terrifically creepy I'm sure, eyeballing every young woman that walked out of the subway. I'll admit to being a little nervous, first real date in years, first blind date ever.

So a challenge was immediately presented to me, I had no idea what she looked like. and sadly I'm still unable to identify age so every "youngish" looking woman walking out of the subway was potentially her. Finally a young, but not too young, looking girl comes out and starts looking around. We make eye contact but she grabs for her phone and turns around. 1 min later she turns back and comes and says hello. Apparently she called her aunt to make get a description. Does this kinda thing happen a lot I wonder?

Well the first couple minutes were pretty darn awkward, but we went and got some coffee and donuts and chatted. and chatted, and chatted and chatted. We chatted for about 3 hours. We chatted about basically everything, family (she has a younger brother, freshman in highschool), friends, school, work life, future. Lots and lots. Considering that I can't speak Korean it must have been pretty exhausting for her. She spoke remarkably fluently and we were able to laugh over the mildly frequent grabs for the translator in her cell phone. She likes rap and electronic (like daft punk), that was probably the biggest surprise, she really likes american rap too. I recommended Ludikris (?), we'll see how that plays out. Another surprising thing was her attitude. apparently she was quite the tomboy growing up and now as an adult she's quite the determined, pratical young woman. If you ever meet a young korean woman I think you'll understand why i'm surprised, the majority of them are full of fluff and nonsense and care more about how they look than anything else. While she is quite attractive it didn't seem like she worried too much about it either. ...which makes her even more attractive to me at least.

We eventually ran out of steam. So we decided to take a tour of her school. It was very nostalgic to be back at a university; even with all the differences there were still enough similarities to ASU to bring back memories. And it was cute how excited she was to talk about classes and teachers and the like. She likes to swim for the school club team.

We finished up, rather tired, with a trip to get some ice cream from cold stone (nice). all told we spent about 5 hours talking. How'd it go? not sure. she complemented my eyes early on, she made it quite clear that she doesn't have a boyfriend. but i don't have a cell phone so we couldn't do the "exchanging numbers" routine. She also lives hella far away from me, in Nowon (no one), which i didn't realize until later that night. she traveled offly far for that date, somewhere around an hour or a little more. We shook hands once, and then again randomly. Sue me, i haven't been on a date in years and i wasn't sure what to do. I plan on writing her an email later tonight or tomorrow and maybe inviting her out to dongdaemon or myeong dong. something. I'd like to give props to emmy for giving me very down to earth advice on how to precede from the first date. Very helpful and soothing. Thanks gal!

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