Tuesday, January 25, 2005

18/jan korean dinner

I spent another bad night. Not as bad as the one I fainted, but still bad. I thought that after one day with suero oral everything would be ok, and it was like this, but…
We decide to have breakfast at the indian coffee house, my favourite cafeteria. I think I already wrote about this place in a previous post. So there we met ok and lufina. It’s a nice surprise, because I was in the street, buying a book, and just met them there, seating with zac. We spent a lot of time talking, while xac was reading a book about indian history, that is supposed to be very good and readible. And they taught me a few words in korean, and wote me the korean alphabet, that it’s not extremely difficult. And the letters are very very nice, and rectangular. Many letters came from the distruction of a square, and some other have circles on it.
Lufina is a very nice girl, and seems to be a very good person, but she is talking a lot! And sometimes it’s hard for me to talk with ok (uki), that a part of being very beautiful, seems very interesting. And she loves lenguages, and to travel… they have been voluntering in the mother teresa place for a couple of weeks.
After 3 hours, they went to the guest house to prepare the party with the other koreans. They don’t want us to help. After that, an indian guy (35 years old) came and seat at our table. We spoke with him for a while. He is a soap opera actor, that appear on tv once or twice a week. He is very open and seems to be wealthy. He explained us that the arranged marriages doesn’t exist anymore in india. Not even the casts…
And after saying goodbye to the indian coffe house, the dinner. 8 Koreans, 2 canadians, zac and me. The food was good, but the atmosphere was better, sometimes surreal. It became more surreal as the night was going on. There was a group of japanese people, catholic, that came from japan with their priest, a very young priest, that were leaving that night, and they were singing religious song whereas they were dancing, forming a circle. They were jumping, and laughing a lot. It remind me the summer camps I was joining when I was 10 years old.
Ok and Lufina, and the other korean people served the food and drinks all the time. They said that guest in korea are very important, and they treat them as kings. And that was strange because the party was supposed to be a goodbye party for them, not for us. Anyway, was unteresting to hear all the explanations about the traditions of korea, concerning people, food… Ok was explaining me everything, because was hard to hear and to follow everything, since they spoke most of the time in korean, and after a while zac and the canadians started talking. So I found myself where I wanted, with ok, between 2 different groups. And so, we had time to talk. Ok and lufina didn’t want to leave the day after (even if they already had the tickets to bangkok), and I still didn’t know why. At a certain point of the night, when many people left (zac, one canadian and a few korean), towards their rooms, everything became surreal. The japanese were still singing and dancing, a korean girl started jumping due to a stomach ache. She was yelling! Lufina started crying, after drinking a lot of alcohol. And suddenly, a korean woman (40 years old) stood up and started explaining that the 2 korean girls had so many problems!!! She was like a kind of mother in that moment. Lufina was sad because she wanted to adopt an indian child, handicapped. She was working with these children. But the sisters of mother teresa, told her that she was too young, had not job, was still studing and living with her parents. That in the future, who knows, but not now. She said that ok had also problems, because she liked me, but she was very shy, and as she was leaving the day after… so, a totally strange woman, was treating, in a way, like children to ok and lufina. Everything in fact seemed infantil, a very strange situation.
But, for me was good, to start talking with ok. We already talked about that, and about the possibility to meet soon, maybe in tibet, or china. Let’s see.
After that, lufina was feeling very bad, and I spent the whole night talking to ok. It was nice because it started raining, there was no one in the terrace, there was silence, difficult to find in kolkata…
The day after, we left at 10 am, and ok gave me a book about tibet.

25/1/05

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