I'm not unemployed anymore - I actually have a very fabulous job as a preschool teacher with the University of Michigan child care centers. But I'm still posting, albeit a little more irregularly, and I don't want to ignore the personal progress I've made since starting this blog by renaming it.

Blog inspiration: I read 48 States in 48 Days by Paul Jury in the summer of 2011. It was fabulous...although he planned way less for his roadtrip than I would have. And at the same time, my lovely Anna was constantly reminding me that our lives were awesome, despite the fact that we didn't have job prospects, new cars, boyfriends/husbands, houses, etc., like so many people we knew. So, in an effort to appreciate my life and the crazy uncertainty that it is, I started writing this blog about the little adventures I have. (And by "writing a blog," I mean "making a list" because I make lists, not narratives.) Even if there isn't a BIG adventure that happens every day, I try to find at least one thing to list :)

Sunday, June 10, 2012

No Wedding Cake (June 9)

  • Today I went to my 3rd Korean wedding. And it was different from the other two! This one was for the Office Girl at my school, Hye Sun. Out of the 3 weddings I’ve been to, I know here the best so I was excited. It was a very interesting experience. They held it at one of the big wedding halls that I see all over the city. We arrived and went up to the hall they had rented on the 6th floor. Since the wedding scheduled before Hye Sun’s wasn’t finished yet, her guests hung out in the back of the room while the other people finished their ceremony and pictures. That was the start of the very business-like structure of the hall. I went into the “bride room” to see Hye Sun. She was sitting under a tree and looked beautiful :)
  
  
After that, Mi Hye and I went to find a seat (many people stayed at the back of the room – but I wanted pictures!). The wedding started and the family was directed/led in by 2 bridesmaids – but they weren’t Hye Sun’s friends, just girls who work at the hall. They basically wear a cute dress and show the family of each wedding where to stand and what to do. Business-like. The ceremony was nice, but not necessarily catered to Hye Sun or her husband’s wishes – just whatever was available from the hall. And the room never got completely quiet because soon after we started, guests from the next wedding started arriving! And since they didn’t know Hye Sun, they didn’t bother to keep quiet :/ Friends of Hye Sun and her husband did perform for them, to make the ceremony a little more personal (which is actually something that has happened at all 3 weddings I’ve been to). And she looked so beautiful, so the rest kinda didn't matter :)



  • After the ceremony, we headed to the dining hall – but we had to wait to get in, because there wasn’t enough seats for us at the moment, what with the guests from the previous wedding still eating and all. I thought this is where the party would be...but nope, it was literally just eating. And it wasn’t even a very social meal – by the time we got there, the only other people we knew at the wedding (the staff from my school) were finished eating and getting ready to leave. So Mi Hye and I enjoyed our meal (the food was pretty good) and waited for Hye Sun and her husband to come greet everyone. There was no big announcement when they arrived, they just slipped in and started thanking their guests. It was really nice to meet her husband. He spoke English and was very sweet – he even said he’d like to have me over to dinner before I leave! It was so cute. Overall, I’m definitely glad that I went and that I’ve gotten to experience 3 very different Korean weddings. I’m excited to go to my next American wedding and actually party though :)
  • After the wedding, I met up with Winter and we met Liz, Ruby, Darryl, Tony, Joe, Sai, Christian, and Joey at the beach. We had dinner and coffee downtown, and even played at the arcade! Haha :) Then Sai, Liz, Christian, Joey, Darryl and I went out in Mundeok again. It was fun that it was the same crew as the night before and we drank, played drinking games (well and not-so-well), and briefly went to norebang. Fun times :)
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