Out Asianed Again

 5.16.2012

Wednesday.

Today I wanted to get work done, and I did, just not so much academics. I spent most of my time in the design lab posting blogs and just hanging out with Anthony and Steve. We spent a lot of time on Google maps checking out different places in America. I showed them around Oregon from a bird’s eye view. Anthony was really excited that there is a Lebanon in Oregon. Anthony is Lebanese. So basically he is from Oregon and we are related.

We took a break from our virtual tour of America to go to the gathering. Today we didn’t have a speaker, instead we all sat on the lawn and ate free pizza. I got to hang out with the second years. They are cool.

After, I figured I wasn’t going to get any work done at school, so I headed home to work on my essay. I did some laundry so that it could be hanging on the line. As I was getting lots of work done, Julliane called and invited me to go to dinner with him and Hong. They have been meaning to take me to Korean Barbeque for a while now, but they have never been free. Even though I know I should have said no and worked on my paper, I said yes. And it was totally worth it.

We went to a Korean barbeque place in Strathfield. For those of you who don’t know, Korean Barbeque is where there is a grill in the middle of your table, and they bring food and you cook it right there in front of you. We walked in, and everyone in the place was Korean. For real. I was the only white person there. Before I knew it, we were seated at a table, Hong and Juliane said some stuff in Korean to the staff, and the food started coming. I was handed a pair of chopsticks and I thought “oh Jeeze, here we go again,”

I started trying to use them. And I was doing okay until Juliane told me I was holding them wrong. All this time, I thought I was doing alright. I was sitting there, practicing my technique, when all of the sudden, the waiter brings a fork and just places it next to me. I just started laughing. No one said anything to him. He just watched me trying to use chopsticks and thought “Yikes that girl needs a fork!”

After Korean Barbeque we went to Gloria Jeans coffee shop and all got some hot chocolate. There, they boys saw one of their co workers. He really liked me. Later after we had ordered and sat down, Julliane made me guess the co workers age. I said 45. But apparently he was 35. Then Julliane threated that he was going to tell him that I thought he was a solid 10 years older than he actually was. Luckily he didn’t.