[권윤애 학생의 교환학생 영어일기] - 9월 2째주의 일기

9/10 (토)

One of my father's friend lives in Portland. And she contacted me to eat dinner together. She came to my house to pick me up at 3.p.m. It took an hour to get her home. While getting her house, she asked many things. I was happy to meet Korean after a long time. We looked around Portland down town and get her home. There were her husband, her mother and father and two of her sons. One is 10 years old and the other is 2 years old.
 
I played with the baby while she preparing for dinner. Before eat dinner, she gave me apple juice, popcorn and pistachio. It was delicious. While eating them, I watched Running Man, the Korean TV program. We ate dinner at 6.p.m. We ate Korean food. Grandparents took care of me like their granddaughter. I felt so happy. If I have a chance later, I want to go again.

9/11 (일)

Every Sunday, we go church. It takes 30 minutes to get the church. Actually, I have no religion, so I didn't go church at Korea. But in here, host families are christian, so I go church every Sunday morning. It was really tired to hear a sermon. I forced myself to stay awake. After came back home, we ate sandwiches. At 5, I went park with host mom, Josh, Theo and the dog Hally. We went playground in Josh's elementary school. It took almost 20 minutes to get there.

It was really hard to get there. At the playground, I played with the dog. I threw a tennis ball and Hally got the ball back. We played there almost 2 hours and came back Home. Back home, we ate peanut butter bread with banana. It was delicious.

9/12 (월)

I ate hamburger today. There are no place to take the dog, so we went hamburger store on foot. When I take a car to the store, maybe it takes 10 minutes. But we went there on foot, so it took 40 minutes. My leg was sick because of the walk for a long time. After we ate hamburger, we ate frozen yogurt. I ate coffee and vanilla taste with Oreo and chocolate chips. I liked it. The opposite side was park so we went to there and played for an hour. When we back home, it was already passing 8 p.m, so I did my laundry and homework.

9/17 (토)

Today was raining from the morning. We ate pancakes and mango for breakfast. After finish breakfast, we cleaned our house for an hour. Actually, we planned to go Portland with host mom's friend Tonia last week, but Tonia had a fever so we didn't go to Portland at that time. So, we went Portland today. It was already 3 p.m so we had to eat some food before go to Portland. We decided to go Korean restaurant. I ate 김치찌개, and my host mom ate 육개장, and Tonia ate 순두부찌개. They said it's too spicy but delicious. Because it was raining, we drank hot chocolate.

The hot chocolate in rainy day is perfect. While drinking hot chocolate, we went bookstore. The book store was really big. We found some Korean books. Tonia recommended some Korean books. It's a romance novel and her favorite. She bought the book for me. I loved the book. After we went to bookstore, we moved on to clothing shop and came back to home.

The thing I was amazed was most people use umbrella in rainy day in Korea, but in Portland, people didn't use it instead wearing raincoat. If they don't have raincoat, they just walk getting rained. Although we didn't do many things today, I was really happy today.