It’s been eight weeks since The Canadian One and I swapped The Land of The Morning Calm for The Land of The Maple Leaf but there are some mornings when I wake up just a little teeeeeny bit confused about which country I actually live in.
Take my 5 minute journey from our house to the train station in the mornings:
On the train I also pass a bunch of Korean stores, a Korea hair salon, Bow Bul Go Gi restaurant and Insadong BulGoGi restaurant. Oh and that E-Mart is exactly like our mart in Korea. EXACTLY. It’s weird. And freaky…Mainly freaky.
Then take our lunch at the weekend:
There’s also a Korean man who owns our mini-mart (he’s from Gwang-Ju and watches Korean soap operas on a small TV under the cash register), a Korean man who owns the liquor store (and sells Soju for $10 which should be a crime) and there were a bunch of Korean youths playing football in the car park opposite our house last week all yelling at each other in Korean. I felt like busting out my teacher-stare and my Kindergarten ‘shut up and be quiet’ in Korean phrases.
It’s sometimes hard to remember we DID actually leave Korea.
We did…
…Didn’t we?!
The Ketchup War 
This made me lol. I can’t believe there are E-Marts in Canada! Although it must be strange, it must also be nice to have a little bit of Korea so close.
Hahaha! It IS a little like being in a kinda Twilight Zone though. Middle of Calgary, a store exactly like the one in Korea. It freaks me out but it is nice to be still able to buy all the things I thought ‘I would never ever in my whole life ever see again’. lol!