Things a Canadian Boy and a Korean Girl have to fight about.

I've been meaning to write this post for a long time....

I was going to write it one time when we were actually fighting....but this is not my "rant about relationship problems" blog.....so this is more of an amusing cultural difference narrative......

Our first fight....apparently one cultural difference is the way that way that boyfriends/girlfriends act with other members of the opposite sex. Our first fight was she was scandalized because I went to Kyle and Amy's house with Amy after work to wait for Kyle who was getting off work soon, but not yet home. That and apparently I talked about Amy too much....like "this is Amy's favourite restaurant" or whatever. I have plenty of good reasons...generally you talk about common friends right, and they were the only two friends we had in common at the time, plus I worked with the girl everyday, and on top of that, I was avoiding overt anti-korea sentiments, which ruled out sharing most of Kyle's opinions :)

Anyway, next, one time I had some zit going on on my face, and she was like "whaat is that??" And all wanting to see....and that was super weird and awkward. Apparently, if you don't ask in Korea, that means you don't care. Needless to say that is kind of offensive in Canada.

Um, when Kyle and Amy left we said bye to them at the airport just before going on vacation....and I was sad when they left, of course.....but right after they left she was super pissed, like "how can you look so sad when you're with your girlfriend!?!" And I was like "whaaat?" You can imagine how much you'd want your girlfriend to flip out at you for looking sad after your friends fly home. So that was not a happy conversation. Anyways, Korean's keep stuff in a lot more, so apparently boyfriends wouldn't look uber sad in front of their girlfriends. Because that means the girlfriend is lacking or something....anyway... I was sad, but no offense to Kyle and Amy, but a hug, and probably 15 minutes later, I would have been thinking more about the tropical beaches that I was headed to next then about how much my life sucked without my friends.

Um....haha....this one is still not really funny.....we were on vacation and it ruined an entire 24hrs...for seemingly no reason....anyways....Jenny is one year older than me....which doesn't matter two shakes at home...but is somewhere between slightly and a bit unusual here...so anyway, we didn't have any gas in the car, and neither of us had cash either, and we were on vacation so we didn't know where any banks were.....and she always pays with a card anyway, so I said "why don't you just use your card...?" Makes perfect sense right? Right.

Followed by 24hrs of icecold stony silence. Which was a real blast on vacation let me tell you. Apparently here older girls that date younger boys...because they're older, it's like the boys are doing them a favour, so they can expect to be used for their money, and their boyfriends will tell them to use their credit cards. So she was feeling bad. And trying not to because she knew that wasn't true, and that was only a Korea thing...but anyway, that was super laaame.

Um, one time I was under a lot of stress, having just come back from a 5hr trip, trying to sort out passport details....and on my way to work....and I was trying to figure out how to call Canada on my phone, so I asked the operator, and she only gave me the code for Canada, and assumed that I knew the international prefix.....before the code....and I didn't.....so it didn't work....so I said something biting like "seriously, how hard is it tell me how to call Canada, that's her job! Stupid!" or something to that effect.....and she was all upset..."the lady's not stupid....you complain too much!" And that's exactly what tired stressed frustrated Matt needs to hear at that moment....riiight. I thought maybe it was the Korea factor, like she took it personally....but it wasn't....just same thing, Koreans tend to keep stuff in more and not complain that much openly, but I don't think anyone at home would have cared. Maybe....If the operator was your Mom or friend or something.....but otherwise it's just blowing off steam......

Maybe I'll write a part two sometime......but for now that's all I've got.......hopefully and interesting insight into things that a Canadian Boy and a Korean Girl have to fight about.......