A week has passed very quickly. Last night, we went out with Denke and Peter and a few other colleagues of theirs to a Korean restaurant next to Lotte. They have both short tables where people sit on the floor to rooms you take off your shoes to dine around a regular height table. We chose the latter.
The food was good. Both Leo and I had fish and we shared a beef rib soup. They came with the regular side dishes and a bowl of rice. Peter ordered some barbeque beef intestines. They cooked it in the barbeque right on the table. It looks pretty good but tasted kind of bland. In the middle of the meal, Denke left. He was not feeling well and felt dizzy. He went to the hospital the day before for the same thing. I don’t think the doctor found anything even though they performed lots of tests. I hope he is ok. He thought it might be a middle ear infection. Hope he’ll find the Korean student to go with him to the doctor’s and get some medicine today. We leave tomorrow, so he needs to be well to travel.
He has been on the roard for a month now. I don’t know how he could handle that. It’s all business for him too, no slacking or touring. The trips may sound good but not as glamorous as they seem.
We’ll be leaving Jeju tomorrow and go to Taipei to visit mom and do some sightseeing and eat some great food. I am looking forward to the food and I’m sure mom would be glad to see us. But I worry what kind of impact it will make on her this time after we leave. She was not talking or eating for a couple of weeks last time I visited her. It makes me worry a lot. I also hope that I’ll be able to find the places Leo wants to go too. I’m just like a tourist in Taiwan now. I don’t know how to get around and have very poor sense of direction. It’ll be an adventure I guess.
I’ll be happy when we get back home. Other than traveling in the US, I feel very out of place and stuck. Even in Taiepi where I grew up in and can speack the language, I used to just stay in the hotel and watch tv when I was not visiting mom. I don’t know how all of them handle the day to day life without a car and have to take buses or subways to go anywhere. Every time I go back, I feel the body getting older each time. It would take longer for me to get over the jetlag, my body would ache, and my legs can’t hold me for the long walks I have to take every day.
Hmmm, and people like to travel!!!