Guy update

Guy #1 -Mr. Engineer

Is shockingly still around. I will call him Mr. Engineer from now on. 

Like he’ll message here and there. His two co-workers will message also in the group message. He mentioned how everyone seems to speak great English except him. Then for a week or two he didn’t say anything. 

Suddenly, the other weekend he was asking about what books for English should he buy. I actually had a list from the last time I went to the bookstore, but I was going back that day anyways to look again. I took pictures of two books that I was going to buy, because if he is going to use it I need to know it also. He ordered them before I walked out of the bookstore. 

He calls every evening when he has time to practice. Shockingly his English has improved a lot. Like a ton. He was studying in his free time. Also, his job is putting pressure on him to speak English. He was moved to another section and will need it to move further up the corporate ladder. Talking about shocking someone. So that explains why his was MIA for awhile. 

The funny thing is talking to him on the fun is pretty fun. We laugh a lot. Which I found shocking too. So many surprises Mr. Engineer. So many.

Guy #5-Mr. Shy

He shall be called Mr. Shy from now on.

 I actually hung out with him today. Today’s his birthday so he just turned 27 (28 Korean age). 

He was talking about how he was worried with North Korea doing threats because even though he finished his military service, all the men are part of the reserved forces when they finished. Meaning they can be called in to fight in an instant, and with him having experience at the DMZ he would be one of the first ones called in. 

But yeah, it was good seeing him again, though he seemed even more shy this time. 

And there’s another guy I will call…

 Fruit Stand Guy

I was walking to the subway station last week trying to catch the bike train. They have certain trains where they are made for a ton of bikers. It’s hard to catch these trains. As far as I know they don’t tell you when they are coming through. I knew about this one because I barely missed it a few days before and remembered what time it was. Half of it has individual seats where bikes can be put in between them. I LOVE THESE TRAINS so freaking much. You can sit down and have a ton of space. Just beautiful.

Anyways, I was walking when someone was calling me. Not by my name but hearing someone yell out and I had that feeling it was for me but wasn’t sure. I was like “Is someone trying to catch my attention? Can’t be. Whatever I want to catch this train today.” So, I kept walking. Then someone ran and stopped me. 

It was the guy that owns the new fruit stand store thing. I don’t know what to really call it, all he sells are fruits though. He asked if I was a teacher and blah blah blah. I’m like yeah, why? 

He wanted to talk, I didn’t because I had my day planned out, first to catch that lovely train. He wanted to practice English for a week and 2 days, asked for my number. I left it and was like “yeah sure, ok.” I barely caught the train. Barely. I swear.

Anyways, a few days later, last Sunday he called saying he had free time. It’s like alright whatever, I’ll give it a go. Then he kept pushing time back. By now, you guys should know how I am about time. Two minutes late bothers me, if you tell me before hand, you left on time or early and it’s something you can’t control then ok. But anything other than that I get highly upset, because I am there and now my time is being wasted. I hate my time being wasted. I don’t do it to you, do not do it to me. So I told him, no I’ll be home and I won’t come back out again. I already came home once and went out, I rarely do that. I will not give another chance. So I started walking home since his store is less than 10 minutes walking. He was all “No, no no I’m coming.” He popped up in no time.

Coming to find out he wasn’t saying the time right and that’s where the miscommunication happened. It was one of his friend’s birthday and yada yada yada. It’s like why did you call me then? Anyways, we went to a convenience store, you can buy things and sit outside them to talk. We talked. He’s going to the Philippines in exactly a month from today actually. He owns land there and wants to communicate with his workers. That’s why he wants to practice English.

He asked my age, he’s 35. I don’t know how I feel about that. Age is important to me because there’s a very fine line of being a decent age gap to ok now you are closer to my parents’ ages than mine. Being 10 years older than me is only 9 years younger than my mom and 10 years younger than my dad. See what I mean? I’m I don’t want the guy to be closer in age to my parents than to me. That creeps me out just a tad. It’s not his fault nor mine. Just the way it is.

But, at the same time, what if I do happen to fall in love with a guy that’s 9-11 years older? I think as long as we work out and want the same thing and he treats me well, there shouldn’t be any problem. Hmm…So much to think about.

He’s also shorter than me though. I don’t know his height but I know it has to be under 170cm. He’s a certified PE teacher though he doesn’t do that now, did his military of course. He was all “Call me oppa.” I’m like um…nah I’m cool. He then was like “If you need anything, someone bothers you, someone wants to fight, you have a problem, need money, just call me ok?” Again, I just sat there like “Um…nope that’s ok. I can handle things on my own.”

Asked if I was married. Which is like nope. Then, asked if I had a boyfriend. Again no. 

He was too happy with that. Then admitted that he liked me. He saw me pass a lot and thought to himself “Oh, she’s really pretty.” But didn’t know what to say to me, until that day he stopped me it seems.

I nearly choked on my beer. He asked what I thought about him. Even asked me to be his girlfriend.

I know. WHAT?!

I told him I don’t just date people I don’t know. -.-

Is that what people do?! My goodness. I need to know some stuff about you first before I can date you. 

He accepted it, though you can tell it bothered him a bit. He was like “Ok, we can be friends. Even if you get a boyfriend I’ll be your friend. Though I will be slightly upset it’s not me.”

At least he was honest.

He asked about my job and if I will go home when my contract ends. He apparently decided that he doesn’t want me to leave Korea. Telling me to stay 10+ years from now. Talking about the friends he has in high places in the education offices. I’m like “It’s ok, really. Don’t worry about it.” 

Let everything happen naturally. Good grief.

He wants to hang out this Sunday. 

I don’t even know what my life has become. It’s like a messy k-drama haha. I just want one decent guy. One~ Like if you put these 3 together and make it into one guy maybe. But any of them right now I just don’t know. I’m not feeling much of anything. 

Now for me to enjoy the weather, some food, and relax. Going to a concert tomorrow. ^.^

Until next time~