There is a dominant gene in most humans that causes a strong upsetting emotion when we stay in bed all day. That gene is what causes us to justify the smallest action as an accomplishment, allowing us to return to our state of rest. Therefore, creating a place as similar too but different from the initial location and position is the best alternative, allowing our natural lethargic tendency to reign while also feeling a sense of achievement.
In layman’s terms: Most people hate stayin in bed all day but we like to be lazy. The invention of the couch allows us to lay around all day and do nothing (as if we had stayed in bed all day) but we’re not in bed, not even in the same room. So we feel like we’ve done something (gotten up and moved to a different room) when really we didn’t. And if our need to feel accomplished has been met than why do anything else.
Now that I don’t have a couch I’m finding all kinds of fun things to do, like spend and hour and a half dissecting and scrubbing the inside and outside of my fridge. I also spent at least another hour going through 100s of pictures on my computer. I reorganized and deleted some. I washed all the dishes that were left by the previous scholar, made a video of my house and finally went outside to get internet. My mentor teacher still hasn’t contacted me, nor have I gotten in touch with my mom. I did go down the street to see if I could find the fam from yesterday. I found their house but didn’t see anyone. I went to the place my mentor showed me the first day and managed to order Kimbop all by myself. I ate and watched youtube videos that Nate had on the ipod (I miss him). The meal was a dollar. Totally beats Subway! Then walked down a few new roads. I’ve been trying to cover a new block a day so I get used to my area. I found the police station and some kinda English classroom or something. And this really cute store that had everything cute in it! They had super cute earrings (I’m going back soon to buy a pair), hair clips, ties, bows, scarves, stuffed animals, pens, paper, notebooks, cups, hats, everything with cartoons and cute stuff on them. I bought notebooks for the kids down the street and a deck of cards for me.
I ran into the kids later (they were going to get ice cream). The fam took me out to dinner! In celebration of the mom and lil bro’s bday. The lil boy Kevin is 7 years old and is so so so cute! He laughs at everything. He held my hand the whole way to the restaurant and back. He pushed his sister out of the way so he could sit next to me. The girls played with me a lot too. They’re all so nice. We had bbq pork, really good, a ton of side dishes as usual and so much food! The kids kept eating ice cream and they got us all some when we finished eating. The dad got 2 bottles of soju that the three of us ‘adults’ polished off. On the way back I had to individually pinky promise the kids that I’d be at their house at 10am tomorrow for seaweed soup and cake lol. Happy Korean Birthday ! lol.
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