Friday is finally here. I won't be here by Monday afternoon. I'll be "Leaving, on an Airplane" Like Hoon's favorite No Rae Bang song. I talked with some of my friends from Korea and they are excited to see me. I did not tell some friends that I was coming because I do not want to see them till the last day that I am there. Why? Because I do not want to go out with them at night. I will briefly meet them at lunch time and what not.
I am not really looking forward to this trip at all. Sure I want to see some friends. I just don't want to get drunk and be stupid. Like I always have been when I went there. Since I am on my diet, I feel like it would be stupid for me to see my Korean friends who are not so sensitive about things like diet. I can imagine my Hyungs saying "Diet? Namja ga Gu Run Guh Weh Hae! Mah Shu!" Meaning. "Diet? Why would a MAN need to do things like that? Drink!" I remember thinking Korea is great. Cause when you are a man, you can use that as an excuse for everything. As much as I love my motherland, Korea is such a male-centric society. And women are changing in Korea. There are women's groups and feminists that are standing up for what they believe in. Good for them. All I can say is that feminism is a reaction to chauvinism. As much as it displeases me to see femi-nazis, who can blame them. Serously, who can be more chauvinistic than the Korean men... Like me. Yeah I am a chauvinist. I can't help it. It's in my blood. A long line of Korean Lee's that lived a life of a chauvanistic man.... A Korean man. I remember girls at church being terrified of me and my chauvinistic ways. Thousands of years of the Lee blood line has made me not that different. But out of my line, I am the first male Lee that is a Christian. I don't know why God decided to smile down upon my monkey ass, but He has. And the Lord has been changing me. Very slowly I am changing. I must... Cause last person that I want to become, as much as I love him, is my dad.
So I hope this trip to Korea will be a good one for me. Just hangin' with da Fam and livin the life of a redeemed sinner.