21.08.08
The Koreans are coming!
OK strike that.
They’ve been. I’ve broken my CouchSurfing cherry.
Hyun, her boyfriend and a mate of theirs showed up at mine around 6.30 yesterday evening.
I actually had no idea how many people would be coming. My profile on CS.com says I can deal with 2 surfers at a time; Hyun’s original request didn’t state a number so I assumed 1. Her next message said “we” so I assumed more but I only discovered how many at, ooh about 6.30 yesterday.
Her English was good but the 2 guys didn’t speak it very well but they gamely had a go. Shame they wanted to talk about football. I’ve come to expect football talk. It’s an instant way of finding common ground and heaven knows there’s precious little of that between S.Korea and the UK.
I didn’t know what their plans were for the evening but it seems that they’d more or less stepped off their plane and got the bus here so they were more than a tad tired.
But they still made me a proper noodle dinner with weird fish and flattened sheets of proper seaweed – was actually rather nice.
Shortly after that they disappeared off to sleep.
I discovered this morning that they’d left my stove on overnight. I guess that gas hobs aren’t common there. They’d obviously tried to turn it off but didn’t figure the “press it in and turn” move to proper turn things off. Sigh, there goes my frugality re gas for the month.
Oh and their bedroom light has been on all day.
Tsk.
But all in all they were a nice bunch of folk and they’ve presented me with a rather swish looking bottle of Korean alcohol (rice wine I think).
[edit: just remembered their next bit of journey. I wanted to put this in because it's a beaut (as Tan would say). They're off up to Edinburgh. That's cool but they're going on a bus. That wouldn't be completely awful but they decided to go for cheap rather than practical. So they got the bus this afternoon. To London. Their bus will go this evening from there to Edinburgh. Urgh. What a bizarre route.]