korean dinner

3 out of the 4 foreign students' families stay here at meguro-ku... and all 3 families are neighbours... we being sandwiched between them...

before kim-san's (korean) wife and daughters arrived on sunday... we have been inviting him over for meals occasionally... so once his family arrived... they invited us for dinner last night...

dinner was a simple meal of rice cakes in soup... there's a special name but i simply cannot remember la... then there were at least 7 different types of kimchi on the table...

it was quite an experience for me and the gals... but glad they tried to at least finish their bowl of rice cakes... and even had black bean rice... =)

what is more interesting about the dinner was the conversations shared over the table...

here's who at the table...
kim-san... speaks korean and jap... little english...
kim-san's wife... speaks only korean... very little jap and english...
hubby... speaks english and limited jap...
me... speaks only english... very little jap...

hubby was like the official translator... so proud of him...

if kim-san wants to tell me something... he has to tell hubby... and hubby tells me... vice-versa...

what's more interesting... is when kim-san's wife wanna tell me something... she tells kim-san... kim-san then translates to jap to hubby... and then hubby translates to english for me...

then hubby tells kim-san that i could show his wife around... i was like... huh..? how to talk..? so stressful... see how la... =P

but it was an enjoyable night... the gals played well with his gals... =)