A Random Visitor

One day a few weeks ago a lady knocked on my door. She was some sort of Buddhist from one of the mountains somewhere in the city. She asked me for a glass of water. Unfortunately I didn't have any water, but I was able to offer her some grape juice I had just purchased. I also did not have a clean glass so offered it to her in a bowl.

She was very grateful in spite of me not having water or that she had to drink out of a bowl instead. I apologized for the state of mess my apartment was in and we began to chat. She didn't speak a whole lot of English, but she knew enough and I was able to guess what she wanted to tell me by looking the word up in my dictionary and confirming if that was indeed what she was trying to say.

While we were chatting she mentioned another foreigner she had met named Richard. She showed me his card, and I had the same card. He actually had just replaced the other foreign teacher at my school. His school in Chilgok had closed down. It turns out she randomly knocked on his door as well, not once but twice...in the 2 different places that he lived! I found this very bizarre, but I imagine not nearly as bizarre as he did.

Eventually she told me she was collecting money for an orphanage so I gave her the change I had on my desk and apologized that thats all I had at the time.

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I realize I have been pretty lazy of late, having gone a little over 3 weeks without making an entry. It has not been because of a lack of adventure, especially pretty recently. Just laziness coupled with being busy with other things. I will try my best to make a few posts in the upcoming days, so if you check back soon you should have some more reading to do.