sit-ups | chair-lifts |
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100 | 0 |
Breakfast, lunch & dinner = December 7 |
It may seem like a
small and petty thing to be upset about item delivery but when you can only
order in receive certain things on certain days of the week it makes all the
difference in the world.
For example, the
fallout from Wednesday means I couldn't order coffee. Now, you're saying “so,
what's the big deal?”
This means I have to
wait until today to order more, which means I won't actually get it until next Tuesday,
4 days from now, plus the two days that just passed. That's six days, in case
you happened to have failed grade 1 math. 6 days without coffee produces the
headaches I have suffered from since yesterday and also means no breakfast
since that's all I have other than rice, kimchi and soup.
In addition, last
Monday, 5 days ago, I ordered a bar of laundry soup. This should have been
delivered Wednesday. It wasn't delivered yesterday either. So that means I
don’t have any soup to wash my socks, underwear or undershirt. Arguably the
stinkiest of all laundry.
On Tuesday, I ordered
snacks that should have been delivered yesterday along with my soap that should
have been delivered the day before if it wasn't a holiday...
I was told it would be
delivered today-- Friday. Now you're all saying “so, what's the big deal? You’ll
get everything today... “ But, it wasn't delivered.
The bigger deal is I
ordered snacks on Tuesday specifically to receive the snacks delivered on
Thursdays because the snacks available on each day are different. I don't want
Korean shrimp-flavoured chips. I hate shrimp-flavoured chips or octopus or
squid or any chips that taste vaguely like fish. Chips are made with potatoes,
but not in this fucking country! And especially not in this damned jail full of
Koreans. If I get all of my items I ordered on Monday and Tuesday, which is
only soap, notebooks and snacks, the kind of soap and notebooks are unimportant,
but I'll be forced to buy snacks I wouldn't eat if you gave them to me let alone pay for them out of my own very limited
funds.
It may seem small and petty to be upset, but
at this point, getting the items I ordered is the most important, exciting part
of my day. I have nothing else to look forward to. I'm in a small room with
nothing to do but sleep and if I try to do that, the guard comes and bangs on
my door to wake me up because I'm not allowed to sleep during the day.
All the other inmates
can read or watch TV, but I can't because all the books and TV are in Korean,
so what am I supposed to do? Not liking Korean dramas or rice or fish flavored
chips always produces the same reaction—“Are you crazy? Everybody likes rice,
kimchi and soup for breakfast... Or rice at every single meal...”
If by ‘everybody’ you mean every Korean in Korea
or everybody in this prison, I'd like to point out one very important critical
fact that’s been overlooked-- I'm not a goddamned fucking Korean!
And they're pretty fond
of pointing that out when I try to adapt and understand—“Oh, you're not Korean.
You wouldn't understand what ‘Han’ means,” but real quick to forget when I
refuse to do things their way-- “you're in Korea! You do things Korea way!”
I've met some really
nice cool individuals, but as a group (and this is actually true with most
groups) this country homogeneous people leave a lot to be desired. And before
the argument starts I've lived, worked and made a lot of money off of this
country, I came here and started that way, but I haven't made any money off of
Koreans in almost 3 years. 90% of my clients are foreigners and 90% of the 10%
left over are Korean-Americans. The only thing Korea has done for me lately is
take my money-- not provide it.
Forcing the taxpayers
to pay for my fines, feed and house me, is my way of sticking it to the Man.
But if I have to follow their rules, shouldn't they have to follow their own
rules too? If no one follows the rules, we have corruption and anarchy-- and
corruption is one of the biggest problems with this country-- along with
motorcycles driving on the sidewalk, a high vehicle fatality rate and the
second highest rate (after Japan) of suicide in the OECD
There's a downside to
Korean media touting is horn every time Korea is mentioned in the Western media.
I learn all the bad things as well as all the Hallyu.
I can't wait to get
out of here just so I can find something else to write about other than Koreans.
Sometimes, I actually quite like the people and things here, but you could
never have guessed that from these rants...
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