Friday, March 16, 2007

Do what the Romans do...


Korean Class
Originally uploaded by Parlin's Picture Gallery.


Korean Class
Originally uploaded by Parlin's Picture Gallery.
Today I got an encouragement words from one of my Colleague back in Hempel Indonesia, Mr. Jun Tabia. He said, ""if you are in Rome, do what the Romans do". In countries like Korea and Japan, English is not really a popular language. They prefer to use their own language even when they know they are actually talking to foreigners like myself. Another problem is that they have their own set of letters, so it completes all, I cannot converse with them and also cannot read their writing. So I can only depends on body language, back to the stone-age language...hahahhaha...
One time, I asked a bus going to Gyeongsan and to my surprise they also have Gyeongsang, and they are far apart. What I did is, I ask for the price, and make sure I went to the right direction.
I guess Pak Jun was right, I have to do what the romans do for me to survive in Rome. Therefore I took Korean Class. I know its gonna be difficult, but I have to do it.
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4 comments:

ria kartika said...

sometimes we dont have to do what the romans do,,,in case if we make some mistakes and making people angry, just say,,,sorry i dont speak korean, i dont get what you've said,,... :D and tarraaaaa,,,all problems will be solved,,,

9:22 AM
Parlin said...

well not all problems can be solved by saying I don't speak korean, how about if you going somewhere and you are lost, and surround you is people who can;t speak english and all words are written in hangul...

6:19 PM
ria kartika said...

i didnt mention that part,,hahaha just bcoz you've lost in your first trip hahaha,,,

8:04 PM
Parlin said...

No i didn't lost my way, i just dun know where to go..hehehe..Its just more convinient for me if I can communicate with people surround me...let me take an example, one of my lecture is in Korean, and the text book is also in korean..can u imagine what will i do during the lecture?...

8:09 PM

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