I’ve been a little stunned that there have been a few people here who’ve automatically started talking to me in English. One restaurant greeter later told me it’s because he doesn’t speak Korean, but as for the others…I’ve wondered why. Is it because they’ve heard me speak to someone else? Do my clothes give it away? Or do Americans have a certain walk?
Yesterday’s McDonald’s cashier may have given me the answer. “When I saw your eye makeup, I knew you weren’t from here,” she told me. “It looks different than what girls here wear.” She wasn’t being catty, just conversational. Still, I wondered if my MAC eyeshadows branded me a foreigner (or worse, a hussy). I mean, I had noticed that girls and women here rarely wear eye makeup, and for that reason, I’d been keeping my greens and blues to a minimum.
The color of choice yesterday was light purple. I don’t know the name of it because the sticker came off the bottom of the container. I think I’ll start calling it not-Korean purple.
(and here’s what my makeup looked like yesterday)
This doesn’t even look like you! Maybe it’s the eye makeup…
love that you took a photo of the eye make up. love you!
girl, so a bunch of korean journalists came to visit as part of a state dept program this week. and the international hospitality association hooked them up with me, of course, because I was Asian. YESSS!! Anyway they were cool. They spent an hour bashing Bush.
Hahaha…you all crack me up! And geez, Elise, I thought all Asians knew each other?