Good Day

It is pretty cool that you got Angela's computer, and also pretty cool that you changed it from Turkish. I don't know why she didn't do that earlier.

My computer is definitely a boy. I don't know why I haven't named it yet. I haven't even thought about it, which is weird because I named my car (Oliver) and my coffee maker (Harold). It just never came up. It says TOSHIBA on it really big though, so I feel like I should give it a really good Japanese first name to complete it. You work with what you have. My coffee maker is of the Mr.Coffee brand, so it was pretty much just begging to be named.

Today might be the best day ever. At school, I mean. I have a lot of Best Days Ever at home, but they don't happen very often at school, just because, you know, it's school. I am already done with classes and the tree outside our window is suddenly blooming and leafing out at the same time. Everyone is showing off their sunburn, so I guess I'm not a unique snowflake after all. I am going to go to the bookstore later today with my fingers crossed to get that book I have to have for class tomorrow. I am beginning to be pretty paranoid that the Sudden Asian Educational Principles are going to come down pretty hard on me because I tend to waltz through class in an interpretive state of mind, which probably won't go down well. We'll see.

I know what you mean about swearwords in other languages. It's not the words themselves that are hard to understand, it's how much weight they're given in the culture. So 씨발 might always be translated into the f-word, but from what I can tell it carries about the same weight in Korea as saying "dammit" in America. I don't know. Swearwords aren't the weapon of choice over there. They have much, much more dire ways to be obscenely rude, whereas in America we are unimaginative and therefore attach all this power to a few ugly words that are just synonyms to bodily functions.

I am looking at Big Bang merchandise. It is hard to find anything good so maybe I won't be tempted.

-Amy