I was once chatting with a woman who
is a close friend of mine, we were talking about funny experiences and then she
told me this particularly amusing story.
She began to tell me she had an
uncle who was a doctor, hence, every time she was sick or suffering any pain
her uncle checked her and gave her meds. Naturally, she had never been to a
hospital or any kind of doctor´s appointment before. Although, getting a checkup of
our bodies is necessary at some point of our lives and we wouldn’t feel
comfortable if some of our relatives has to do it. Anyway, the time to go to
the doctor had come, the woman was pregnant and it was imperative for her to go
to the gynecologist.
Once in the doctor´s office, my
friend was told to get off her clothing, put on a robe and place herself on the
stretcher to wait for the doctor to come. She took off her shirt, skirt, and
bra and put them on a chair located beside the stretcher… her panties…well, she
took them off and put them in her purse. She put on the robe and located herself
(in the way she thought it was correct) on the stretcher. When the doctor came
into the room, he started to laugh and called the nurses to see the hilarious
scene. My friend was lying on the stretcher in a completely wrong position.
You´ll see, the gynecologist stretchers have some kind of support rails where women are supposed to put their legs, they also have like a padding hole
where the women butt rests during the pelvic exam. The girl was lying face down
with her face on the padding hole and her arms in the legs supports. As soon as my friend realised about her mistake she felt
so stupid lying there, and got so mad with the doctor for calling more people
to laugh at her that she kicked out everybody of the room, got dressed, took her
purse and went out of the doctor’s office. When she was in the elevator, she
felt how a cold wind went through her legs, then she remembered her panties
were still inside her purse.
Thanks for your letter and I’m glad
that you´ve been doing so great lately. Actually, I have something to tell you
and it´s awesome, by the way. As you might recall, I put a lot of effort in the
assignment about comparisons we had for your class. I wrote about cats vs.
dogs, do you remember? Well, I thought my text was good, so I used it to take part
of a pet magazine contest. The magazine have must thought my text was great
too, because I won the contest. It´s so cool because the prize was a free trip
for a month to a Korean island named Jeju.
Two weeks ago the contest sponsors
gave me the tickets to the flight, introduced me with the person who is going
to be my tourist guide and explained to me some last details. Everything has
been crazy since then, I´ve been saying goodbye to friends and relatives and
organizing some documents. I also have been planning my schedule there: I’m going
to arrive at Incheon Airport next Wednesday by the night. Once I am there, I
will travel to Jeju Island on a ferry and since the sponsors suppose I’m going
to be very tired I am going to be taken to the hotel right away.
The next day will be very relaxed
because I´m going to have planned only two main activities; I´m going to do a
guided visit to the Jeju National Museum. The visit will be quite interesting
since it has this big exposition about Joseon Dynasty that has been described
around the world as authentic and redefining. The other activity is to visit a
huge, beautiful building which is like a grand example of traditional Korean
architecture, I have seen pictures of it and I can´t wait to see it with my own
eyes: it seems gorgeous. I think that day is going to be a little overloaded
with information because of all the things I will learn in the museum and all
the history that the traditional building might have to offer, that is why I
hope to be very energetic and well-prepared. At night I´m planning to relax so
I will go to a nice spa near the beach.
One of the multiple things I am
enthusiastic for is the nature day (How I renamed it since I knew which
activities were going to be then). In that occasion, my touristic guide and I
are going to go hiking, the idea is walk round some particular places in the
island which are pretty special, those sites are the living proof of greatness
of nature. We will walk along Yongduam
Rock. Yongduam Rock is the name of the place where is located a dragon
head-shaped rock which was created as a result of the solidification of flowing
lava. You’ll see, Jeju is a volcanic island so it´s filled with a lot of
volcanic remains and lava formations; we will try to see as much as we can of
those amazing archaeological remains and wonders. The second part of this
nature day will be the visit to the Jeju Roe Deer Observation Center, this
place is kind of a zoo but only with deer, we will be able to see a great
number of deer gathered in one big field, I´m hoping to see them acting naturally
and having fun; I have a lot of expectations about it because I have never seen
those animals and I think they´re really cute. Our encounter with nature is
supposed to be ending in the Jeongbang Waterfall, my tourist guide told me that
this place is marvelous. I´m getting happy right now just to think about that
waterfalls, here is a picture of them.
Jeju Roe Deer Observation Center
Well, teacher, I am so glad to tell
all these great things I will have the chance to see and do that I could keep
writing about them for hours but I know by now you are probably a little
jealous and don´t want to continue reading, hehe, so I´m telling you the last
and cooler things I´m going to do. For my last week in Jeju Island I have
booked visits to three touristic places I considered important: The Chocolate
Museum, The Teddy Bear Museum and The Jeju Loveland. Let me explain to you, I´m
going to start with the Chocolate Museum, it´s pretty obvious, I mean, is a
museum of chocolate, I know there are a lot of museums like this around the
world, it´s just that I have never gone to one so I thought this could be a
good opportunity. People say the museum explains lots of interesting history of
ancient methods for producing chocolate and that it also has a “Christmas room”
(which I don´t what it is, but I´m certainly going to find out), the museum is
one of the ten best chocolate museums in the world and it has a room with
the personal collection of the museum director as well.
Now, The Teddy Bear Museum: is the
biggest museum of its kind. It was the largest collection of teddy bears
produced in the last 100 years and many famous-international bears representing
well-known characters around the world as The Mona Lisa or the giant from the
novel Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift. I was just checking pictures of
those teddy bears and I´m quite sure that I will freak out when I see all the
cuteness in those soft tiny toys. :)
THE CHOCOLATE MUSEUM
THE TEDDY BEAR MUSEUM
Last but not least I will tell what
Jeju Loveland is. Well, it is a park dedicated to the art of sexuality. I still
think is weird such a theme park is located on an island in South Korea given
its tendency to be so closed-minded when we refer to relationships but I think
there must have to be a reason for that and I will find it, or perhaps it could
happen that I learn more about Korean culture and my point of view of their
thoughts and beliefs change. Anyway, here some pictures from the park I found
online.
My dear teacher, I hope you have had
fun by reading my letter and I really expect you are happy for me too. I will
come by the University to bring you my very fun characteristic present from
Jeju Island. Bye.
