Monsters (Big Bang fanfiction)

Sunday May 10th 2015

안녕하세요 journal !

I love Sundays. Ok, usually I don't but I think I will from now on ;P Do you know why? Because I had the proof today that even to the last day, a s#**y week still has a chance to become one of the coolest ever!

When I woke up that morning and realized I hadn't closed the rolling shutter the night before, I grunted when the 10 am sun hurt my eyes, all tangled in the sheets and my hair in a mess. However, as I blinked to get used to the bright daylight that first made me see everything in blue, I realized I wasn't alone. Five silhouettes were facing me against the morning light, waiting. After a while, when I was able to see them from head to toe and smiled at them when I saw what they looked like, they grinned. They were all dressed in the outfits we had bought. It turns out they were not as dirty as I thought yesterday. However, since they were not aware of how it worked, some of them had the wrong pants and shirt size and, though some of them were wearing the right item, it was backwards, which made me laugh a little. They didn't look psychopathic or dangerous anymore; they just looked cutely stupid X) Aside from that, it fitted them perfectly, which made me glad.

"We are sorry. We want make right." G-Dragon declared and did the best he could to articulate every word properly.

It was actually pretty good. The four others seemed to really believe in what he was saying too. So I decided to give them my answer. I gestured them to wait a second and typed something on my keyboard on Google Translation before I turned to them again.

"알았어" I replied. "직장에서 !"*

* "Ok." "Then let's get down to work!" (I think it means that– I hope o_O)

When they heard my reply, they looked at me surprised and tilted their heads lightly. I thought my own accent was too clumsy and they didn't understand me. However, I was glad to see them suddenly smile again and nod. I think I was not that bad either ^^

And so we just spent the rest of the day doing what we should have done from the beginning: talking and learning. English for them, Korean for me. It was hard at first, especially since most of them had not spoken in years. However, their progress then increased quickly, just like everything they do ever since they got their first shot of SB. Now, there are so many things we can say without looking for the word for three hours! Introduce ourselves, comment on something, order stuff at the restaurant... Yeah, although my computer says we will, I'm not sure we will use that kind of vocabulary soon -_- Most of all, I can finally say "hello", "please", "good night", "thank you", "sorry"... I'm glad I can use that with the boys from now on.

As for me, I taught them their English equivalent as well as some more... colorful language like "F you" and "Cut the C"... What? It's always useful under any circumstance XP ! Furthermore, they were more than happy to teach me their Korean equivalent. Actually, I'm surprised they knew them and I'm starting to wonder if they were really that good when they were kids since there is no way they could have learned it from the American scientists 

Speaking of bad words, I love the fact that Asians should never say "no" directly when they are asked something yet in Korea, when a friend teases you, it's totally okay to ask him if he wants to die XD

I also learned about Konglish,with words like cheeseburger being pretty much translated as 치즈 버거and sounds like "chee-su-buh-guh" as well as 화이팅which sounds like "Hwaiting" and means "Fighting!". This is officially my newfavorite word ^3^. 

Actually, today, thanks to both the boys and the internet, I realized a lot of the tensions I felt around Korean people, both on my side and theirs, were mostly due to some cultural misunderstandings!