Korean Quickie – Japanese pornography
The class topic for today was Travel. I gave my students vocabulary like “Sightseeing,” and “Backpacking.” They learned the phrase, “The food here is exotic.”
After this I asked several of them to tell me what country they would like to go to and why. This is the exchange between me and a Mr. 백. With both of us smiling pleasantly I began.
Me: Okay, Mr. 백 so tell me what country you would like to go to and tell me why? For example, I would like to travel to Australia to go sightseeing. Now you.
Mr. 백: I would like to travel to Japan to see the porno.
Me: Porno… You want to go to Japan to see their porno?
Mr. 백: Yes teacher.
Me: … Porno?
…[CLICK TITLE TO READ MORE]…
Letter to a Stranger
Dear Person I Don’t Know,
As a kid I tried my best to stay away from mirrors.
My reflection stared back at me one day, and I realized that I was not very attractive: pimples, an overbite, twenty extra pounds. Made uncomfortable in my own skin, I smile when I remember my first attempt at love with a skinny brown girl I cared for, but didn’t know very well.
In her basement we each held the other and I forgot to feel nervous about my own nakedness – that feeling of having the eyes of the world on me.
Though you would know, if you knew me, that those years are still not completely gone. I still look in the mirror. I’m still not happy.
You would know too, if you knew me, that I saw in that girl an unreal perfection based on her real imperfections. Her gangly arms and legs held me tight and rubbed themselves against my skin with all the care I had assumed there would be from one who was supposed to love you.
…[CLICK TITLE TO READ MORE]…
