My Korean Baby

Date: 10/15/2017

I have a friend from Korea, we’ll call her Jang-Mi. And every time we call her I try to speak in as much korean as possible. So in my dream I called Jang-Mi and she said she was coming to visit. Obviously I was so excited because this was the first time we would meet. So the day finally came and I was waiting at home when the doorbell rang. It was Jang-Mi....but as a baby. She had to be like two or something! For some reason I wasn’t surprised at all like I had always known that Jang-Mi was a toddler. The entire time she was over I spoke to her in korean. The ENTIRE time. She was a baby who didn’t understand English so whatever. This was normal. My friend Minho has come over as well with his nephew after I had told him about Jang-Mi. This was also a time for him to hear my korean. While I was talking to his nephew, Minho started laughing. “What?” I asked. “You’re speaking to him formally” ....Oh. It turns out I was switching honorifics back and forth. He kept teasing me! It was whatever. Minho suggested we go out to the park with the kids and it was a simple date. It felt like we were a family and even got some comments from old ladies. Of course I just took the misunderstanding. It would’ve been hard to explain that Minho was not my husband, his nephew wasn’t our kid, and Jang-Mi was my pen pal from korea not my baby. I then got a call from my BTS friends about visiting them and they live where Jang-Mi lives. So I packed up my Korean baby and left.