Chapter 7: "I Think There Is Something Wrong with You."

Yesterday I hung out with one of the Korean teachers for the afternoon and evening. Before I left I had washed my hair and, having enough hair for about three people, I tend to shed a lot, especially when I wash it. It doesn't really detract from the volume or girth of my ponytail though.

I was sitting at my friend's computer with her, and we were talking about piercings, and I got up to show her the scar on my back from when I had my back pierced. She looked and said, "Oh!" and pulled a long hair off my shirt. A hair. So what. So I said, "Yeah, I just washed my hair, I shed a lot."

And then she pulled off another, and another, her eyes growing huge. She says, "I think there is something wrong with you!" I completely cracked up at this point; it's a little embarrassing to shed entire wigs on a weekly basis, but I'm not balding by any means, and anyone with really thick (long) hair will appreciate the loss.

I should mention my first exciting adventure with a squatty potty on Friday night. I'd never even seen one in real life, so it was quite a shocker to step into the stall. I was already a bit on edge from having to use a unisex bathroom with a urinal out in the open plus stalls. At least the stalls were labeled women and men. Anyways, when I saw it, I immediately realized my inexperience was going to be a problem.

Suffice it to say I managed, but I am not good at squatting. The other female foreign teachers insist that there need not be any entire removal of pants, but I experimented a bit, and I just don't see how that works. Plus I almost fell over.