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Who is a no mad at heart like me?

I was born in Seoul and taught to hate Japan at school.
First foreign country I visited and lived was Japan and I fell in love with their food, politeness of people.❤️
Hong Kong was great in 80’s, I lived there for 1 year.

UK- my first culture shock and hurt a lot from British people.
Food is boring, weather is horrible and I survived there for 15 years and left for good.
People used to ask me— Do you have chocolate in your country? It was 90’s.

I lived in Germany for 3 years and fell in love with their food, warm hearted people.
They are very polite and honest. ❤️
They treated me as a human being, after hell experience in the UK, Germany was heaven for me.
Germans were kind and friendly even though I didn’t speak German.

Now I’m living in America for 9 years.
America was my dream place when I was young and I learned English because of music and films.
So far so good but I want to explore other country soon.
When I imagine with picture image, my dreams come true easily.
I don’t feel I belong to a certain country, I lost Korean passport 35 years ago so I always feel I’m earthling.
I want to make friends who feels like me.

I’m here to connect with people globally and get to know their humor and their fun interests and good taste of music.
After all I learned English through music and film from young, mostly self taught first.
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I like your reference to culture shock. I experienced it in 1970 when as a young G.I. I arrived in South Korea. I came away with two mental impressions: Yes, the land of the Morning Calm and the Land of Heartbreak. I returned in 1974 doing a second tour of duty there. An experience that will always be a part of me.
skybubble20 · 56-60, F
@soar2newhighs thank you for your service 😊. It’s no more the land of morning calm for long time. It’s always changing so quickly and chaotic, when I got back after 16 years, even some Korean alphabet changed and people teased me as a North Korean spy because I used the old style alphabet. 🤣
@skybubble20 Returning to the air base one morning, I was passing a scene I’ll not forget: to my left, a steep hill with many trees. It was very early, the sun was slightly over the top of the hill, and it’s rays were penetrating the gentle light mist that hugged the trees. To me that symbolized “ morning calm”.
skybubble20 · 56-60, F
@soar2newhighs that sounds like peaceful and sweet moments. I grew up in Seoul and I didn’t get a chance to see other country province when young. But now many places look like city itself there now.