Which is why it was so astounding that I sat down on Bhudda's birthday at Samkwangsa temple in Busan and began crafting a little lantern. What can I say...I was swept away in the awesomery around me. We opted to visit the least foreigner-infiltrated temple for the holiday, and it was perfect. Hundreds of thousands of lanterns surrounded us, we sat in on some of the monks performing their ceremonies, people were all smiles, the weather was perfect, and then we saw....lantern making stations. I was weirdly all about it.
We bebopped over and diddy'd up some little lanterns made out of crepe paper and cups, all the time surrounded completely by papparazzo's. The only downside to going where there are no other foreigners is the amount of attention you receive from locals. Approximately 938578415785608 cameras were in our faces taking twice as many photos of us and our creations. So naturally when an ajumma motioned for me to hand over my lantern, I assumed it was because she was going to swoon over it/me. Also, you just don't say no to an ajumma. I only do if I'm holding a large umbrella or something to protect myself with.
Anyway. The hand over of my lantern occurred. The swooning did not. She jetted. WITH MY LANTERN. We were astounded. After about 20 minutes of "surely she's coming back," reality set in....I got thieved. The ajumma was a bad-jumma.
In a whole year, my ladies, who are ridiculously crafty people (seriously - they have actually set aside whole days for crafting together), witnessed me willingly delve into a project. I'm gonna say I must have done a pre-ttay bangin' job with it if it warranted a steal. But, um. I'll also probably never craft again. I've been bad-jumma-maged. <---read: bad-ajumma-damaged....drumroll, please and ah-thank you.
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1 comment:
Oh noes!! Not a badjumma!! The regular ones can be scary enough thank you!
Sorry your maiden crafting session got hijacked.....but at least you got a funny blog post out of it, so there's your silver lining!
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