Summer camp is finished which is cool. I have tomorrow off, as does U-rim, we were suppose to go to the Sea of Japan (aka East Sea), but I doubt that’s going to come to pass. Right now I’m still in turmoil. I love U-rim, and to paraphrase my mother, “I don’t hate her family, I just hate the way they are acting.”
Something in this scene needs to change and it needs to do so quickly. I thought I could deal with her family, but this is not really your garden variety hatred of the white man…it’s more. So I really don’t know what to do. The thing that bugs me the most is the fact that U-rim is using her family’s “Koreaness” as an excuse for their racism and does little to stick up for me or herself. I know her children are suppose to honor their parents, but there’s a point when the child needs to do what is best for them…I dunno, I’m just venting again.
