I shouldn't yawn, it isn't polite, and I am concentrating on that, but it is easier to concentrate on that if I rest my head on the back of the chair. I start to slouch in my seat.

"It's a banana," my wife explains.

The department smells strongly of roasted garlic. No. Even stronger. It smells of roasting garlic.

"Good if you're buying gold, not so good if you're buying flour." I have my hands in it after all– flour; not gold.

"Nutmeg." I repeat, perhaps a bit sheepishly. "That woman smelled like banana bread."

"So I took it to the old tailor lady near the park and asked her how much it would cost to alter it." she continues, "She's cheaper because she spilled Kim-chi on the shirt I took her last time."

This is how Koreans always respond when you didn't catch part of their sentence. The always just repeat the part you understood.

In Korea, everyone lives in a city, but everyone's parents live on a farm in their rural hometown.