Mogies
Posted by Kathryn on 13th June and posted in Home Life, Korea, Korean Vocabulary
Your Korean Word of the Day is…
Mogie
In English…
Mosquito
I’m getting eaten alive by the mosquitoes here. I have a dozen bites on my right arm, six on my left, three on my forehead and god only knows how many on my legs. I have no idea how they’re getting in my apartment as I sleep with the windows shut and the air conditioner on low. Although I have the windows open during the day, they do have screens. And I didn’t have nearly as many bites when I went to bed as when I woke up this morning.
Thankfully I have some hydrocortisone cream courtesy of my mother’s friend, Mrs. Peters. So I’ve been putting that on the bites. And I’m trying my best not to scratch, but it seems Korean mosquito bites itch even more than American mosquito bites.
Some of my students were talking about how bites they have. Most have one or two. They then remarked how many I have. I just told them that I’m extremely sweet. And that’s why the mosquitoes like to bite me.
Time to get a mosquito net then? Although you do have to check every night if nothing got under there, or got in with you when you went to bed.
If at least you can keep your eyes open for that long, after having been prodded, poked and run around all day long. ;)
So what’s your daily schedule?