Cologne, Germany
06:30 Local time
I finally feel like a human being again. I have never experienced such jetlag in my life. It is now about half an hour until full sunrise here. My aunt and uncle have been nothing but wonderful. It has been about 2 years since our last meeting. I have always fantasized about their lives here in foreign land since I was a young lad. I remember all those times both would visit us in America…it was always around my grandmothers birthday. Before I go further into their lives, I need to explain a couple things.
Yong….first name of all of my aunts and uncles…Let’s see, my father’s only younger sibling…she happens to be the youngest Lee in the family. My earliest memory of her is a little vague. I just recall after meeting her, there was no doubt in my mind that she’s a strain of our family blood line. She looked almost identical to my father. Her smile, her mannerisms, and her sense of Lee humor…it was all there…just 6 years younger, more vibrant, and full of energy…but something was always different about her. I think it has to do with the fact that she decided to move to Germany at a tender age of twenty one to study abroad…she was always different to me…in a cool euro 1970’s hippie love child kind of way.
Being the youngest of 6 must have been tough on her…all the focus has been with the male siblings in her family anyways…but times in Korea were different then. I’m only assuming this but I think since my father and her are the two bottom feeders of the family, I would like to think they have a special bond together. It’s eerie to me how similar they are to each other. Perhaps this is the reason for her being such a great aunt to a nephew of her immediate brother…either way…I couldn’t go on this journey without her and I am eternally grateful that she is here…
06:30 Local time
I finally feel like a human being again. I have never experienced such jetlag in my life. It is now about half an hour until full sunrise here. My aunt and uncle have been nothing but wonderful. It has been about 2 years since our last meeting. I have always fantasized about their lives here in foreign land since I was a young lad. I remember all those times both would visit us in America…it was always around my grandmothers birthday. Before I go further into their lives, I need to explain a couple things.
Yong….first name of all of my aunts and uncles…Let’s see, my father’s only younger sibling…she happens to be the youngest Lee in the family. My earliest memory of her is a little vague. I just recall after meeting her, there was no doubt in my mind that she’s a strain of our family blood line. She looked almost identical to my father. Her smile, her mannerisms, and her sense of Lee humor…it was all there…just 6 years younger, more vibrant, and full of energy…but something was always different about her. I think it has to do with the fact that she decided to move to Germany at a tender age of twenty one to study abroad…she was always different to me…in a cool euro 1970’s hippie love child kind of way.
Being the youngest of 6 must have been tough on her…all the focus has been with the male siblings in her family anyways…but times in Korea were different then. I’m only assuming this but I think since my father and her are the two bottom feeders of the family, I would like to think they have a special bond together. It’s eerie to me how similar they are to each other. Perhaps this is the reason for her being such a great aunt to a nephew of her immediate brother…either way…I couldn’t go on this journey without her and I am eternally grateful that she is here…
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