Cow Water and Mutant Foreigners

I get the funniest comments from children in this country! Often their English is fairly good, and with some effort and sometimes an electronic dictionary, they can usually get their point across.

A friend's son was describing his dinner to me tonight, and after a few drawings and hemming and hawing, he came up with, "Cow water;" aka beef broth.

I have been told by children that I have hairy arms (many Koreans have no arm or facial hair), that I'm very tall, that I have gold hair, long eyelashes, a big nose (and asked if all Westerners' noses and eyes are as big?), and that I laugh like a witch (I can't imagine why they would think that...). ;P In fact, my nickname at the restaurant downstairs is, "Ha Ha."

The best, however, was when one little Einstein gave me a quizzical look, plugged away on his dictionary, and then asked me if my hair was a "genetic mutation."