It's my exeprience~~!

1년정도 된것...ㅋㅋ

In our COMM. theory class today, Ma'am explained about ethnography. She told us that if we don’t have certain experiences, sometime we can have hard time understanding something. This explanation made me imagine my past.

Maybe that was 2003, when I was in the military service. That time, I was the lowest rank in my party. We had training in the mountain; we needed to move another mountain through walking. Before we started our march, my superiors did strange thing. We were always with some medicine for first aid; A cataplasm which uses for the muscle pain is one of them. (Korean is called it, “PAS”) My superiors washed their hair with liquid cataplasm; I was shocked then. I am used to use PAS when I overuse my muscles but I never seen that people wash their hair using cataplasm. Soon, I became one of them. I couldn’t disobey my superior's order.

After I did it, soon I could understand why they did it; it has two effects. The first one is that I felt, my head was so cool, although there was so strong sunshine; it helped me to walk long time under the sun. The second one is that in the mountain, there were lots of insects like mosquito. The smell of the cataplasm prevented beating by insects in the mountain.

I can relate this experience with two things; they are ethnography and perception. I think, this is kind of selective perception, because I tried to understand them based on what I know. This is my entry of this week. Now, time is 11:40. It means that I post this on friday. Have a nice day and see you on Monday~~!!