뉴밀레니엄을 기다리며

밀레니엄 미국 여행

99. 12. 31.(금) 뉴 밀레니엄을 기다리며

오늘은 집에서 쉬기로 한다. 아이들이 안 따라나서려고 한다. 1999년 마지막 날. 언니네 집을 정리해 줘야겠다. 무엇을 할까? 블라인드를 닦아주자. 모처럼 마음이 가볍다. 진과 엽은 비디오를 보고 진돗개인 스페이쉬와 논다. 우선, 윌리 방, 앤의 방, 거실, 휴 , 기운 달려. 저녁이 되어 거실을 대충 치웠다.

온 식구가 Mart(슈퍼마켓)에 가서 먹을 것을 사고 밀레니엄 케익도 샀다. 앤은 새우를 잘 다듬었다.

미식축구가 열린다는 페서디나에서 매해 1월 1일에 축제가 벌어지고 꽃행렬이 지나간단다. 이것을 보기 위해 이불을 뒤집어쓰고 길가에서 잠잔다고 한다. TV는 이들의 모습을 비춰준다.

드디어 밀레니엄. TV에서 폭죽터지는 소리와 동시에 이 마을에서도 폭죽터지는 소리가 요란하다. 밖이 환하다. 여기저기서 폭죽을 쏘아 올린다. 다 같이 "Happy, new millenium!"을 외치고 밀레니엄 케익을 잘랐다. 잠꾸러기 진이를 깨우고 케익을 먹는다. 어제 남편은 어땠을까? 잠시 남편을 생각한다.

새해가 밝았구나. 이제 새로운 1000년이 시작되었다.

12/31 New Millenium

I decided to take a day off from travelling. My children wouldn't come along with me. The last day of the year 1999. I had better clean my sister's house. What should I do? Let's clean the blinds. For the first time in along time, I am lighthearted.

Yoo JIn and Jae Yup watched video and played with Spacy, the Jindo dog. First, I clean Willi's room, Ann's room and then the living room. Whew, I need more energy. It's already close to dinner time, so I had finished cleaning the livingroom in a hurry.

The family went shopping to the Mart and bought a millenium cake. Ann trimmed the shrimp well. Yoo Jin and Jae Yup helped Ann but that annoyed Ann. They peeled off the skin of the shrimp and covered them with wet flour. My brother-in-law fried them.

After the dinner, my sister turned on the Karaoque machine (singing machine) and we sang together. I urged my brother-in-law to sing, but he refused with a shy-face smile. We sang our heart's content and watched TV waiting for the New Year.

My brother in law said a festival takes place every year on New Year's Day in Pasadena. The Rose Bowl (football game) is also held on that day. On that parade, there is a procession of many flower floats. Many people spend a night covered with blankets and sleep in the street to see this event. The TV showed the people camping out on the street.

At Last, the Millenium had come. There were sound of fireworks going off here and there around town. We simultaneously heard the sound of the fireworks going off on TV. We shouted, "Happy New Millenium!" and cut the millenium cake. I woke Yoo Jin, the sleepyhead, up and had some cake.

"How was Young (my husband) yesterday?" I wondered. I think about him a little. The new year begins. Now, the new millenium begins. One of my wishes, to great the New Millenium in America, has come true.