I touch a snail...

Yesterday was the first time in my life...

To touch a living snail...the flesh and the shell.

It was an experience of a lifetime...and a rather freaky one...

I was forced to...at the same time..i was tempted.

It was slimy and wriggling as usual...and how scary can it get...

My 8 years old korean student Soobin prompted me...while i was yeeeking away...

She says..."what is so scary about a snail?"
and she is right.

So I touch it...while it's flesh was wriggling...I touch the wriggling flesh of her pet snail...
from the transparent container with a small opening exposing the flesh of the crawling snail upside down...

It was ...er..

Slimy...sticky...

and...that's all.

After that...i touch it for a few more times...it was fun.

And while I thought I have successfully overcome my own fear...
She pick up her snail...and chase after me around her house...

I know it was silly...

Apparently...I am still afraid of snail...even after I have touch it...
Maybe not as afraid as before...
But not until i can play with it yet.

I touched a snail..

I really did.

I really feel proud that I have overcome yet another of my own fear...

I bet you never touch a snail before...Or..Have you?