At my table, a Korean teacher was sitting across from me. She asked, “How do you like the food.” I was like, “Ahhhh…Yesterday was better.” First of all, there was no meat. =[ The egg quiche was the saving grace of the lunch, but everything else fell short. Beansprout soup with tofu; Lame. Rice noodles; [...]
Read On No CommentsToday’s lunch was AWEsome. As I stood in line, I glanced at the students’ plates. I spotted beef, and said to myself “Ahsahh!” I was pleased to find rolls, which we’ve never had in the cafeteria before. One of the teachers, ahead of me, took the last one, but he decided to give it to [...]
I was a little excited about about the meat of the day. It was chicken in a spicy sauce. However, upon further inspection, I saw that it was still on the bone. I hate trying to use chopsticks and gnaw meat off the bone. Bones in general turn me off. Additionally, I got a little [...]
Today’s lunch set the bar pretty high for the week. I get the most excited to see a beef entree. Today, it was mini franks and I went balistic. I had to go back for seconds. The soup was also good. Dukk, glutinous rice, by itself is usually doughy and nasty, but in this soup, [...]
This is Mr Chin. He’s one of my school ambassadors (of sorts). He lives in the same apartment as I do, and he takes me to school each morning. He’s helped me out with my rice cooker and setting up the internet. He’s a decent tennis player, and his English is so so. His family [...]
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Friday after school, a couple of the teachers went out to dinner. They were celebrating some school design award. We ate at a traditional Korean tofu restaurant. We had a plate of steamed pork with spicy carrots. The main dish was a seafood mushroom tofo soup. I expected the dinner to be long and filled [...]
Yesterday, I had the day off, and we had a half day on Wednesday. The reason was for the high school senior exams. I think it’s like the SATs and ACT, but students can only take them once a year.
“It is a day of supreme importance to a Korean person’s academic life. It’s pressure [...]
So, I ended up not doing what I planned on Pepero Day. Over the weekend, I was going to buy pepero at E-Mart or Lotte for some of the good students. But since I went to Daegu, I didn’t get around to it. I was going to go on Monday, but then I went out [...]
I told my students, “Wow, you are all wearing Adidas sandals!” (Actually, I’m aware that they’re not really Adidas. I have a pair of sandals that I bought at E-Mart. They have the iconic 3 stripes, but they have ‘Korea’ engraved in the rubber. They’re deliberate knock-offs and everybody wears them.) One cheeky student spoke [...]