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I for some reason felt like posting the contents of the school lunch today, since that at least gets the posting window open. Please feel free to skip over that bit if you like. : ) (I'm at work, listening to student presentations on the intercom, so please excuse if I'm distracted.)
The average Korean meal (outside of foreign food, junk food, or banquet-style food) consists of a) rice, b) soup, and c) an assortment of side dishes, or banchan. Obviously kimchi (kimchee) features prominently, and comes in any number of varieties!
Today:
Rice: white with a few grains of barley mixed in
Soup: mushroom
Banchan: Regular (cabbage) kimchi; bean-sprout kimchi cooked with green chilis; sugared, roasted (?) green seaweed; baked fish; rather oily julienned potatoes with black sesame seeds.
These kids are making me want to get a pen pal or something, because I'm suddenly doubly ashamed of my lack of language skills.
Trying to get my lesson plans together for next month, since everything's changing and I'll have some new classes I've never done before. I need to go, soon, though, and do the bellydance thing. (EVERYONE IN THE SCHOOL has apparently discovered that this is what I do, and has asked me about it at some point. -_- Somewhat embarassing, though I'm not sure why.)
Still trying to decide where to go after Korea. Japan seems like it'll be kind of a pain in the ass overall, especially for only one year. Am considering Thailand, but I'd really like to try and get out of the hot weather... maybe somewhere in the mountains it would be cooler? I think I'd really enjoy Thailand, actually, and mountains are usually enough to make me pretty happy. Have also considered Norway or the Czech republic...
(Haha, our general manager's daugher-- a student-- just said "eckt" for "etc." Kind of funny-- aw, she's embarrassed-- she's explaining and-- demonstrating? how to make stickers. Cuuute.)
Need to get a cadeau for Mum's birthday-- September 10. She's apparently gone kind of wild with home improvements in the absence of kids to occupy her time-- ohh, Telly is actually laughing because she's in there drawing cartoons of all the foreign teachers for the benefit of the audience. Lucky girl-- quite the opportunity. ^__^
Finally sent snail-mail to the brothers. I need to start writing more letters.
I do need to go, so I'll talk to you lovely people later. Byee--
me
The average Korean meal (outside of foreign food, junk food, or banquet-style food) consists of a) rice, b) soup, and c) an assortment of side dishes, or banchan. Obviously kimchi (kimchee) features prominently, and comes in any number of varieties!
Today:
Rice: white with a few grains of barley mixed in
Soup: mushroom
Banchan: Regular (cabbage) kimchi; bean-sprout kimchi cooked with green chilis; sugared, roasted (?) green seaweed; baked fish; rather oily julienned potatoes with black sesame seeds.
These kids are making me want to get a pen pal or something, because I'm suddenly doubly ashamed of my lack of language skills.
Trying to get my lesson plans together for next month, since everything's changing and I'll have some new classes I've never done before. I need to go, soon, though, and do the bellydance thing. (EVERYONE IN THE SCHOOL has apparently discovered that this is what I do, and has asked me about it at some point. -_- Somewhat embarassing, though I'm not sure why.)
Still trying to decide where to go after Korea. Japan seems like it'll be kind of a pain in the ass overall, especially for only one year. Am considering Thailand, but I'd really like to try and get out of the hot weather... maybe somewhere in the mountains it would be cooler? I think I'd really enjoy Thailand, actually, and mountains are usually enough to make me pretty happy. Have also considered Norway or the Czech republic...
(Haha, our general manager's daugher-- a student-- just said "eckt" for "etc." Kind of funny-- aw, she's embarrassed-- she's explaining and-- demonstrating? how to make stickers. Cuuute.)
Need to get a cadeau for Mum's birthday-- September 10. She's apparently gone kind of wild with home improvements in the absence of kids to occupy her time-- ohh, Telly is actually laughing because she's in there drawing cartoons of all the foreign teachers for the benefit of the audience. Lucky girl-- quite the opportunity. ^__^
Finally sent snail-mail to the brothers. I need to start writing more letters.
I do need to go, so I'll talk to you lovely people later. Byee--
me