Travel Log Korea from the begining and onward
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| Well, I'm still hitting and missing when it comes to
shopping. Last night I went out to one of the restaurants
that surround my apartment, only to discover that the
restaurant does not serve food. This is a problem as I
still don't have utensils, or pots, or pans, so I went to
the corner grocery for some ramen, which is everywhere,
and bought a large bottle of water, just water, plain,
clear as day water. I got home and opened the water and
took a big swig of what tasted like the mouthwash they
asked you to use in a dentists office, all icky and
flouridey and sweet, and spat it into the sink, and spent
the next couple of hours painting and being in a general
funk. Saturday the director is taking myself and the
other two new teachers out to Kesan for the day, we leave
early and it should prove to be a good time. The other
new teachers Jenny and Eric, respectively, seem to be
settling in well. They came out together and are sharing
two apartments though they seem to stick to mostly one.
Jenny has red hair, which the students find quite
fascinating and Eric has very hairy arms. The kids have
taken to calling him the monster teacher because he is so
fuzzy. This just amuses me. Some things I've picked up
when traveling out with one of the Korean teachers are as
follows: I have a very small face. I hear there things quite a bit and as I find them
generally annoying I thought I'd share. I went out for
lunch today at one of the little restaurants near the
school, all of which do serve food, and had some
pibimbop. It's a spice rice dish with seaweed,
vegetables, red paste, and green onions. They serve all
the ingredients piled up and you stir it with a spoon. As
most Korean meals have about four side dishes it is
served with a brothy soup, some seaweed and green onions,
and a Korean radish covered in red pepper paste. I've
eaten there about three times but apparently enough to be
remembered as they now know that my order is
go-gee-bay-go and go-gee-karo which I think roughly
translates to No Meat, No Egg. It works for me. When I
walked in today the very nice hostess sat me at a table
and then turned the fan on, and placed it directly into
my face, so I had to fight with my hair for most of the
meal, but it was very nice of her being that it was hot
and what not. I've been working on getting a more advanced website
up and running for the school, and hopefully I shall have
something to show everyone sooner or later. I may also be
hosted in an art exhibition here, as the Director has
taken quite a liking to all things Sara and thinks I
should try to get featured in several galleries here. We
shall see. In the meantime I will need to find some way to get
some of my art, and at the very least my sewing machine,
before to much longer. Hopefully if Sam re-emerges to the
land of communication I will be able to convey lists of
things that must be sent before to much longer. Other than that life goes on. On the subject of
reading, I was wondering if anyone aside from the
Wolfandbonister has heard of the Limmeny Snicket Books
about A Series of Terribly Unfortunate Events. They seem
to be a series of children's books but they really do
sound interesting. Something that EA and Peter might
enjoy, I suspect, as well as several of the students I
worked with at the Settlement. Hopefully I will have word
on whether or not we can get a little pen/e-pal thing
going. All of the students at the school have email, so
that would probably be the simplest way to write back and
forth. In other news I adventure out to the post office
on Friday, and will let you know how it goes. |