Venture to Korea with Amanda & Abi

To all our friends, families, and vistors - thank you for visiting. We will be updating this blog as our adventure develops.

 

 

 

When we first got here we both found Korean food to be usually nasty and always unpredictable. Now I think I can confidently say it may be one of the things both of us miss the most!!!. Usually when you eat Korean style you sit on the floor with a very large table that is covered by small dishes each with something different in it. There isn't usually individual dishes, like where you can put the things you like. You just all eat out of the same stuff. I can't believe we haven't gotten sick more! There's a chain place called 김 밥 촌 국  that serves very cheap Korean food. 김 밥 (sounds like kim pop) is a kind of food that is rice, strips of ham/spam, radishes, egg, carrots, some other veggetable, wrapped in a piece of seaweed, looks kinda like a sushi roll and costs a dollar. The word 촌 국 means heaven or paradise. Funny name, anyway they have big vats of kim chi and other side dishes and it's not uncommon to see the staff use the tongs to take a hung of kim chi out, feed themselves, and toss um right back in. On another occaision a little boy threw up all over the table in one of these restaurants and they wiped it up with paper towels and that was it. No bleach or disinfectant....yuk!  I'm going to have to be tested for a whole pile of diseases when I get back so don't share my lip gloss. I blew Amanda's mind the other day, reminding her that we only have 22 weeks left here. When you think about it, it's a very small amount of time. We're both still waffling on what to do next but time sure is flying. My poor children don't understand that I'm leaving. I told them I would be gone for a week for vacation and they got very upset. I then explained that I would be leaving in July. The dialogue went a bit like this....

A: "Abi teacher will go back to America in July and she will miss you very much."

S: "Abi teacher will go to America for one week and then come back?"

A: "Abi teacher might come back but probably not to KJC Allak Dong. "

S: "Why Abi teacher not stay in Korea?"

A: "Abi teachers brother will get married so Abi teacher must go home."

S: "Brother is married and then you come back?"

A:" Maybe, but maybe not."

S: "Amanda teacher and Alisha teacher will stay?"

A: "Only for one year, like Abi teacher and then you will have new foreigner teachers!!!"(said with a lot of excitement and vigor!)

S: "Abi Teacher and Amanda teacher go and then new teachers come for one year and then Abi teacher and Amanda teacher come back?"

 

etc, etc, Broke my heart. I think they understand but they're not very happy about it. Me either but I'm starting to miss some American things like hot water coming out of the tap, taking a shower and not having to hold the shower head, getting lost and being able to ask for directions, and not being a circus side show, you know all those luxuries!! Miss you all and much love to boot!!!

abi

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