Early November

ok ok I know I havent posted in a while. SORRY!!!

Saturday the 11th was bbeh-bbae-roe day (not really spelled like this but its easier to say). This is where people (usually just school kids, teens, and people my age) give each other chocolate sticks. These are the same as the Japanese pocky, if you know what that is. Anyways, they are thin breadsticks, skinnier than a pencil, and they are dipped in chocolate. As with anything chocolate there are many varieties, and there are jumbo ones. Before anyone asks, yes I did explain Rememberance Day and the poppy poem, and I did my minute of silence.

On Sunday, we went to "Fantasia", an amusement park. it was interesting. There were sky bikes (I have pics so I wont explain), and the world's stupidest ferris wheel. It goes so slow, and you cant rock it, and its surrounded in glass so its hard to take pics. Decent views when you can see through the glass tho.

The previous weekend, Nov 4th I think, we went out for dinner with Sung Chul's friends and their families, (total 14 ppl) which was great, had Hite beer, which I like better than beer back home... (sorry!!!) One woman majored in English Literature in university so she could speak very well, but she didnt say much. We had galbi, which is a BBQ at your table basically. There are large holes cut into the tables, in which a basin of hot coals is put. On top of that is a grill. then pieces of thinly sliced beef are put on the grill and left to cook (yes there is a vent for the BBQ thingy, a long tube comes all the way down from the ceiling and sucks up the smoke). This was very good. Then everyone came back to the house where the parents (fathers, the mums drove) had whiskey & scotch, ton's of rice cakes (not the styrofoam ones like home, these are regular rice grains, stuck to gether with a mixture of... anything. peanuts, fruit, etc. like a rice krispy square but the rice isnt puffed and this is healthy for you. Everyone stayed pretty late.

This was also the weekend that we got the NEW HOUSEKEEPER Mrs. Cho. The evil one's husband was in a bad car accident, breaking both legs so she left one night early in the am the previous week and never came back. Mrs Cho is great. She cooks amazing, doesnt have a problem with foreigners, wants to help me learn Korean, tho she knows as much english as I know korean right now.