December 2010
35 posts
Busan: 돼지국밥
God bless this man! Mike and I woke up around noon on Tuesday, having dreamed of Daeji Guk Bap, a Busan specialty dish. Starving, we ran to a restaurant that does it right.
Most food in Korea is cut with scissors, not knives. It’s so much easier!
It’s really just pork noodle soup with rice. They make the broth on site in a vat next to the window where everyone can see into the...
Yonggungsa Temple in Busan
This week is winter vacation. For two days of my week off, I went with my friend Mike to the fifth largest port in the world. Here’s part one, a famous buddhist temple.
Right on the ocean.
Statues for each Zodiac figure.
“DO NOT LEAN!”
ROR
Joe: they run hot water under the floor
and the floor gets real hot
and that’s how they get warm
Carl: = SHOOOOOOES
dog soup (보신탕)
Ten dollars. It wasn’t very bad, it wasn’t very good.
I must have eaten a greyhound, though, because it went right through me.
aftermath
Parents came and took all their students’ books and materials.
Many classes lost a few students. One teacher lost them all. He spends his mornings doing paperwork in an empty classroom.
After three teachers disappeared, the boss’s daughter put up this really funny notice.
Here is the news story in English:
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/12/117_78226.html
I...
“Something terrible is happening right now.” - Julie, 2nd Grade
I feel like I am in Hitler’s bunker in the final hours. I wish I could think of something more wholesome to compare it to.
in the (Korean) news →
If you can read/translate this, you’ll know we’re done for.
5:52 PM
The kindergarten program at our school has completely collapsed. We will see if I still have a job at the end of the week! Good thing I just got paid…
Tuesday
Two K-Teachers didn’t show up for work today and they’re probably never coming back.
We’ve had three different P.E. teachers in the past month, and I heard it’s because they’re not getting paid.
I teach less students every week.
A man in the lobby is shouting in Korean at my boss about money.
The lunchladies are huddled together in the library, whispering in...
똥침
When I was a lad, not too long ago it seems, the standard schoolchild prank was the wedgie—you know, where you sneak up behind somebody, grab the back of their underwear, and yank it up high. As far as I can remember, though, I never really saw it happen very often. For me, the wedgie was was mostly fiction.
Seoul is sophisticated and fascinating. However, in its culture’s...
