Apparently this is one of the coldest and longest winters South Korea has ever had. Spring normally arrives long before the date I got here, April 12th. But not this year!! Ever since I got to Korea, it has been freakin freezing. Today, three days away from May, it is only about 40 degrees and windy and rainy. Same thing yesterday. I am ready to cut someone. GIVE ME SPRING!!!
On a side note, today the foreign-language teaching department (8 people, including myself) went out to lunch after midterm exams. The Koreans call this hwe-shik and it is quite a frequent occurrence within companies and organizations as kind of a bonding ritual. At least once a month, an entire department or even the whole school faculty will go out to a restaurant for lunch or dinner and drinks. There has not yet been an evening hwe-shik since I started working here, but apparently those are the ones that get really messy because all the teachers get super-drunk. In Korea, it is very very rude to stop drinking before the head boss (or principal in the case of a school) so I have heard from other native English teachers that hwe-shiks at night are pretty crazy and funny, but also a bit much to deal with. Anyway, at our hwe-shik today, we literally ate soup of fish eggs and fish guts. It was good, even though the eggs and guts really did look disgusting. I am really glad that I am not put off by gross-sounding or gross-looking food, because I would be missing out on some good stuff. I remember being the only one of my friends to eat the haggis back in Scotland, and it was delicious.
Although right now, my stomach kinda hurts. I hope I don't regret being adventurous today....
It's 45* and raining here today, too. May Day will be here, soon enough, and with it will come a glorious spring.
ReplyDeleteWhat are "haggis"? How do you get beyond the look of eating eggs & guts?
HAHA!! I would strongly suggest looking haggis up on Wikipedia... it's even grosser than fish eggs and fish guts ;)
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