Sunday, July 20, 2008
Here is something you "might" want to try if you come and visit us in Korea, or ever find yourself out this way... deep fried.... moth larvae. Eww... yeah. They were being served right along rice cakes, corn dogs (which don't taste good here at all) and some more dried seafood delicacies. Mmmm... my favouite :( Gross.
Typical street vendor here in Wonju. I have no idea how they can stand back there with all the heat coming off of the food and the extreme heat and humidity of just being in Korea. It's unknown to me. I have not bought anything from here as of yet though....
I am sure that some of you have heard me complain before about the treatment of dogs here. It is sickening. This is what you usually see with big dogs. Just left alone in wire cages in the heat and the sun for days and days. There is one on roof of the building next to us that never gets let out of its cage and the owner goes up like once a week to clean out the pan of excrement from the dog. It breaks my heart. Small dogs gets treated like royalty, but big dogs are trained to be extremely aggressive and then place in this small cages alone without any affection from their owners. They just watch people walk by all day and it breaks my heart. No one seems to notice them except the foreigners.
We had a good weekend though. On Friday night we went to Trivia Night at Beer Plus, a western style pub just around the corner from our house (that only serves really weak Korean beer). It is an event held once a month by the foreign teachers at one of the middle schools. Kyle and I were a team and we placed third. There was a category on Pirates that was ridiculously hard and only people who are striving to be pirates or are the biggest nerds ever, would know the answers to the questions. They were like "When is National Talk Like a Pirate Day?" and "What is this pirate's real name?" and weird stuff like that. We did really well on the Olympics category, decent on the movies category (although some of their information was very wrong) and we aced the current events category. It was a lot of fun and this is the second time that we have gone. The first time we were late and missed a whole category and finished first overall. We had some nachos at the bar and they tasted sooo good that I will be going back there and ordering them again. They only cost 6000 won ($6) for a full plate for two people.
We met some new people that night too. Another young newlywed couple. They got married in January of this year and they are from Australia. We also met another couple from New Zealand (the wife is Korean though). Kyle and I and the other young newlyweds are on the same page when it comes to being here and how involved we really want to get, so it was nice to find people who had some things in common with us and we could actually talk to really easily. Their names are Heath and Amy. Yeah, we went bowling with them the next day and they were going to try and cheer for the two Amy's by using last initials, but that didn't work either since we have the same last 3 initials.... McK. hahahaha. It was funny when we figured that out. So, the girls (4 of us) were bowling together and the guys (4 of them) were bowling together. It was all young married couples and it was a lot of fun. I didn't do so well though... but at least I didn't get last. It was really good to get out of the house with some new people.
After bowling, we were all a little famished, so we went for Shabu. It was frustrating because they were telling us that we couldn't share dishes together and so we ended up ordering more than we wanted to and they definitely lost customers. It was to the point of arguing the wait staff about what we want and we are the customers... so, we will not be going back to that Shabu place again. At least not nearly as often as we did before.
So, we had a really good day on Saturday. It was really nice for us to get out of the Princeton clic and go meet some new people from another school. We were supposed to go hiking, but it was pouring rain all day. We also did some grocery shopping in E-Mart in the morning before bowling and finally caved to our hamburger cravings and had some McDicks before we left. We spent the evening just watching movies, we watch a movie called Felon with Val Kilmer and we watch Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Today, was good as well. We just prepared for the week, looked at some stuff on the computer, ate spaghetti and now we are just laying around relaxing. It's nice and cool in our apartment (thanks to the aircon) and having our bed in the "livingroom" now has been helping us sleep a lot better. Things are going well, we really miss home still and we are still waiting on a care package from my parents that was sent almost 2 months ago and still is not here. I am starting to cave to the idea that it is lost in the mail and we will never get it. I was really looking forward to having Orange Pekoe Tetley Tea and Apple Cider and mircowave popcorn and homemade rhubarb jam and good peanut butter... and everything else that was in there. I also had one of my hoodies in there, so that may be lost now too. Sad times.
We have been invited out again next weekend with the same couple to go to a birthday party (saturday) and we are looking forward to it. We can see ourselves hanging out with them more often. Then, Sunday, we go get Matt at the airport. Speaking of which, I should email him about stuff he should pack... bye for now!!
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