Chuseok Vacation part 3

I've rediscovered Saves the Day. That's what my vacation has become.

I went to E-Mart and bought the fixings for meat sauce spaghetti (with 한우!!!) as well as mac and cheese. That should keep me fed for a couple days.

I bought cakes for 부's family. I need to come up with a good English nickname for him. Anyways, I'm going to his grandmother's house on Thursday. I'm only moderately terrified, which is an improvement from utterly terrified which is how I felt when he initially asked me. You see, this is a big step, and I don't want to fuck it up by saying the wrong thing to his parents or grandparents or aunts and uncles and cousins while I'm there. They will all be judging me and not only do I have no idea what I'm going to say or do, I also have no idea what to wear, and no idea what they will think of me.

It's pouring outside. I'm listening to the Through Being Cool album. FML.

On the bright side, I found the oven I want to buy at E-Mart. It's bigger than all the others I've seen (but still maybe 1/4 the size of a regular american oven), and it's about 300 dollars.  And I may have found the perfect first baked good on the Cupcakes Take the Cake blog:

Chocolate Chip cookie dough cupcakes with cookie dough inside and a cookie on top. HOLY HELL I MUST EAT THESE ASAP.

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A

Cake Wrecks

So some of my more internet adept friends and readers have probably already seen this blog, but it's called Cake Wrecks and it's over at www.cakewrecks.blogspot.com

HOLY CRAP it's hilarious.

This is my favorite picture I just found while browsing.

America, fuck yeah.

My friend showed it to me about 4 months ago, and I got on infrequently, but I just about pissed myself laughing at the above one. It's so damn funny.

So yeah, check it out.

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A

Cake. Alcohol. Korea.

In a less than shocking turn of events, I got drunk last night. What is shocking, though, is that it was on soju, my most loathed alcohol, AND I didn't even get too hungover.

Have I ever told you how much I love this country? Sometimes, I feel like I'm at home here. Right about now is one of those times. My students are absolute dolls. Everyone here is LOVELY.

Tonight, I'm meeting a couple people for dinner and then we are going to go make a cake!! Or attempt to make a cake. Given the imminent language barrier, we will see how it goes. If successful, I will post pictures soooooon!

I'm pretty sure I'm not leaving this country for a while. *^_____________^*

My Korean classes start up again next week. On my list of things to learn how to say: without, I have _________, You are handsome, what time is it, how old are you, I am ___- years old.

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A

Merry Christmas

I unfortunately left my camera at school this weekend, and so this update will be picture-less. I am especially bummed about this because I took lots of pictures of my classroom, my students, and other things christmas-y. I guess I will just do a picture post later next week.

It's officially Christmas Day here in Korea. I was woken up by a text message at 7:30 from a student, saying Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. I was both touched and annoyed. haha.

Had some croissants for breakfast. It's not Mom's breakfast before, but it'll do.

Yesterday was a wonderful day of school. I was scheduled to have 5 classes, but I ended up only having 3, due to a special book program thing in the gym for all the students.

Because it was Christmas Eve, many students gave me Christmas cards. I got about 6 today, bringing my total christmas card count to 12. Not too shabby, me thinks. The cards from my students are my favorites, simply because I know the effort they put into making them. Some of them made cards by hand, others bought cards. Either way, they all wrote notes in English, which is impressive, and quite a challenge for some of them. They say the sweetest nicest things to me, and I love them.

Then, after work, my coteachers and I got together in the English room and they brought a cake! A Christmas Cake! You see, in the United States, it is our tradition to eat Christmas cookies. Here, they eat Christmas Cake. What is a Christmas cake you ask? Well, it's not any different than a regular cake, except it has adorable Christmas decorations on it. My cake, for example had a reindeer, two chocolate christmas trees, snowflakes and a bunch of fruit on top. I took pictures, which I will post on Monday.

Last night, I got to talk to Pav, and in about an hour I'll be talking to the parents! Quite excited for that.

My first Korean Christmas! As I told my co-teachers yesterday, hopefully not my last Korean Christmas!

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A