I am pretty pissed about some stuff right now, but since anyone can view this I have decided to vent it to friends instead. So I'll just cover some of the better things of today and tomorrow.
The prep I did last night paid off, however the kids still ran through my material like it took me no time to put it together. So next week I am thinking I need to prep a bit more each day just in case, if I don't use it then, then I CAN use it later. Anyway I got home from work today feeling really low and tired.
Tomorrow I will not be teaching any classes so I will have to oppotunity to get plenty of prep done for next week so that I can go out this weekend and see a friend. Also it will be good to see some of the others do some work for a change.
I bought some stuff from a Korean bakery, there are certain stores that are basically a chain, but they are nothing like anything you would be used to. For those in the UK, they are certainly nothing like a Greggs, they have never heard of savory pastry here and those in the US, their bakeries here are probably closer to yours, except the ones in Korea sell bastardised items of what you may expect. For instance I picked up some doughnuts today, but rather than having jam/jelly in them they have red bean in them. By the way red bean, is well, basically just beans that are red and they are lightly sugared. Koreans love red bean, but I can't abide them, the thing is that it's not bad per se, but it's just a huge let down, whever I find them in what I think I know I am eating I just feel hugely let down and become bored with it.
I find it very strange that the Koreans completely fail with sweet foods. I know that this is a different culture and that they generally like savoury goods and that they eat their large meals several times a day everyday. However when it comes to deserts they just take something that the Americans do quite well and make a Korean version which gernerally makes it pretty crappy. Now this is not to say that they don't have their own stuff, it's just that I have as yet not found anything.
Again I find that ice cream here in Korea is pretty good, they do it quite well considering the fact that the milk over here has a strange for of eggy smell to it. However one should be careful when picking out a flavour, if you are pretty certain what you have picked up, you will likely be wrong. For instance I was looking through the various flavours and for the most part I could not find anything I knew, I was looking for chocolate, vanilla or strawberry, you know just the bog standards. However none were available so I delved in and I cam across what I assumed must be mint. You see green and you see what look like mint leaves and so you assume mint. However that was a big mistake. Instead I got...green tea. Green fucking tea as an Ice cream. LET DOWN!
That's the thing here nothing is really bad, it's just that a lot of things are either not that good or they are just a major let down on what you expect. I think the first thing I need to learn is not to have any sort of expectations. Again I want to make it clear that although there is indeed a lot of stuff that isn't good and isn't bad either there is also that small percentage of food that is good (all of this of course is just my opinion). The problem at the moment of listing good foods I have found in Korea is that I have no idea what to call them, or else if I do know the names I have no idea how to spell it.
Right well I guess this is a real mis-mash of different things. Well I guess if you have been following my blog so far you'll know it goes a bit like this anyway, a stream of conciousness and random stuff chucked in. Righty o I'll be off now, I may well have stuff to talk about tomorrow and if not I'm going into Busan this weekend, so that's certain to kick up something worthy of writing about. So if you have enjoyed my continual blog thus far stay tuned for further updates.
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