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The Happy Clam

To celebrate a friend's birthday, last night we went to a seafood restaurant called The Happy Clam, which is exactly how I felt after eating there. I didn't grow up eating a lot of seafood. I don't really know the difference between clams and oysters and other things that come in shells. But I will try everything and adventurous eating most often pays off.  Like it did last night.

One of the things I love about restaurants in Korea is how your food is cooked in front of you. At at the Happy Clam you order a large, medium, or small order and they bring everything out in a big steaming pan. You get a bunch of appetizers like fish paste on a stick, kimchi pancakes, and these...

Silkworms

Then the guy comes over and helps you take things out of the shells and cuts up the squid. Then you eat everything! The four of us demolished the whole portion. After you finish eating and take out the shells, they bring you noodles to cook in the broth. Heavenly.

I was so full and satisfied. I hope we go back there sometime.

This is what I eat for breakfast

I saw this on a fitness blog and tried it before Christmas break. It may just be that I don't have much other food in the apartment but I have been eating this for bfast everyday since I got back. It really keeps me full till lunch and is delicious. I should probably be using organic homemade peanut butter but whatevs.  I'm very thankful that we have Costco here!

Microwave 1/3 c oatmeal with 1/2 c water for about 2 mins... Make sure it doesn't explode all over your microwave five minutes before you have to leave for school (true story). Stir up about a table spoon of peanut butter and as many berries as you want. Enjoy as you rush around doing your make up and hair!

Highrise Morning

I saw this view as I walked up the stairs this morning.  The other two mornings we've been back in school, it has been very foggy outside and you couldn't see very far out the windows.  This is actually a really bad picture of it because I was on the stairs and too tired to get any closer, but I thought it looked cool.

BTW- I can shower again

My shower bathroom was fixed so I can take showers with flooding my apartment again.  Yay!

Life as a Teacher

It's time to resurrect this because it's only the second day back from break and I've already had interactions this aggravating...

http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=241598&title=Seinfeld_History_Lesson
(sorry it won't embed for some reason)

Best advice about Korea ever

I think it's time to pull this out again.  After I told my 6th grade class that I was moving to Korea, I received this email from a very well intentioned Korean boy.  It is simply epic.

   Dear Ms. Wood,

Hello! Are you prepared for South Korea?

When you prepare, don't forget to prepare what Koreans do. They do a lot

of unusual things.

Here's top 5 of unusual things in middle school students+ ages.

1.Swearing

2.Students go to lots of academies and spend until like 10'o clock,

studying.

3.Violence (they fight A LOT!!! Even I got in a really violent fight once

:))

4.Comparing between A- student and A+ student (for example) and A+ student

will tease A- student (aka show-off :))

5.Eating spicy foods (Korean spicy foods are the most spicy food in the

world! You might sweat when you're eating!)

And I'll show you how to avoid bad things.

Swears

-Ignoring is the best way.

-Reporting whoever did a swear to you.

Violence

-If you're being bullied, gather around some people who trust and like you

and show them that you're not alone.

-Reporting is another choice.

-Talk back (for example, if someone says "You're ugly", say,

"Well guess what. You're not handsome too. If you're handse, your

face has to look nice AND your mind.")

-This is the worst choice. Most Korean kids choose this choice. Fighting

back.

 

Comparing

-Tell them how painful getting picked is. If that doesn't work, pick them

in a group and they'll know your mind.

-Reporting is not a really good choice. But it still works.

-Ask them a question. "What if I got A+ for the test and you got A-

and you're used to be better than me? What will you say?"

That's pretty much it. But there's one thing left. Spicy foods. When I

first ate a spicy food, when I was 5 years old, i guess, my tongue was

burning to death. So here's the guide to spicy foods. First, don't never

start off with 5 star rated spicy food. The start is most important. I

suggest that you start off with 1 star rated spicy food (the most not

spicy one). If you're brave enough to go on to the next one, try 5 star

rated spicy food right before next level. And when you want to go to 3

star rated, try 5 star rated spicy food and so on. Now you'll get to 5

star rated food. But I suggest that you really shouldn't eat a lot of

spicy foods because eating a lot of spicy foods may cause you diarrhea or

stomachache.

-I hope this works!

-Chanwoo Lee

-P.S. make someone in your class see this letter if he's getting troubles

with getting swears, being bullied, getting compared, and spicy foods. Of

course only for non-Koreans because Koreans, they know what to do.

Flooded

So I got back to my apartment on Saturday night.  I had an email from another girl on my flood saying that her bathroom and laundry room were flooded.  When I tried to take a shower, I encountered a similar predicament.  Having just traveled 27 hours, however, I was not about to go to bed with dirt from two continents all over me.  Here's what happened...

The waters had receded by morning.  I think the pipes are frozen, but someone should come to fix it soon. I hope...