Mussels Gallore!!!

Today at the market...

     Today was a good day... Actually, that makes it seem like there have been bad days, allow me to clarify, there haven't been... Alright now that that's been sorted out. This weekend was good. We went down to the market, collected all kinds of fresh fruit and veggies, I got like 5lbs of fresh mussels for like 3 bucks (seriously, a grocery bag full, she triple bagged it). Yesterday i made a bangin chili, a dare say damn near perfect, tons of peppers but not too spicy, just right, would have killed for some cornbread though. That's something i haven't been able to find here to save my life, but that's a different story. At some point i'll make aist of things i cant get here or are super expensive and i expect you all to buy them and collectively send them to in a timely and orderly fashion... but not today.

        So yea, made an awesome chili yesterday, today i made mussels in a garlic and onion white wine sauce with grated Parmesan. So freakin good... again would have killed for the right bread to have with it... but such it life. And to top the night off just made a fresh batch of Clove and Coriander infused Kahlua. Tonight has already been delightful but will soon be followed by a coma induced by amazing food and White Russians (the drink, not the people although there are a surprising number of those here too)

Fun with directions...

Alright so as promised I will write more... I know i have been slacking at this and making videos in stead of typing is soooo much easier but not all that challenging and definitely doesn't force me to think or anything. Wait, scratch that, I've got to go to class... See why i dont write as much now. Give me time and be patient with me, it'll come back.

     On a quick note, to get my place you take a left down the sketch little ally beside the naughty hair cutting place, walk past the church and the chicken shop. I'm on the left between the Squid restaurant and the Eel restaurant... Never in my life did i think any of those words would be used whiling giving directions to my place... Hahahaha such is life though.

dinner and a show...

my tutorial on making ramen

Merry Christmas from Korea

Alright well, as I'm sure I owe many updates on what all has been going on and what not. I will try my best to catch everyone up to date, as much as possible... Yes these are pictures of me. I'll explain more later.

     So, where did we leave off. second week was rust ending, right... K well,  since then nothing extremely exciting has happened. Ummm the leader of North Korea died... Everyone was in a panic about that for a solid 5 mins and then we returned to a normals lives because as it turns out, nobody cares! The way i see it, if they're still letting military go home for Christmas and my kids (kindergartens and 3rd and 4th graders) aren't talking about then it's probably not that big of a deal. Yes he was a dick, yes it's big news that he's dead, who knows what's gonna happen with the next person to take control (his youngest son from my understanding)... Blah blah blah... To be honest, i'm kinda excited to see what the new kid will do with this new found power he has. Personally, i'm hoping he rebels again dear old dad like a good teenager would and turns the country around. I think the world would shit a brick if out of no where N. Korea suddenly moved to the top of the list. But enough about that stuff...

Mexican food! Fajitas and Coronas (compliments of my friend Millie)

    This last week has seen it's share of Christmas related festivities. There was the "Christmas Party" at cream (a coffee shop/bar a couple blocks away), followed by another work related Christmas party where we ate Vietnamese food and as a company drank a lot of Soju. Then there was the Ugly Sweater party that was held at the local Xpat/foreigner bar. This one actually turned out to be a lot of fun cause once the bar started to close down we went to NoreBong which is Korean for Karaoke. These people love them some karaoke, there were litterally thousands of songs to choose from. Your be proud, I sang a Christmas song (chestnuts roasting on an open fire, i think) and a couple solid Queen songs, tried to find some Blink-182 or Jack Johnson but no luck... i put in a request for some though. OH WOW!!!! Yeah so after that we were all leaving and me and a girl got in a cab to head back to our neighborhood and our cabby backed over one of the girls we were with! Fortunately she was ok, just a little shookin up. One of the big things here in Korea is when the cops do show up, it doesn't matter who started anything, it's who ever is hurt the worse get "blood-money" from the other person involved. So this meant i spent 20 mins hold back a recently run over girl from beating the life out of a possibly inebriated cabby before the cops could get there. Not sure what she actually got out of it, someone said they think she got like 500 bucks and it all got swept away, not bad for a scraped knee if you ask me.


































     The following morning i caught the train from the Expo Center up to Suncheon to spend Christmas with Rachel and Nathan (my roommates from last year). Cause a cab to their place from the station, stopped and picked up some fruit and we were off to another Christmas party. Met a bunch of new people, mostly teacher, some lifers, all friendly and before we knew it it was Christmas! Christmas day was a slow start we all wanted to just rest for a bit, Rachel made an amazing breakfast of pancakes, bacon eggs and coffee. We watched some Christmas movies and more or less just chilled for the day. Nathan made fish and chips for dinner which was amazing and i cant wait to make my own once i finally get some money! Any day now...

    Other than that, nothing's really that new... teaching is same ol' same ol' kids are crazy. Lord bless all of my old teachers, for i knew not what i did... I got to be Santa for the kids at my school, hense the pictures above. All in all it was pretty fun. On that note, i'm tired. Love everyone, thanks for reading...