They Know Me So Well.

I need to update this thing more often, its so easy to fall behind with everything that's happening.

Two weeks ago the best thing happened to me at school. I came back to the teacher's room after class and there was a little envelope on my desk. Although it was written in Korean, i could tell that it was in invitation to something. My co-teacher read it and said that it was an invitation for foreign English teachers to eat Korean food.

Lets pause here for a minute. "Please come sample traditional Korean cuisine". You don't have to ask me twice. My goal in life is to experience everything the food world has to offer and here I am getting invited to an afternoon of eating food. There was one little problem however. The tasting was scheduled for 3pm. I have classes till 5. Damn. My Mrs. Lee said that she would call the restaurant and see if I could come at 5 when I'm done teaching.

The next day when I got to school Mrs. Lee came up to me and told me that the City of Yeosu had called the school and said that it was mandatory that I attend the food tasting. SCORE! My school rearranged my schedule and canceled my 4:15 class so that I could go. Yet another reason why I love my school.

The food tasting, or "Food Festival for Foreigners" was awesome. There were a bunch of teachers there and a lot of city officials. The main purpose of the tasting was for us westerners to try Korean food and make note of what we did and did not like about it. This was all for the 2012 Expo. Yeosu wants to know what the average foreigner thinks of Korean food so that they're ready to please western palates when the time comes. Some foods were good, like the spicy roasted eel, the raw flounder, the bulgogi (marinated beef), and espically the "Korean broth for hangover". Some foods were not so good. I found out that steamed abalone does not sit well with me. Not as bad as the sea squirt, but definitely something I will not be eating again. The plum brandy they gave us to wash it down with was much better.