Folex

I'd like to apologize for not writing much lately, but I have been trying to get out more. This week at school I had to teach my first cooking class. I made grilled ham and cheese sandwiches for the kids. I think they were kind of hesitant to eat them because I don't think they eat many sandwiches over here, let alone ones with ham and cheese. A lot of the kids would say "ham no" when I was putting the sandwiches together. Once they tried them they wanted more.

At work on Friday we had the monthly birthday party. The school throws a party for all the kids who had a birthday during the month. For lunch we had some sort of chicken nuggets, sushi, apples, bananas, cake, and pizza. The pizza was weird. I think it was from Papa Johns. Koreans put some weird stuff on pizza. This one had bacon, onions, olives, some sort of mystery meat, and potato wedges. If you want to see some weird pizza go to this website: Pizza Etang

On Friday I went out with Dan in his neighborhood. He says his area is known as the "ghetto of Seoul". Unlike my neighborhood, his is very busy. The subway ride there was insane. If you have ever seen packed Asian subways on tv, double the amount of people and that's what I had to deal with. We went to some place and met up with some Korean guys he knows. They were pretty cool guys. One of the Korean bartender girls kept telling me I was cute. Afterwards we went to a Korean barbecue and had some pork. I ate more kimchi this time around. I also had some weird dried minnows. You pull off the head and then dip them in some sort of sauce.

On Saturday I went with Dan to the casino. We played blackjack and I was up 100,000 won before losing my winnings. I left when I was at the amount I started with, so I didn't lose any money. If I knew how to play I would probably have actually won a decent amount of money. I left at like 11:45 and was able to make it halfway to my place before the subways shut down. I took my first cab and the guy dropped me off way too far from my place. I had to walk for like half an hour before I made it home.

Today I went to Namdaemun Market to look for a watch and a wallet. One of the teachers gave me a nice watch, but it is a ladies watch and it is kind of tight on me. I bought a nice fake Rolex at the market. It's a Submariner and it looks very real. The movement of the hands is right, and the markings are all correct. I couldn't find a wallet, mainly because I can't tell the difference between the men's and women's styles of designer wallets.

I am going to try and go to a festival next weekend, or maybe one of the nights this week. October is apparently the month for festivals. I was going to go to a food festival today, but upon reading the website, it was actually more of an expo for food companies and buyers. There is a small business expo some time this month, and an environmental expo this week.