Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Good things about Korea
So, there are plenty of great things about Korea. First of all, the food. This places has, by far, the best food in the world. If you like spicy food, this place is heaven. And it's relatively cheap, too. Kimchi Chigea (kimchi stew), is usually about $3.50 per person and it's my favorite food and it's spicy enough to make me sweat every time.
The people are, by and large, pretty nice if you make the effort to be nice to them. They will try to talk to you if they think that they can. That's a benefit of being a foreigner ... the usual rules don't apply.
If someone doesn't like you, you usually know. You'll get the evil ajumma eye or something. This sounds like a bad thing, but it makes me feel like the people that I've talked to that I thought liked me really do. I think that people are pretty honest about their feelings ... and by honest I mean "in your face." Hahahah. It's cool, though.
My kids rule. I'm going to miss them more than anything when I leave. I like them all for one reason or another. I wish I could take some of them back with me.
And my friends are great. I don't have that many, but the people here that I talk to I really like. They are refreshing to talk to and they're all good people.
The soju is good, if you can stomach it. I think that very few people can actually deal with straight-up soju. Maybe a third of the Koreans and me can do it. And Maura, of course. But the flavored soju is slammin'. Lots of people like that, and with good reason.
The people are, by and large, pretty nice if you make the effort to be nice to them. They will try to talk to you if they think that they can. That's a benefit of being a foreigner ... the usual rules don't apply.
If someone doesn't like you, you usually know. You'll get the evil ajumma eye or something. This sounds like a bad thing, but it makes me feel like the people that I've talked to that I thought liked me really do. I think that people are pretty honest about their feelings ... and by honest I mean "in your face." Hahahah. It's cool, though.
My kids rule. I'm going to miss them more than anything when I leave. I like them all for one reason or another. I wish I could take some of them back with me.
And my friends are great. I don't have that many, but the people here that I talk to I really like. They are refreshing to talk to and they're all good people.
The soju is good, if you can stomach it. I think that very few people can actually deal with straight-up soju. Maybe a third of the Koreans and me can do it. And Maura, of course. But the flavored soju is slammin'. Lots of people like that, and with good reason.
