Day at the market

The past few nights for dinner, we have had nothing but meat to eat for dinner (mainly pork). Having had more meat the past few days than I have had the past year (Being vegetarian is very difficult in Korea, especially when we do not know what the menu items are and when we do not want to offend our hosts), Aaron and I have been yearning for fresh vegetables. As Aaron was predisposed yesterday with two dinners, I was left alone at home. I decided to try my hand at laundry. My experience consisted of me pressing a big button to turn on the machine, then putting the laundry detergent into the washing machine along with the clothes, then pressing an even larger button to start. The machine showed the time to finish, so I ended up falling asleep while I was waiting. After I woke up, I did the best I could to hand them on a hanging drying rack that was too small. We'll need to go buy a new drying rack with more space.

After hanging everything to dry, I decided to attempt the market. There is a large market one block from our apartment that spans a couple blocks or so. They sell clothing, seafood, pharmacy products, fruit, vegetables, and a whole lot of other stuff. There are even street vendors that sell cooked food. Ugok, where my main middle school is situated, is known for their watermelons, so I was wandering around the streets looking for watermelon. The season is almost over, so it was very diffiult to find. I did eventually find a watermelon, which cost 5000won (~$5) and also bought some grapes for 3000won (~$3). The watermelon here is a lot sweeter and heavier than a watermelon of the same size I would buy in Canada. It was very difficult trying to bring the watermelon home because I had to walk for 5 min or so carrying the really heavy watermelon on a string (not really sure how I should describe it, but it's ingenius :P).

Gaejin Elementary school is quite a lot of fun. I really like the kids and they are really cute ^_^ The classes are really small though. It is somewhat difficult to communicate with some of them as they are at all different levels of English and some do not know what I am saying hen I ask them questions. However, they help each other, so that does help things. I am in charge of greetings and storytime at the elementary school, which is quite a lot of fun even though the students are still quite shy of me. My co-teacher, Ms. Kim, is really nice and quite fluent in English so we can have long conversations.