It's finally October. Apparently blogspot has been disabled on all of the school computers (it really did not help that I somehow ended up opening 20 tabs of my blog at one of my schools -.-;), which is why I have not been writing. So much has happened as of late! The seasons are changing and I notice the leaves of the persimmon tree are starting to fall off. The forests are starting to shed their leaves, distributing yellow, red, and brown leaves everywhere. The rice fields are starting to turn yellow and I think the harvest time will be near. Maybe by next week, the fields will be barren!
We found a Costco in Daegu. It's a bit far from the subway station, so we took a taxi last time, but there is so much Western food there. It's almost like the Costco back home. A little bit of a reminder of home.
We have also started volunteering at the local animal shelter. It is separated into the cat and dog compound. The cats live in an abandoned house and a backyard, but the dogs live on the 3rd and 4th floor of a building in cages. Aaron and I have decided that we will walk, wash, and possibly groom the dogs as they require the most attention. Apparently a lot of owners just let their dogs go into the street when it becomes too expensive to take care of them. One of the dogs now at the shelter was found in a forest. It was left to die with a wire wrapped around its neck! Understandably, it is afraid of us and we only saw it peeking around the corner before it ran away to hide again.
The food here is amazing. We have been going to grill restaurants and ordering randomly off of the menu as we had no clue what most of the words meant. However, I wrote down some of the menu items and had them translated. There was a somewhat embarassing moment when the owner grabbed the menu from me because he saw me copying it. He probably thought I was trying to steal some trade secret or something? Anyways, there are two types of grill restaurants where we have been to. The first one has a metal slate that is heated where the meat is cooked on, and the other one is a round metal plate with holes and is heated by coals underneath. Both places have about the same menu. At one point, we ordered something that we had no idea what it was. It looked like the backbone of something small and I thought it tasted like eel. However, when I asked one of my teachers about the translation, they said it was called hagfish.... Look that up @_@ Oddly enough, Aaron does enjoy it, but I find it tastes somewhat weird.
Chuseok weekend, which was a 4 day weekend, was really relaxing for Aaron and I. We spent most of the time at home. It was too difficult to travel around as everyone was doing the same thing, trying to get back to their home towns. For Chuseok, people go home to their families and home towns (or wives go to their husband's families) to spend time together and visit their ancestors' graves. The women prepare a lot of food to eat and to take to the graves to be blessed. I was invited by my co-teacher, Mrs. Kim from Gaejin Elementary school, to join her family in the preparation of food. I got to meet her family and helped prepare a lot of tasty food :P Afterwards, her mother-in-law packed containers and containers of food for me to take home so that Aaron could try. There is still a lot sitting in the fridge because we cannot finish it all.
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