Day in day out I have many weird little foreign experiences that make my trip. Sometimes I get to capture them in pictures.
The other day one of the after school elementary boys brought in a chicken in plastic bag., like it was a fish or something.
I made it a little house out of some extra crap laying around the classroom, but of course he took it out of the container and put it in the bag. The poor chicken probably didn't make it threw the weekend.
Is this where all of the unsold candy canes end up... under import goods, relabeled as dum-dums in Korea. They cost about four US dollars.
I don't even know how to begin using this. I hate it when I need to use a public bathroom and this is what I get stuck with. You just never know if you'll get a seat or not.
Hot dog pizza...mmm. I kind of figured out the Korean obsession with hot dogs. There is a couple authentic, old-style recipes in Korean culture that are hot dog based. It stems from the Korean war and what the poor Korean civilians were able to obtain from US military bases... baked beans, hot dogs, etc. So you'll find hot dogs from street vendors, malls everywhere and corn dogs, too.
The man bag. Not a computer bag, but the man bag. VERY popular here in Korea. Also, it seems like on top of man rocking their own purse, every Korean man holds their girlfriends purse. You'll see many doubled pursed dudes walking around.
As for recent experiences photoless, I met a foreigner from Miami the other day at Starbucks and he talked my ear off for literally four hours. The gist of the conversation that I was unable to contribute to because he talked so much was..."If you are not having orgies with Thai women, doing lines of cocaine and scared that you have the virus, then you aren't really traveling."
For the most part this is what that foreign teaching population is like here if they aren't religious or complete losers trying to fit in a new life here.
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