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[visviva]

I miss having an oven. My GOD, do I need to bake some bread. Stovetop bannock just doesn't cut it. Also I miss my dog.

[Cabbit]

I miss COMIC BOOKS most of all

Heinz Big Red Tomato Soup

Multicultural food and events, such as~~

Bookapoochies, baklavas, hummus, pita bread, foccacia bread.......

dim sum shops (especially at Lunar New year when the lion dancers will come in and bless the shop while you eat!!)

lebanesse coffee (short, black, thick and very very strong)
~~~
Shopping for clothes and not having to do the stretch test

Buying sexy bra's and lingere at whim

THE BEACH!!!! ( I know Korea has nice beaches......but I miss my good old Aussie beaches!!)

Red dirt

Sub Cultures

I hate to say it but STEAK.....
I think Im becoming anemic (sp?)here

There is more..............
and to be kind here is a list of things I will miss from Korea.................

Odeng stands
GALBI
pretty much all the good Korean food
cute kids saying "goodbye" when they see you on the street
fast internet
four seasons (I will miss spring the most)
kind and friendly strangers
cheap taxis
cute girlie shops
femininity
colourful pets
the markets!!
kind ajumas
extra vegies for your smile
mountains
squirrels
cherry blossoms
chusuk and sol-nal
my students
travel
TEMPLES (we have one in my home city)
being able to wear a swastika and not be called a nazi
Insadong
Health drinks

there is so much more and I will post it when I return to Oz

Peace

[chi-chi]

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[The Great Wall of Whiner]

sickboy wrote:

[sickboy]

kck,

You mean the owner? I know him too, used to get it brought out with friends from Canada.. it wasn't aquired locally.

Damn that was a good bar.

Quite frankly, I am quite interested in learning how to make my own though...

[kimcheeking]

sickboy,

yeah the owner. It was a great bar. The best buffulo wings this side of the pacific.

[mack the knife]

SHINER BOCK...if you've ever been to TEXAS, 'nuff said...

[udenjoe]

I have to say I miss blind patriotism. On a more serious note I miss:

Close friends of 10 years.

SUVs and urban sprawl

Cheap gas

Driving

Hunting and snowmobile seasons (not really).

Beaches that don't have blue tubes going out to sea or bouys to hold you in or cyclone fences.

Blind patriotism.

War on terror (I miss it here to because it seems like it's already over).

Going to my favorite record store Neptune Records.

Buttery bland foods.

Expensive Korean food

24 resturants that always serve breakfast

Illicit drugs, you name it

2am bar closed ("You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here!")

Having to pour money into and relying on an automobile.

Camel cigarettes

Large dogs

Only two traffic jams at the same two times only on the weekdays

Live bands

Good music culture

Avoiding certain places that may be dangerous in the city

Going to potentially dagerous parts of the city where the best bars are

Living in the part of the city where two blocks away you would never go to after dark

Seeing different kinds of people

No having to think about what kind of language to use for the certain person I'm talking to

Big cell phones

AMERICAN Princesses

[Stunted Wookie]

Donairs.
Cheese
Being a pizza cook by trade (A real trade in NS I suspect) I could go nuts here....but alas no oven...

Uechi-Ryu Karate
Tim Hortons ...anyone wanna split on a shop?
silence
the quiet rural road leading out to other quiet rural roads
seeing horses, dairy farms...and live animals in the woods.
Nova Scotian rednecks
The Rez
the peelers (ralphs)
Turkish coffee and Ouzo (spent too much time with pizza shop co-workers)
Alexander Keiths Beer (pronounced 'Keets'; as in Gimmie a Keets while you're there")
Lune cruizing (driving around wasting gas)
Sobeys and Superstore
IMAX
wing night....15c a wing with the purchase of a drink
Diet Pepsi

....so many to think of. Interesting how we all write these down and they give some insight to who we are, even if only to ourselves...

Still while we miss so many different things from home we are probably all here for only a handful of similar reasons. Think how when we achieve what we want to here; just how good those things will be when we decide to return to them!

Cheers

[exportedhabster]

Things I miss:
family
my mother's food, especially pie
friends
keith's beer
wrestling tournaments on the playstation with my friends
watching the habs
CFL
grass (not the stuff you smoke)
trees
quiet
a refreshing breeze
tim hortons
being considered an average weight
coffee crisp
cheaper books
canadian tv (or at least more English stations)

For those who are new to Korea, COSTCO is really helpful for getting by. I know there are a couple of locations in Seoul: Yang jae and I think Young dung po (sp?)

[Ody]

1. avocado
2. olives
3. fresh salmon
4. good cheese
5. conch roties

[insert lip-smacking icon]

[cosmicgirlie]

You know all you Tim Hortons lovers....if you write the company enough letters you might be able to get a shipment sent over to you and you might even be featured on one of those "our story" commercials
I write a letter everyday in hopes they'll send me a can of the good stuff!!!

[exportedhabster]

I had a can of gorund Tim Horton's coffee in Canada, and it just wasn't the same as the double double you get at the drive-through. A chocolate glazed, boston cream and bavarian cream sound good right about now.

[Cthulhu]

Ody,

Assuming you are not in a rural area, avocados (though pricey) and olives are easy to find in the larger supermarket chains here. Carrefour and Homeplus have them. I assume other chains do as well.

[exportedhabster]