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[nukeday]

1) Saying grace. All the Christian teachers at my school do a little moment of silent grace before eating. Perhaps I just hang out with a different crowd, but I've never seen or heard a Korean say grace when I've gone out to eat with them, and I'm sure at least some of them were hardcore Christians.

Reason? I'm thinking they do it specifically at school to create an image to the other teachers.

2) School lunch is designed to perpetuate the belief that you can only feel full by eating Korean food.

Typical school lunch goes like this: a usually hearty soup with meat and vegetables, a mountain of rice, one or two meats, and one or two vegetables.

Wednesday is foreign food day. Today it was:
bokkeum bap (with a smaller portion of rice than usual), seaweed soup, kimchi, strawberry cake, and ketchup. Ketchup was one of the sides!

One we also often have is Curry Wednesday. curry replaces the soup, then rice, kimchi, and i think last time a churro.

Jajangmyun (or bap) is another one, and the sides are similarly paltry. I think last time there were two, count em two, slices of that pickled yellow radish and then some kimchi. oh, and one small chicken skewer.

There is simply less food, and I always walk away hungry on Wednesday, despite not even getting close to finishing my food most days. Thus, Korean food makes you feel full.

[Steelrails]

[nukeday]

The young ladies (mid 20s) I work with all do their silent prayer too. i'd like to say "oh, it's just my school" but it's a public system and anyone could get placed here. maybe it's a seoul thing, being a heavily christian city.

my co-teacher agrees with you on sports day being some militaristic, patriotic event. it's imported from japan, though. or anyway, they do it too.

funny thing about inside shoes....our cafeteria and main school building are not connected on the main floor, so if you're not using the stairs, you have to walk outside in your indoor shoes. it's OK, though, the pavement is covered.


You reminded me of a more personal one:

My shoe cubby does not have a white name label. It did for awhile say "wonnamin" but that disappeared. They're trying to steal my slippers again. It will happen when I come back from vacation for the new school year.

[rumdiary]

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