email: cook your own meat

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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007
03:53:01 +0000
dear mom and dad,

last night was the "termly" cdi dinner. every term (three months), the teachers go out for dinner and drinks and cdi picks up the tab. i went along this time. there've been other social things the school has done for the teachers since ive been here: mostly bars and bowling, but alcohol has lots of calories, and i suck at bowling, so i didnt go to any of the gatherings. well, more so b/c of the weather than anything else, it's so cold that all i want to do after work is get home and get under those covers. people teased me last night, surpised that i came to the dinner, 'What? Sha's here? It must be getting closer to spring!." shoot, im a sun spoiled san diegan, what can i say?

we went to some restaurant in Beoyomge, one subway stop from where i live, where you cook your own meat at your table. the restaurant served a TON of side dishes: some sort of potato pancake, lots of coleslaw with rice vinegar, lots of dipping sauces, peppers galore, kimchi, and big fluffy scrambled eggs? yes, eggs. interesting. they were good though, the fluffiest eggs i've ever seen in my life.

im pretty sure all the meat we ate was pork. my co-worker asked me what it was and i said,"Dog." her eyes about popped out of her head! i told her i was just kidding, i didnt know what it was and figured it for pork. she told me that dog is the most expensive meat one can buy here in korea, so she highly doubts cdi picked the tab for that. ~sha