WWJD

I might just start a new blog called What Jaemin Wore or I will just change the name of this blog. He is far more interesting than me anyway. On Wednesday he was wearing tan skinny pants, light brown pointy shoes with skinny laces (like men’s dress shoes). On top he had a white cable knit sweater button up sweater. The buttons were big marble brown. Over top of the sweater, he was wearing a flannel black and red checked vest with metal snaps up the front. He also had a brown “trucker” hat with fake fur on the brim. I guess it was his hipster lumberjack day. And at the end of class he said, “see you next time teacher”. Broke my heart. On Friday I’m going to try to teach him “How are you?” and “I am fine/angry/tried/happy/sad...etc”. We’ll see how it goes.

On Wednesday evening a desire for bulgogi lead Sally, Director Lim, his girlfriend, Kim, Park (all the way out from wherever he works now), and I to a restaurant that doesn’t serve bulgogi. Getting that stuff is pretty difficult considering that it is everybody’s favourite food. If you even mention bulgogi, the eyes of most Koreans light up. But hardly any restaurants seem to serve it. Anyway, we settled for samgupsal. It was delicious, again, as usual. This time we had rice and soup with it too. In restaurants I have actually only eaten a few meals with rice. Everybody was all, I hope you like rice, but all the best meals don’t actually have rice unless you order it specifically on the side. Except the shabooshaboo, which is technically a Japanese dish (that I love).

A note on Lim and his lady friend. She works at a different KTW branch, and although there is no rule against it, they choose to mostly keep their relationship on the DL. I had never met her before Wednesday night. She is really cute and he is really cute when he is with her. He gets a little more manly, a little more take charge. It’s funny. Also funny is how at the end of the meal, as we stood to go, she grabbed the check and immediately handed it to him. I love that we all know who is paying for our meals. He’s the wonjongnim, the boss, so he is obviously going to pay.

After the meal, Lim and his lady left (he carrying her purse), Kim was tired so he took off too. Park took Sally and I out for a pint and fruit platter. I’m am going to leave this country thinking that beer and fruit are a actually a good combination and then in Canada get pissed off when I can’t find a fruit platter on the menu. The presentation is always lovely though. With everything cut and arranged all fancy and decorative paper cut outs on the edges. Also, the fruit is delicious and they don’t skimp on anything. This platter even had grapes (podo), grapes that are almost worth their weight in gold and apples (sagwa), which can also be quite expensive.

After a pint, we went for ice cream at the nearest convenience store. I had a frozen waffle fish with ice cream in the centre. Sub par to be sure, but I now harbour dreams of real fresh waffle fish, still warm, with a large dollop of ice cream and perhaps some chocolate sauce on top. This was just a pre-packaged manufactured variety. In Korean, the waffle fish are literally called fish bread. The word for bread is ppang or bbang; I don’t know the correct word for fish. I love them though. I really really do.

I am currently sitting at my kitchen table (I write that is if it is not also my bedroom, living room, dinning room, and entrance table as well) and I am trying to get an internet signal so that I can post this blog. Looking through the list of signals that my are floating around my head. One of them is named IloveJesus. Of course you need a password to access that signal, but I think that if you love really love Jesus you should share your Internet signal with me. That’s all I’m saying. WWJD. He would share with me and with all the little children of the world. Even the red and yellow ones, but not their adult parents, at least from what I understand.

I'll keep you posted on what Jaemin is wearing on Friday.

Less then a week until T-Fuck and Lolo!

Dee

December 11. 2008