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Rice: White, cooked with some peas mixed in.
Soup: Seaweed.
Banchan: Steamed garlic stems (!!! I just discovered what these were-- I've been eating them for a year without knowing, and they are AWESOME-- very sweet and tender and I think they have to be nutritious. See if you can get some!!), in a red (pepper) sauce with sesame seeds. Seafood nuggets (basically odeng with egg and... octopus? I can't often tell the tentacles apart when they're cooked like that, and squid is cheaper and used more often for stuff like that, but I think these were octopus. Lotus roots, boiled (?) with chicken-- really nice, once you get past the strangeness. Ggak du gi (again, that's diced daikon gimchi, my favorite ^_^). Some kind of dried baby fish, in red pepper with sesame seeds (surprising?). We teachers also had dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets, because today was the Birthday Party (see below).
I discovered yesterday that our school lunches are all organic. So that's awesome. (I discovered this during an exhaustive session of translation/transscription with my supervisor and the Korean head teacher yesterday. There's a massive overview of the Kindergarten program that they wanted to translate into English, but since that's such an energy-intensive process for a speaker of ESL we were doing it collaboratively-- they explained as well as they could what the Korean passages meant, and I wrote it down in more formal English. It was fun, but after an hour or so I felt like I'd been cramming for a test or something-- much more difficult than you'd think!)
Every two months, the kindergarten has a "birthday party" for all the kids who've had birthdays in the... last two months. *stares at last sentence before moving on* We bring everyone into the auditorium, where tables have been loaded down with masses of food sent in by the birthday kids' parents (most of them trying to outdo each other). We sing to every child who is wearing a birthday hat-- I think once we had to sing the birthday song twelve or thirteen times. O.O One of the Korean teachers, fortunately, plays the piano. :D Then the teachers take pictures with their birthday students (for the parents). The spoils are divided up; I'm not sure why sometimes the teachers get stuff (witness the dinosaurs) that isn't given to the kids, unless maybe there's just not enough of it to go around. Each class usually gets about half a cake and some cookies or yogurt or something. At the end of the day, the students from each class give gifts that they've brought to the birthday students among their classmates. (Someone always forgets; this embarassed and unfortunate soul is usually just told to give the birthday kid a hug and a kiss.)
Can anyone tell me how long GRE scores are good for? I'm thinking about taking it in June, but probably wouldn't apply for grad school for a year after that, or maybe two. Any information appreciated!
Woot, it's FRIDAY, thank god. The weather's cooling down here, finally-- I love fall! Love and kisses to everyone!