Cooking.

Hey Everybody!

So Friday was the cooking day we were totally looking forward to (not). It was exactly how we imagined; we were totally in charge of babysitting all day while our supervisor fucked off early. Oh, and what made it worse, was they made the teacher they fired the week before, train the new teacher! The morning meeting was a disaster. To make a long story short, I (Tara) told the principal that it was offensive that her hired supervisor never listened to me and it was totally offensive that they want me to "try harder" in the classroom because two kindergartens (the brattiest of brats) dropped out. Personally, I'm relieved that I don't have to deal with the bullshit of those two spoiled kids and their parents. I will not reward bad behaviour, especially when I am not allowed to discipline the kids. I am somehow expected to control the class by making them sing songs they don't care about. All I can say is the glass of cheap beer I had last night made it all better. Oh, and thoughts of the Philippines!

Perhaps I was a little bitter because a man on the street was chasing some high school boys, telling them to go stand by the "yongo" people. (english). He ran to hit one of the boys but hit me instead. He kept yelling at us and made big X's in the air infront of us. This kind of thing is scary.

Today has been a good day so far. Brendan and I went for a nice long walk on a mountain this morning. It's quiet there now. Nobody here likes the "cold." It's been pretty nice out. No snow. No cold winds, like we are used to. The leaves are all brown now, and there are still some attached to the trees on the hills. They actually hire people to take the leaves off of the trees on the streets. There are a lot of strange jobs around here. Whenever I see it, I call it "job creation," because there are so many people here. It's probably how they keep the unemployment rate so low, having so many random jobs. What are these random jobs, you ask? Well, sweeping all the roads in the morning with a very small, plastic broom, holding signs for hours, bowing at the doors of stores, and women all dressed up wearing sashes walking around for hours.


Hmm. Here are some pictures from cooking day. The kids are cute. That's what made it all okay. We made, dok-po-ki. It's really easy to make. You just add rice cake (big pieces of rice gluten), fishcake, cabbage, onions, carrots, chili powder, chili sauce, and starch syrup to boiling anchovy broth. Its okay to eat. Its a little heavy, so it is good as a side dish.