Actually, they're silkworm larvae. Here is a pic of Daegu, from one of the surrounding mountains. It's hazy just because Daegu is in a valley surrounded on all sides by mountains, not necessarily because of smog, I think.
I've discovered that Korean stationary stores are INFINITY-TIMES cooler than stationary stores in the US. Not only do they have a remarkable proliferation of Engrish-riddled notebooks and spirals, but they have wicked-cool pens and pencils and markers and odds and ends that all look ridiculously girly and cute!! So I was doing a little morning shopping in a stationary store, and I bought several cute things, including those little paper strips you make stars out of, an eraser, some pastel thumb tacks for my room, and a rubber stamp in the shape of some steaming dookie.
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What, you don't believe me? Look at it!!
This is for when I want to get crazy drunk (crunk) on chocolate:
My new classes went fairly well yesterday, despite my schedule listing the wrong room four times. I was irritated, to say the least. Very irritated. In the last class, we were learning about nick-names. I told the kids my old nickname (one of them) was Jo-Banana. They thought this was hilarious, natch, and decided they would invent me a new nickname, Joanna-Ham. ;_;
I realize I'm not a twig like all the other asians, but come on!! I will generously assume that they just thought it sounded funny, and it had no connotations of my girth. I had my revenge though, by calling the boy named "Harry" "Harry Potter" for the rest of the day. So there.
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My first thought when reading this was "how did they get HAM from banana?" And then I scrolled back up to the silk-larvae thing and realized something... in a place where people think that maggots are food, it's not entirely off to think they may have some strange banana-pork smoothie or something.
So don't think of it as some bratt child insulting your (very NOT ham-like) frame... think of it as that poor kid is just remembering what they had for dinner last night.
...Or on second thought they may just be associating you with the year... My money's on the pork-latte though.
*heart*
-Sett
Hahahahaaaa I wooooon! *does a little dance.*
Now.
WHERE ARE MY CUTE AND ADORABLE KOREAN CHILDREN SINGING MY SELECT PHRASE ON VIDEO HMMMMM??!?!
i've never seen those things before.. and no, banana pork smoothies will not be served...
the haze is smog, if you didn't notice from when you stepped off the plane- cough cough.
and korean stationary is not only 100X cooler, it's way hilarious too! have read what they actually say! you might bust a rib.
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