A South Korean Experience!

They kept eating while we were cooking- I think we ate just as much as we made! They both had mouths full of food and were laughing when I took this picture, I think it's my favorite one!

Making Song Pyong!

It's tradition for the whole family to make Song Pyong in Korea, so some other Sisters from a near by town came over to help.

They are put on top of pine straw and steamed to cook. See how they look like little moons? That's because Chusok is the Harvest Moon Festival.

The little ones are ground sausage and vegetables and the large ones are fish.

These are slices of Sweet Potatoes battered and fried in a skillet

Slices of fish meat and vegetables stuck together with toothpicks. I usually don't care for fish, but these weren't half bad! The little slices of fish were decorated with tiny little peppers and seasonings.

Making Song Pyong.

Take a break! Time for lunch!

We got to sample some of our fine cooking.

This is the spicy kind of kimchi! There are about 20 different kinds of Kimchi, and I can't eat this kind! Too hot!!!

I got a little closer to that food plot by my school in my walk home. I think I've figured out what some of the crops are...

GARLIC! Look at all of that garlic! I've seen Koreans eat chunks of garlic like candy!

This is the back of my apartment building. I live on the 2nd floor, and those are the screened in back porches that we share. Those glass panels slide open and there are mesh screens behind them.

The entrance to my building.

This is the name of my apartment building.

Kim Bob! It's yummy! There's ham, pineapple, and radish wrapped in rice and dried seaweed.

There's the Kim Bob, spicy kimchi, yellow radish, and sardine soup. Yea, I don't eat the sardine soup. But I tried it! It's not my cup of 'soup'. lol.

These were fish for sale in a market place on the side of the street in Masan.

Walking down the street in Masan at night with Rose and Shannon. There is a lot of music, lights and advertisements!

Streets of Masan.

Streets in Masan during the day time.

A cute Korean store.

My Apartment, Community, and Grocery Shopping!

My Kitchen

Looking into the kitchen from my bed room

The window in my bed room. The frosted glass panel slides open, and then there's a regular window behind that that also slides open. Then there's a screened in porch out there, that also has sliding window panels. My neighbor and I share that porch. We're on the 2nd floor.

This is the sliding door that separates my kitchen from my living area.

My mini fridge and Microwave are in the living area. I have a TV but I don't have cable. It seems like wasted money to me, because all of the channels are in Korean and English CNN costs extra!

My computer table, bookshelf, nightstand, with new lamp and bed.

YES, I got all of those shoes into my suit case! I am the master of packing :)

My new red light lamp, lol!

That's me!

The hose attachment on the sink faucet is my shower head, and the entire bathroom is my shower stall. There's a drain in the middle of the floor for the water. And to the left by the sink is my washing machine and dryer combo, it's a 2-in-1 machine!

THIS IS WHAT MARCO LEFT ME IN MY SINK DRAIN. That basket sits inside of the drain to keep food from going into the drain. He must have not cleaned it ALL YEAR for it to get that bad!

I had to soak both of the sink drains in bleach overnight before I would touch them to wash them! GROSS!

These are the stairs to my apartment building. My building manager likes plants, they are all around the parking garage too!

The hallway to my apartment. Mine is the second one on the left. Apt #205!

This is the view out of my apartment floor window.

My Mail Box! #205- it's empty people! :)

This is one of the many hills I have to walk up to get to school!

Here's the entire hill, from the bottom.

This is private land by my school, I see a lot of different people planting and growing things out there each morning.

This is a view of the back of my school from the street. Thats the play area.

The front of my public school from the street.

The public school sits on this hill!

This is my office at the Catholic School.

The tea cabinet in my office. Very cool!

This is my desk.

I live on this street.

This is the park by my apartment.

This is a view of the Bay from Masan. We went there to apply for my alien registration card.

part of Masan.

Boats in the bay by Masan.

part of Masan.

Chusok is coming soon, and it's a very big holiday here in SK. The stores are going crazy selling gift sets. This gift set is $148, I don't know what those roots are from, but they better be pretty good quality to be that much money!

A gift set containing different varieties of sardines! YUCK. $47 for yucky fish!

These are PEARS! Look at how big they are!

Fish is really big here. No thanks.

Want to buy some squid?

Live lobsters and crab in the supermarket.

Happy Chusok! Here's a gift set with fish in it!

YUM... Octopus.

Grocery shopping in Korea is much different from grocery shopping in America!

They split these fish open, I don't know why...

These are bags of Squid jerky, kind of like beef jerky, but with Squid.

Awww, look at the friendly squid. Let's eat him!

The picture is blurry so I don't know if you can see it, but these are jars of dried baby shrimp, so small- those little black dots are their eyes! People just eat them like that, whole handfuls at a time!

And I saved the best gift set for last- $35 for a gift set of SPAM. yummy.