Icecream Adventures

From my understanding desert is a fairly new idea to Korean culture.  Traditionally their meals don't include it and at many restaurants it isn't even offered on the menu.  The few times we have been served desert in an restaurant here it has consisted of some type of fruit rather than a sweet baked item.  Desert as a "snack" or at another location after you meal is really starting to catch on however.  They are particularly partial to Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin Robbins.  They are seriously EVERYWHERE!  I can think of at least four within a few block radius of where we live!  Baskin Robbins is good but since our most favorite adventure thus far has been to Italy, we are a little partial to Italian style ice cream called, "gelato".  Needless to say we were thrilled when we spotted what appeared to be a little Italian style coffee shop that sold gelato.  We were even more thrilled when we checked it out and the the atmosphere and the ice cream were great!

It was a really good find and I am sure we will be going back often!  However I'm not sure that we will be trying some of the Korean specific flavors of gelato that we saw advertised. . . 

Advertisement/Employment Adventures

We often come home to advertisement fliers tapped to our door.  

Usually we can’t read them but sometimes when walking around downtown we have recognized the restaurant or business they were advertising.  Imagine my surprise when I got home today and saw a flier on our door with some words I recognized. . . . 

My NAME!  AND my PICTURE!!!

Don’t worry, I’m not wanted for a crime or missing.

I’m a new teacher at an after school language academy here in Pyeongtaek!  

I get to teach English as a second language to Korean children ranging from Kindergarten to Junior High during the afternoons!  It is quite the new experience for me.  I am enjoying it very much but also have a whole new respect for both moms and teachers.  My Mom is  is BOTH so I am pretty much am in awe of her.

*Editors note- I DID know I had the job before seeing the flyer on the door but I DIDN'T have any idea that I had been hired just in time to make their fall advertisement distro or that it would be posted on every door in my apartment building.  Yikes!