Hey! This is Derek writing. I decided that one way that I could contribute to "our" blog is to take some pictures of school food and show it to all of you who read our blog. I thought this would be pretty interesting.
School food anywhere is interesting. School food in Korea...well, very interesting. Probably much more healthy then American school food, but also much more questionable. One of the things that I quickly noticed about eating school lunches in Korea is that everybody eats everything, regardless of what it is, and sometimes not knowing what the heck it is. Once and a while I'll ask a co-teacher who's sitting next to me in the teacher's lunch room, "What is this?" They usually don't know. That's when I go to the kitchen and ask, "Igae meo ye yo?" (Korean for "What is this?").
So, everybody eats everything. I eat about half. If I don't get enough I'll go to a convenience store around the school. If there's nothing that looks edible, I'll go get some fried rice or kimbap at a restaurant. Without further ado, here are some pics of school lunches.
(Above) This is some fish stuff. I don't usually eat this.
I think this is meatballs. Little balls of meat in semi-spicy red pepper sauce. It's okay. I'll usually eat it. But you gotta watch out, cause sometimes the cooks will trick you and it's tofu instead of meat. Tofu is really common. Comes in all different forms. Probably have it 3 times a week in some form for lunch.
Rice. Everyday. Every meal.
It's always exciting when they serve yoghurt for lunch. I usually take at least 3.
This is just diced cucumber in spicy red sauce. (You'll notice that everything comes in spicy red pepper sauce).
This is meat balls again. The white things are rice cakes. Super popular.
Every meal comes with a soup. Koreans don't really drink much liquids with their meals; they have soup instead. (It was hard to get used to not having any water or other liquids with a meal. But it's kinda grown on me now). I don't usually eat the soups. Many have seaweed in them. Some of them smell really bad.
This day, I went out to a restaurant with my co-teachers. This is the typical layout of a Korean meal-many sidedishes. I usually can't tell what most of the side dishes are.
Like this one. Maybe spinach? Doesn't taste like it though. Weird.
I ordered mandu (dumplings) at this restaurant. All they had were kimchee mandu. Oh well.
The infamous kimchee. Comes with every meal. Still haven't acquired a taste for it.
Back at school. This is one of the soups I'll eat. Kinda like Chinese egg drop soup.
This day I went out to eat at a restaurant around my school. I usually either get shrimp fried rice from a chinese restaurant or this, Dongas. It's a pork cutlet with gravy on top. Pretty good. Notice the salad-cabbage with ketchup.
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Since I had my camera at school, I thought I'd take some pics of my students playing outside during lunch time.
This is Tae-oo. If you followed my blog when I first got here you might remember him. He follows me around. Comes to my classroom every day during lunch to hang out. He's pretty funny. He's hyperactive and pretty wild sometimes, but his English is actually pretty good.
Some of my 3rd year students (roughly 8th grade).
These three boys have been coming to my classroom every lunch time for a few weeks now. Pretty funny kids.
Some girls.
The basketball boys.
My school. My classroom is on the first floor on the right.
Hope you enjoyed all of these pictures. I hope you got a sense of what our life in Korea is like a little bit. Home in 2 1/2 month!! Peace, Derek
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