Update
Sorry I haven't been updating like I usually do this past week has been hectic. Ji-Hye my co-teacher is out due to knee surgery. I've been teaching the kids by myself.
Here's my thanksgiving Ricki brings home a rabbit story
So last weekend I had "Thanksgiving" . I made chicken and macaroni Au gratin with gravy and corn. Kelly bought an ice cream cake and gin with lemonade(not the greatest tasting drink in the world I only had a little).
On Saturday I went to the Lotte Mart to find some cooking thread to sew up the chicken's hiney. Kelly was also there and we went looking for the cooking thread and other various things to complete the dinner together. While there I discovered they had a pet area with mini rabbits. I went to E-Mart (Korean Walmart) 2 weeks before and saw mini rabbits and was thinking about getting one. They are soo adorable. I wanted to get one but was still deciding. After going around the store we ended up by the pets again and I decided I wanted to get one right then and there. I picked the cutest and smallest rabbit there. It's pretty cold here so after we paid for all our stuff Kelly decides to pack the rabbit in a box and then we put the box in the cage and we carry him home that way. We got home and were playing with it (turns out it was a he) and petting him and we named him Snickerdoodles because he looked like a Snickerdoodle cookie and I was calling him Snickers for short. After we gave Snickers some food we went on a hunt for a pretty cake for dessert. We stopped at this french bakery and since we were the only ones in there and the workers were staring at us we ended up buying a piece of garlic bread or toast not really sure. The cakes there were expensive so we went to Baskin Robbins cause we thought their cakes were really pretty and we were sure they were open. We ended up getting the cake you see in the pictures somewhere in one of the other posts. I am just so fascinated with the packaging in Korea. Everything is so cute I love it. We got home and I started cooking the chicken. We never found the cooking thread by the way. It came out really good and we had a bootleg Thanksgiving but it was something. It made me sad and happy at the same time. I was home sick for my moms cooking but then my sister put things in perspective. Did I really miss the drama we have to go through every year on thanksgiving day?... and I didn't so I was ok with that. lol.
Co-Worker and students party
The next day Sunday was the birthday party of one of my students who happened to be the daughter of one of the teachers in the school. The student was so cute and she wrote out this little invite for me and delivered it to my room. I thought it would have been weird for her but she didn't seem like she minded at all. I met her at the school playground and her and her friend walked me back to her house across the street. When we got to her house my co-worker put me to work making Kimpap it's almost like a sushi roll but it has ham and egg instead of fish. It's really good and easy to make. Then her eldest daughter bought home the pizza. Her eldest daughter is 20 and she apparently lives by me but we didn't get a chance to talk 2 much so I never found out exactly where. The chicken was delivered next in those nifty kid conscience cups. It was not chicken nuggets in soda it was soda in the bottom part of the cup and chicken nuggets in another compartment in the cup and I don't think the heat from the nuggets affected the soda either it I was fascinated by it. I got a box of fried chicken though I would have enjoyed the nuggets cup also. In Korea they cut the cake before they " start " the party I guess. Maybe the kids all get hopped up on sugar before they eat and then run around get tired so you kind of kill 2 birds with one stone. Kids run around at parties anyway and then after the cake they run some more but if you give them cake before hand they don't get that second wind. But that's just me being silly. But all in all it was a good party. The students who lived there and their parents were so surprised to see me. I guess church had just let out because there were at least 10 students I saw.
Snickers last days
So as you know by now if you've been reading the comments Snickers died on Tuesday night. I had him for like 3 days. He seemed fine the first 2 days and then on Tuesday he seemed a little off. He hadn't eaten alot and he was sniffling. I had put him on my bed like always and he was hopping around at first but when i sat down he sat with his butt toward my butt and just sat there. Then after I put him back in his cage he started having diarrhea. He looked so sad in his cage and he wouldn't eat or drink. Finally I took him out of his cage wrapped him in a towel and held him trying to make him eat or drink. I stayed up with him and he drank a little and I put him back in his cage. I woke up in a few hours and he was dead =( . I wonder if I stayed up with him would he have died ? This was the first animal that died in my care. I was really upset I had bonded with him and I had some numbers of vets that I would have taken him 2. I went to school upset and at lunch time I asked one of my co-workers to come with me to the store so I could take Snickers back. Kyoung Ja went with me to return Snickers cage and all to the store. Turns out Snickers had a stomach problem the person who worked in the pet dept. told Kyoung Ja. After 30 minutes of back and forth with the manager I got a refund on Snickers and the cage.
posted by Ricki in Korea @ 12:37 PM
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