Things I Love About Korea

I've compiled a list of just a few things I love about living in South Korea.

- First of all, ondol heating. It's awesome! The heat comes through the flooring and it's warm and toasty on bare feet. It also dries your clothes fairly quickly, as clothes dryers in Korea are non-existent.
- Ridiculously easy and cheap transportation.
- Bibimbab: a rice dish with beef, egg and vegetables all mixed together. It's freaking awesome and someone should write a song about it.
- Galbi: marinated grilled short ribs; this stuff is amazing. I don't know what they marinate it in, but it's damn tasty and I would consider staying in Korea for the rest of my days solely to eat galbi!
- Samgyeopsal: essentially this is grilled bacon and then mixed with kimchi on a lettuce leaf with some rice. De-to-the-vine!
- Gimbap: rice, pork and vegetable seaweed roll. I eat this stuff all the time, it really has become a part of my daily diet.
- Gyul: tiny mandarin oranges. I eat about five a day. They completely rock and my students give them to me frequently, which makes me extremely happy.
- The innocence of the Korean people, especially the Korean children.
- Feeling completely and totally safe walking down the street (especially after living in Vegas).
- How excited kids get when they see you, especially outside of the classroom.
- Street food vendors (they are beautiful, beautiful people, especially after a long night at a Hof).
- The little warm pastry ball things sold by the street vendors. I don't know what they're called, but they have some sort of custard filling. I'm not sure exactly what's in them, but they completely rock and smell amazing!!!!
- Cheap prescription drugs.

This is a short list that I will be adding to as the remaining 6 months of my contract progresses. There are more things that I love here, but I'll get to the rest later.