The Korean Diet

I wish I had some Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits  right now. Then again,  I look at my far trimmer figure and think if only Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers took this formula to the States then everyone would be 3-4 sizes smaller in 1 month. Think about it for a second.  

The formula is simple:

2 weeks worth of breakfasts-     1 nectarine, 1 egg, and a cup of bland rice

An occasional lunch of old/stinky meat with jelly noodles

No dinner whatsoever

2 weeks later: a bowl of cereal for breakfast with a banana

  a bowl of Ramen for Lunch with a nectarine

  a bowl of whatever you can make on your stove when you get in from work very   late for dinner.

*Try to eat everything with stainless steel chopsticks and wash everything down with a glass of water or cashew tea. Weight loss is guaranteed.

In other news, Erin's bed has not arrived yet. We were told our beds would be delivered on Tuesday. I was the only one to get a bed. Apparently the headmistresses at the school completely forgot about Erin. They said "Oh, we will have it delivered Thursday". It didn't arrive. Erin is pretty upset almost as upset as I was when my luggage got lost. In the meantime, Erin and I are sleeping on my bed. It is Queen sized and looks as though it was possessed by Barney. It is a black ad purple "mattress" that is a far cry from the standard American mattresses that we are all used to. First of all it feels as though I am still sleeping on the floor. It seems to me like it is supposed to be the boxspring for a bed set. 

Erin and I went to E-Mart to buy a fitted sheet and was surprised to find that bed linens are ridiculously expensive here. First of all they don't do sets of anything. You have to buy the pillowcases, flat, and fitted sheets all separately. The fitted sheet cost around thirty dollars and maybe its that I worked at a certain Swedish retailer for a long time but I can't bring myself to pay that kind of money. I looked around and noticed that a bona fide comforter cost as much as the fitted sheet. I thought to myself 1. If I use the comforter it will act as maybe a bed pad and 2. It was quite pretty.

So, Erin and I purchased that along with some other necessities. We left E-Mart around midnight and noticed that we didn't really know the way home. You see Ruby and The Grunter had dropped us off there after they transported my 3 drawer chest home. Due to my pretty great sense of direction I guesstimated that our building was several streets over and we had to cut through some side streets. Yeah, uh...bad idea. Our first "street" was what Erin called "a really great place if you want to get murdered or raped". I had to agree, It was a dirt path that ran between an unlit park and some ramshackle houses that had broken chicken wire fences. When we got to the end of that street we walked through an apartment complex that was completely unlit. From there we got to an unfamiliar street and had to decide to walk left or right. Erin said "I think we should go left but since I have a horrible sense of direction it's best if we go right". I said "OK then". You should also note that we were carrying a lot of crap in our hands and I refused to get a cab cause I felt that we were very close to the house. We almost got hit by a cab while crossing the road (side note: All the drivers here accelerate if they see you trying to cross a street cause they don't want to have to slow down). We walked for roughly 10 minutes when I spotted the side of our building down an alleyway (another side note: apartment buildings have designs and names on the side for this exact purpose). This alley was worse than the first one, I thought that if someone wanted to kill a person then there wasn't a better place to do it. Imagine a very dark alley with vans parked on the sides and we were apparently behind some businesses. You can't see much except for your building in the distance. Scary. Good news- we eventually got to our place safe and sound. 

On lighter and better news- Ruby and her husband are going to the Philippines to see about opening another school. They will be gone tomorrow and won't be back till Monday. I feel as though my weekend started the second they left the school tonight. I don't know what's in store tomorrow but I know it'll be better than today. I'm off to bed now. Hasta luego! 

-Jenny Penny