Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone over there in Canada!

I hope everyone is with their families/friends and is getting full of awesome food. I just had cream of corn soup. It was better than I had expected, but no match for the usual Thanksgiving dishes...

In honour of the season, I will compose some lists:

Things I am thankful for in Korea:
1. There is no enforcement of the garbage bag policy. You see, in Korea, you have to buy certain garbage bags to have your trash picked up. We don't know where to buy them, and thankfully, we haven't gotten in trouble for throwing our shopping bags filled with trash into the disposal area.
2. The school board bought us an iron. Seriously, no-one will ever understand how worried I was about this. Even I don't on most days.
3. Cheese at the E-mart.
4. Shower curtains.
5. Coteachers who speak English.
6. Mountain views and parks.
7. The fruit truck.
8. Very, very cheap public transit.
9. Becoming a millionaire. Even if it is in won...
10. Jessie, here with me in Korea. I'd probably be insane if she wasn't here, and we couldn't rant and vent to eachother. Plus, I'd probably be insane if she wasn't here anyways...

Things Canadians should be thankful for, and probably take for granted (ignoring family, because that's the one even the dumb cousin gets right at the FAMILY dinner):
1. Sane drivers, parking spaces, wide roads, brands other than Hyundai and Kia.
2. Not waking up with a horrible taste in your mouth. Seriously, it must be in the air here. Unfortunately, no-one here knows what I am talking about, because for them, that's just what mouth tastes like.
3. No huge trucks barreling down the street fumigating, stinking up everything, and leaving a trail of higher cancer risk behind it. It would be funny to see all the little kids chasing after it and laughing at the smoke, if it wasn't so damn wrong.
4. Ovens, electric elements, spices, cheese, 2% and 1% milk, good chocolate.
5. People who you can talk to.
6. Not getting mobbed by tween girls every time you leave the house.
7. Understanding what is happening the other 93% of the time.
8. Used stores. Any used stores, whether for clothes, electronics, furniture, music...
9. Good radio. I miss the CBC so much, and somedays I even wish for the Fox or K-Rock. Even if only to help me finally get a different Three-Doors Down song to keep popping into my head and annoying the hell out of me. Seriously, it sucks. "Here without you Bay-beh!" (I think...)
10. Cake that tastes like cake. Seriously, if I put one more cake into my mouth that tastes like rice, or one more donut that explodes with disgusting black bean paste all over my tongue, I will promptly sew my mouth shut. I just want one piece of devil's food cake, or a brownie... oh man, I'd kill for a brownie. Ask me to kill for a brownie.

Anyways, enjoy your big dinners, and try to make it to the couch and undo your pants button before you fall asleep.

All the best. Happy Thanksgiving.