Home Plus-uh
Grocery shopping is so different here. I shop at this big store called Home Plus. Its pretty good. If they sell something here, then I can get it there. I will spend like an hour there when I need even just a few items. I end up wandering around, having to pick up every thing, look at it, see if there is any english on it, think about how much I'm paying for it, and then, most of the time just put it back.
They have a ton of people working there, dressed in funny outfits. They will yell things out to get you to buy stuff. It seems so odd. You're in the grocery store, of course you're going to buy something. Don't they all work for the same place? Why should it matter what you buy? ha. The nice thing is that if you need help with something there are always someone near by to answer your questions. (Although I never ask questions since I don't know how or what they'd reply). I'm ok with just finding my own way.
Fruit and vegetables are so expensive! I'm probably going to get scurvy while I'm here unless I just suck it up and pay the high prices. Everything is individually wrapped. The giant apples (which are like $2 each) are either sealed in a bag with 4 or 5 of them or have this weird styro-plastic stuff around them.
Most of the time its cheaper to just eat out. If you eat Korean that is. Korean food is pretty healthy. I'm slowly getting used to whats what and how to eat with the thin metal chopsticks that they use. Its been quite embarassing so far. For some reason I just can't use them. My hand gets cramped up and hurts a little, but I'm detirmined to master them.
posted by Poorlittlelamb @ 5:28 PM
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hey sarah, those gaint apples are pears, haha,
and it only gets better from there, life is neat, i missed you this weekend, but i guess thats what happens when you work 6 days a week. have a fantastic monday DF.
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HEY!
I LOVE reading your blogs, cos they're so obviously straight-forward and a lot of shit that I never thought to write about in my own. I like that they remind me so much of first getting here.
I still wander the store (even now that I know where everything that I want is) for an hour doing the same thing as you. As my Hangeul improves, I often find myself reading random labels just to laugh as I come to the realization that the Korean writing is just a bastardization of the English word! hahaha
Yeah, you'll just have to suck it up and buy the veggies. They really don't get much cheeper - but if you can find a good market where one person has everything you want, you'll get a good deal...especially if you keep going back to them... As for me...I just go the local Emart and pay rediculous prices cos the market ladies just keep trying to rip me off even worse! LOL
those are pears?! you're kidding me!
I'll see you this weekend. I'm going shopping with the girls and then we're meeting up at Neil and Anettes for poker, right?
Yeah I'm going to need to see pics of these giant applepears.
Biggie.
Soon, just be patient. I'll get a camera and post to my little heart's content.
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