November 11th

No, its not Rememberance Day here. Its PEPERO DAY! I can't even get over this day. Back home Pepero is called Pockey, which is a long cookie-like chocolate covered stick. On this day everyone gives them to other people. I receieved so many of them that I'll be eatting them for the rest of the year. The displays of them are unreal. Huge gift baskets and a wide variety of flavours and wrapping featuring Hello Kitty, Snoopy, and random other cartoons and love messages. I've seen some of the boxes covered in English, so of course I read it. After about the 3 line I realised that it was the lyrics from a Backstreet Boys song!!






I guess its somewhat comparable to Valentine's Day, but the difference is that its ONE company that monopolizes it. I can't even get across how crazy it is that this day even exists. Imagine Oreo made up an oreo day and EVERYONE in the entire country bought into it.

So I made all of my senior classes write their essays on Pepero day and I told them that they should discuss consumerism and if Pepero is really such a great thing. They better be more interesting than "I like Pepero. Pepero is good and everyone in the world likes Pepero. My friends like it. I like Pepero".