Monday, April 11, 2011

Blue Blazers and Almond Pizza

Let me put this on the table before I say anything further: I am not a huge fan of Korean pizza. The don't put nearly enough tomato sauce on it, and the dough is soft and sweet, hardly deserving of the denotation "crust." In addition, Koreans love to put strange things on their pizzas, like corn and sweet potato. Today, the level of stangeness increased, as I bought a slice of pizza and discovered that in addition to cheese and sausage (and, unfortunately, CORN), the pizza was topped with a veritable bushel of sliced almonds.

Another less than pleasant discovery today: I thought it was normal and acceptable to dress up your look a little bit by throwing on a blue blazer. When I tried that little trick for an open class today (this is when parents come to watch your class, a stressful affair to say the least), the Korean teacher told me that I looked like a high schooler. Then I remembered that (literally) every high school across the country has an almost identical blue blazer as part of its uniform. So now I know what garment to don when going for that "youthful" look.