SoKoDiaries: An American Teacher Living In South Korea (SoKoDiaries Book Series) by Nailah Harvey

Author:Nailah Harvey [Harvey, Nailah]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: black america, korea, culture and customs, travel abroad, esl english, politics, south korea
Published: 2013-11-29T05:00:00+00:00

Each of the two cafeteria sections housed roughly 15 long tables - five rows and three columns. There were about 12 foldout stools (seats) to each table totalling180 seats in each section with a grand total of 360 cafeteria seats. My favourite seat was in the back of the cafeteria in front of the second main entrance, on the left side. I sat right in front of the glass door where students waited outside. While waiting, some girls watched me struggle to eat with my chopsticks. I tried not to pay attention to them, but it was difficult to ignore the judgmental teenage stares.

After eating, we all placed our used trays and utensils in what I called The Disposal Area. There was a stainless steel container for used chopsticks, as well as one for used spoons. If apple juices, yogurts or fresh fruit were served, then there was a separate plastic mesh bin for the waste. All leftover compost was dumped into a trash shoot connected to the long deep sink that housed the used trays, bowls and utensils.

The disposal area was near the cafeteria exit (or third entrance door). The middle hallway that separated the cafeteria into two sections had metal cabinets with stainless cups - the size of Dixie cups. The students used these cups for their rice water. After drinking, the cups were stacked, facing down, in another deep stainless steel sink similar to that in The Disposal Area. Napkin dispensers were also in the middle hallway where faculty, staff and students grabbed to-go napkins before exiting the cafeteria. After checking yourself out in the long wall mirror, of course.

Alas, my comfort food.

I should have written an appreciation letter to Nabisco (Kraft Foods) because Oreo cookies were my best friends while I was in Korea. They were my comfort food. I also drank a lot of yogurt. Liquid yogurts, or drinking yogurts, were inexpensive and convenient. A pack of five 65 milliliters (mL) drinking yogurts cost 480 won - which was comparable to 40 cents in U.S. currency. Go figure, my comfort food was cheap and unhealthy. What an American I am!

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