Hi guys! I just wanted to give you a really quick update on our weekend, which was really fun and chill. Saturday night we finally made it to the Salsa for Foreigners class I've been dying to try ever since I got here. The class was taught by an American or Canadian woman who seems awesome. There was about 24 people there, mostly various English teachers but also a few Americans from the military base. It was a basic beginning class, but I had a blast anyways and was just so glad to be dancing again. There were a couple of leads who seemed to really know their stuff, so I had a great time dancing with them on the free songs. The teacher is starting up an intermediate class next week, and asked me to come to it- perfect timing!! Ace had a great time too, and remembered quite a bit from his Cuban and ballroom classes back home. We're both really looking forward to lessons to come.
The money we paid for the lesson also included a free drink, so we headed downstairs to a private Korean Salsa party to get our drinks from the bar. All the dancers were incredible- most were definitely competitive dancers. A few graciously allowed me to step all over their feet, and it was amazing! I forget how much I adore dancing, especially with such wonderful leads- it's the closest I'll ever get to flying :) All my friends decided to head out, but I stayed behind- the only foreigner in the club except for the 4 military people from the class. I danced a few more dances (in my heavy jeans, t-shirt and ballet flats- not ideal!) and watched some fabulous performances, then headed out to meet up with my friends. Anyways, I'm in love, and so so happy that I'm going to be able to keep up my dancing while I'm here. Next on the lessons-to-start taking list- lindy hop!
Yesterday we had a very pleasant day wandering around downtown. Rich took us downtown to show us a shoestore that carries sizes large enough for our gigantic feet. We also met up with our friend Mike, who we met through this blog. I really enjoyed poking through the shops downtown and trying to get a feel for where everything is at. There is definitely a great shopping district here! Ace and I had dinner at a samgyetung place, which was a new meal for us- unfortunately for me, I didn't look at the menu close enough to realize I was ordering an entire small chicken for myself! Samgyetung is chicken soup, but when it comes out from the kitchen it looks pretty different from the canned stuff- it's a big cast iron bowl filled with broth and a few little bits of green onion with an entire chicken sitting in the middle. The chicken is stuffed with sticky rice, ginseng and these date-like fruits whose name I forget. It was nice chicken soup, definitely something I'll crave when I'm sick, but it was so much work to try to pick an entire chicken apart with slippery metal chopsticks! Anyway, it was nice soup, but definitely not one of our favorite dishes- we like the spicy stuff!
After dinner, we came home and I went about another project I've been dying to try- rice-cooker cooking. My friend Brent told me that it could be done, but I wasn't sure how it would go. Nonetheless, lo and behold, I created a beautiful and delicious loaf of zucchini bread in our rice cooker last night!! This has definitely opened up a whole world of possibilities- what's to stop me from making banana bread, rice pudding, brownies, german pancakes, or gigantic pie-like cookies?! I feel like this is a major victory for people with under-equipped, oven-less kitchens everywhere.
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Bread in a rice cooker? Blasphemy! Thats like cooking eggs in a microwave! Seriously though, nice ingenuity for faking out an oven. I'd likely have gone without. Where did you come up with the idea? A friend?
Yep, I owe the idea to Brent. Brilliance.
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