Happy Teachers' Day

Traditionally a holiday where parents bribe their children's teachers to either pay them special attention, or be lenient on their grades if worse comes to worst. This would never work in America; children and their parents don't care a tenth as much about education as these Koreans.

Basically, everyone writes their teacher a card saying "Thank you so much for your teaching, I love you! -Sally" ...or some cutesy derivative of that. Then they give you a present. It could range from candy to a $200 bottle of cologne. My presents this year include:

- cake from a famous hotel bakery
- a platter of traditional rice cake (떡)
- $50 worth of ClarinsParis face wash, aftershave, and "anti-fatigue" cream
- $40 bottle of Biotherm face wash
- 3 jars of hand-picked green tea
- 3 Pierre Cardin handkerchiefs
- 3 sets of dress socks from Elle Homme
- 4 (kind of awesome) Korean t-shirts
- a box of (what I'm told is) super-expensive chocolate
- a pen that looks like a rose
- a myriad of roses and carnations
- a gift set from the Body Shop, including "cooling foot spray" (awesome y/n?)
- delicious delicious butter cake
- a Jeju Island orange (better than it sounds, yummiest orange in the world)
- a huge stack of devastatingly adorable letters which I will keep forever in a small-yet-treasured wooden box until the day I die, and upon the carrying out of my last requests listed in my will, my family and friends will give me a viking's funeral and use the aforementioned letters to ignite my ceremonial pyre, in which my mortal coil shall burn with the love and awesomeness of Korean five-year olds. The pillars of fire will be seen for miles.

And in other news, today from my school I finally received:
- a microwave
- health insurance


AND HOLY SHIT DID YOU SEE LOST?