There- 8:30 PM

The other night we had a little house warming party with some co-workers. I can't tell if Myung Soo is the biggest social butterfly I have ever met or just wants to show off his new pad or if it's a culture thing but he has like 4 more of these parties with people that he knows coming up in the next week or so. I don't really care, it's free food for me and the company's not half bad. Minus the fact that I have to answer the same get-to-know you questions with every Korean that I meet I'm not complaining... too much. I think in english class here they teach all Koreans the exact same thing. That's a rant for another day though.

At this social hour we had an awesome crab dinner. Myung Soo's cousin or uncle or someone lives on the coast and is a crab fisherman so he sent a couple of big boxes of crab our way and people from work bought them at a steal. After work we met everyone that had bought crab from Myung Soo in the parking lot and he dished it out. It looked like a crab-drug deal was going down in the company parking lot. I thought it was funny but no one else seemed to understand what I meant.

Shady business going down in the company parking lot.

That night though some women from work came over and prepared the crab as well as a few side dishes and they asked me to prepare something American. I guess they found out that I eat peanut butter sandwiches a lot here (because they're cheap and delicious), so they asked me to make them for the dinner. I thought they were joking at first but when I realized they weren't I valiantly tried to explain that you don't eat peanut butter and jam sandwiches for dinner at a party and you surely don't eat them with crab. My explaining was to no avail and I found myself dishing up a plate of my fanciest pb and j's for our guests. I kept laughing but they all enjoyed them and I chalked it up to another new experience in this foreign land.

My five-star sandwiches taking up space there in the middle of a seafood meal. Which one of these things doesn't belong?

There was several buckets full of these bad boys. Needless to say I got my fill.