It wasn't raw. The flesh was soft and silky, and it was easy to get down (except for when I accidentally ate a bit of guts with the flesh, then it was really hard not to gag).
Also, whole shrimp. The first time I tried to rip off the head (you don't eat that part), a bit of brain-juice (or something) oozed out, and I squealed. After that, my co-teachers ripped off the heads for me.
Also, another fish. Fuck fish, fuck it hard.
I went with the English department (6 people, myself included) to the seafood market and then to a nearby restaurant that cooked the crab for us. Funny thing is, none of us except for Han Jin-An (the older male teacher who reads but doesn't speak English) wanted to go to a seafood restaurant. But age and gender carry a lot of authority here. We went, and then after Han Jin-An left we (me, Yena, Young-Kyung, Shin-Jung, and Park Mi-Ran) got coffee together and bitched.
All of that happened earlier this week. Highlight of today: I had my second graders each come up with a dangerous situation and have one person give warnings to the other person. One student wrote: "Gary, don't talk to girls! You could hurt yourself!" / "Gary, watch out! A girl's coming!" I could hardly contain myself.
Here and here is what a flower crab looks like.
Here is what the belly of a flower crab looks like. But the ones I saw had purplue lines along the creases in their shells. (Luckily, they weren't nearly as beautiful once they were dead/cooked. Maybe the ones in this picture are dead?)
Here is what the white crab flesh looks like.
And here is something like what the piles of crabs at the market looked like. But imagine that the pile is oh so much bigger than this one, that the crabs are squirming and sliding off the pile, and that there are 100 more piles exactly like this one with various types of crabs.
Here and here is what a flower crab looks like.
Here is what the belly of a flower crab looks like. But the ones I saw had purplue lines along the creases in their shells. (Luckily, they weren't nearly as beautiful once they were dead/cooked. Maybe the ones in this picture are dead?)
Here is what the white crab flesh looks like.
And here is something like what the piles of crabs at the market looked like. But imagine that the pile is oh so much bigger than this one, that the crabs are squirming and sliding off the pile, and that there are 100 more piles exactly like this one with various types of crabs.
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I love this, but the tag promised mentions of swine flu.
WHERE'S THE SWINE FLU.
(or was that the point of your tag--to highlight the swine flu's absence?)
oh man, i really thought i wrote something about the swine flu, like, honestly. but maybe that is just because i was just out for dinner with my gossip girls, and they were like "SWINE FLU SWINE FLU SWINE FLU." 10% is the number of students that need to be sick for school to close, and they are rooting for it. We're at about 4% now, but in some homerooms it's up to as high as 30%.
also, this post is kind of about swine flu now, so i'm leaving the tag.
I need to use my Epi-pen from just reading this post. Also, I threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Srs has late comment, is catching up on blogs today. I started a Tumblr too, for Chicago. See Twitter for link. Heartz.
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