Saturday November 11 (11-11) is the Korean version of sweetest day, called Pepero Day. Now, Pepero is a Korean cookie. It is a long thing stick cookie covered in chocolate. November 11 was chosen because it looks like 4 pepero sticks 1111. Anyway, this is a made-up holiday, that only the kids celebrate. Most people believe that Lotte (pronounced 'low-tay'), the company that makes everything here in Korea, is behind the holiday. The same way that people believe Sweetest Day was invented by Hallmark.
Anyway, some students gave me some pepero cookies on friday. It was quite sweet really. I know that my students like me, that is never an issue. If only they would respect me and parle that into trying to learn English. Oh well. Everyone... happy belated Pepero Day. There is a wikipedia entry about Pepero Day at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepero_Day.
1 comment:
Happy Belated Pepero Day Dan!
See, they DO love you!
I bet they respect you too.
But i think it's a bit too much to ask for them to redirect all that love and respect into learning Engrish. ;)
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