We'd gone three months cooking on a hot plate so we decided to treat ourselves to an oven on our last payday. We'd looked around and found one we liked at the Hi-Mart (pronounced Hi-Mart-uh), but for some reason we couldn't just take it home- it had to be delivered. I'd run into this problem before at the Home Plus (pronounced Home Plus-uh) so I think it's a Korea "thing". Well, one of the key aspects of the delivery system is the store's ability to call you before they deliver your item and we didn't have a phone. So we agreed to return to the store 4 days later to pick up the box ourselves. So what did we do all day Saturday? BAKE. Mel made some awesome hashbrowns to go with our breakfast, than I made us BBQ chicken pizzas for supper and then we ruined a batch of cookies. They were more pancake than cookie but I blame the wonky Korean ingredients: such as the brown sugar that was clearly just white granulated sugar colored brown, or the baking soda labeled 'eating soda'. Learning curve: the thermostat was in celcius and that's why the hashbrowns cooked so quickly...
After work on Friday Stella asked us to stick around for a few minutes because she was going to "offer us some cell phone" so we did, as we realized earlier this week having a phone can come in handy sometimes. It took us over 24 hours to figure out how to turn our phone on (Chris showed us- you hold down the red button). I was playing with it at Jo's last night and I was pretty impressed- it's in english, it's small, it has an mp3 player, camera and games... but then our Korean friend Jamie stomped on our dreams and told us it's an "ajumma phone"... which means it's an uncool, old lady phone. She said her Mom has the same phone. Koreans definately have nice cell phones, but ajumma phone or not, at least now I can stare hypnotically into my cell for hours on the subway like the Koreans. When in Rome...
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