Things That Make Me Happy

hej all and sundry. We had the most fantastic Friday in a very long time. I have met a couple of doctor dudes who are interested in learning English and we meet a couple times a week for that purpose. Straight to the good gear, one of them owns a micro-brewery. We went there on Friday and it was fantastic. It has a restaurant where they make all of their own food and condiments (obviously including beer). It is the most fantastic food I have eaten in Corea, and the most fantastic beer I have drank in Corea also. We had a sausage platter. Homemade sausages, you can’t do them justice with words, but I will try to describe them anyway. Big fat barstards three quarters of an inch thick, stacked full of pork or beef, jammed with herbs and spices which I didn’t even know existed in Corea, generously peppered. We had enchiladas and fajitas, with homemade sour cream. It has to be homemade because it doesn’t exist in any other form. Cajun chicken salad, it just keeps going, going and going. It was magnificent. Best of all for me was what I consider to be the quality of the character of the doctor blokes. Usually men in Corea have a very bad habit of indulging in ‘boys nights’ every time they go out. These guys asked my wife to come as well. I must admit (even though they seem like really nice blokes) that it occurred to me that they might have had the ulterior motive of bringing a free interpreter with. But not only was I wrong, I was very wrong. This is the first time I have been invited out by men in Corea and they have invited my wife with, also brought their wives and their children came with the package, two little girls aged 7 and 3. It was such a great night. We had a blast. It was so refreshing to go out with guys that want their families to go out with them. This makes me happy.