ok su su suyum cha is yummy!

I was really looking forward to today because I had such a good time last week, but I forgot how rough my first day was, or rather, I remembered and thought it was just because it was the first day. Today confirmed that it was not that, but it was the group I have. Well, maybe it's Monday. Anyway, today was rough, and I am assuming next Monday will also be difficult because it will be the same group and it will be a Monday. Enough said. The rest of the week should go better.

Sonja and I got one of the cute guys from the office to escort us to a restaurant today and explain the menu. We ended up getting some sort of soup with rib bones that had a little meat on them. It was very spicy, but good. I was sweating for about an hour after lunch from the heat, the soup and the spice though.

I was glad to get to the end of the day and even gladder to get an e-mail from my friend Jen who recommended ok su su suyum cha, which is cornsilk tea. She said she felt bloated last year when she was here due to the high sodium diet and found this in a convenience store and it is recommended for water retention among other things. Maybe I am not fat, I am just bloated. That makes more sense.

So, I went to our little mini-market and looked for the bottle with the Boticelli type Venus that told me to look for. Instead, I found a bottle with a little country looking woman that another posting on the internet said marks the bottle. I could read ok su su on the lable in Korean and brought it to the counter and asked, "ok su suyum cha?" and the two women behind the counter enthusiastically responded "yeh".

So now I am drinking ok su su suyum cha and hoping that tomorrow I will be less bloated and my students will be more alive.