Happy Pepero Day!

November 11th in Korea is kind of a national holiday. While everyone else is celebrating their veterans, Koreans are busy giving each other Pepero (배배로). Pepero is basically just a cookie stick dipped in chocolate. It's a completely made-up holiday; I think the story of its creation involves middle-school girls giving each other these long, skinny cookies in hopes that they would stay thin forever (I know, it seems just a bit counter-productive). November 11th was chosen as Pepero Day because it is 11/11, and the 1's look like Pepero. Here's the stack of Pepero I received yesterday:

Each box contains about 12 sticks

I ended up re-gifting all of them to my middle school students. I only ate 1 stick, and that's because one student gave me one from the box I gave him; he's so adorable, I couldn't say no.

I revamped my blog; I found this template over at Yummy Lolly. Oh, and I also checked out another gym near my house. It's about $65/month, or $150 for 3 months. That's the cheapest I've ever seen in Korea, so we'll see. Maybe I'll join, or maybe I'll just settle for braving the cold :)

Have a good day!