today is thursday 19 october 2006.

yesterday i had the eight graders in class. interesting conversations . . .

one girl who is chinese kept arguing how american chinese food really isn't chinese. and she wasn't amused--so we kept listing our favorite items . . . "so sesame chicken isn't chinese"--chinese girl's reaction "no!" how about "crab cheese wontons." "no!" "what about that stuff from panda express--the orange chicken!" "no! no! no!" i think we might have insulted her with the panda express statement.

i told the class about my experience with indian food . . . how i tried this yogurt stuff that nearly burned my mouth off . . . the indian student laughed. "that's not even hot." right.

then i mentioned bul-gogi (a korean dish). the exchange student from korea said she really liked it. when her classmates asked for a description of the dish, the exchange student said "it's like beef." then i said--"no you can't say that! it is beef! it's not like beef!"

then they asked me what hawaiian food was like. so i described sticking hot lava rocks in a pig cooking it from the inside out. so i showed a picture of the pig from the hawaii reception. korean girl's reaction "nasty!" that was funny--so kim chee isn't nasty?

halloween is coming up. so get your foil ready to go to chipotle dressed as a burrito to get yourself a free burrito. my suggestion--use a first aid blanket.

the cardinals beat the mets. comes down to bottom of the ninth with bases loaded--mets down by two runs with their number three hitter at bat--to go down in on a called strike three . . .

not real thrilled either the cards or tigers--but it is the world series. and the tommy lasorda commercials compels me to watch . . .