At school the head dinner lady is known as the nutritionist. She has her own office and is responsible for planning the cafeteria lunches and in charge of the dinner ladies serving the lunches. When I first came the lunches were well balanced.I dont eat the meat items or pork as I follow a Muslim Halal diet but there were usually vegetable dishes, soup, boiled rice, fish or seafood options each day. Usually I ate ok. On rare days I was reduced to just the rice as...

visit daegu tourism page has done a good article on daegu museums. original article can be seen here thru facebook https://www.facebook.com/#!/notes/visit -daegu-2011_eng/all-about-daegus-famous -museums-1/221250544610610This entry was reprinted on TheKoreaBloghttp://blog.korea.net/?p=6205--------------------------------------- -------------------------------------All about Daegu's famous Museums - #1by Visit DAEGU 2011_eng on Monday, November 21, 2011 at 9:35amD...

Every so often the Daegu YMCA hosts cultural activity days where you can learn traditional korean arts and crafts. The YMCA is a lifeline for foreigners in Daegu with Korean language classes so I'm on their mailing list. The event was free and I had nothing planned this weekend so I signed up.The morning introduction in the main hall was a rather long drumming duet performance on two different types of traditional drums. We were later to find out these would be t...

Daegu is hosting a dinosaur expo for a few weeks till the start of December so I checked it out this weekend. Entrance is 13,000w ($12) which might seem high but it was worth it. As you approach the event site there are giant dinosaurs outside with dinosaur sounds playing from the speakers. Some of the dinosaurs were mechanical and were moving.After entering the site and going to the second floor there are again moving dinosaurs. There was a trio of three talking...

Nov 11 in Korea is not rememberance day, its Pepero Day. Pepero is a pencil like thin biscuit coated in chocolate. There are four types, plain chocolate, chocolate almond, chocolate nuts, and a chocolate filled tube. All the kids are highly excited for pepero day and there are special packages on sale in the stores.Last year I bought two giant cartons of pepero for about $20 each. I still have the empty boxes so this year I put them on display with a new carton I...