Turkey and chopsticks

Sunday for Christmas, the foreign teachers and I (my surrogate family) decided to order a big homestyle turkey dinner from one of the Western hotels here. Two of the guys picked it up and we met at Geoff, Thomas, and Gilles' house (3 of the foreign teachers from Canada). Since the 3 of them share an apartment, their place is bigger and more equipped to hold the festivities. 15 people were there, all of the foreign teachers from my school, as well as some of the foreign teachers who used to work there and their significant others (several of the guys have Korean girlfriends). It was great---the dinner and the company. Our dinner consisted of turkey, gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, corn, mashed potatoes, brussel sprouts, and fruit salad. I made chocolate covered pretzels to bring, and Christmas cake is a really big thing here so we had one of those. I drank this raspberry Korean wine, which another Korean at the party told me it's supposedly good for a man's stamina. Who knew?? Carving the turkey was interesting...none of the people there had actually done it before, and all they had at the house were steak knives, so a couple of people were just hacking away at it. There wasn't enough silverware to go around, so several of us had to eat with chopsticks...
We played games, drank, and ate. And of course, the night ended with a trip to the noraebang...it was a really fun Christmas. Not religious in the least, but fun!!