Pizza Hut English
December 21, 2005

I went to Pizza Hut today with Pricilla and a few of her English students.  She's one of the people that I've been helping with her English.  We enjoyed pizza and they all really dug the salad bar.  She kept wanting me to have salad, but I told her it was called "Pizza" Hut and not "Salad" Hut.  During chow the wait staff came over and began to sing me happy birthday and lit candles on a plastic pizza.  She told them it was my birthday.  My birthday was October 16th, so they were only 2 months & 5 days late.  And from the candles in the picture, the big ones normally mean "10" and the small ones mean "1."  So she told them I was 43!?  Damnit, I'm only 37.  Of course, in Korea they count one year in the belly, so you're one year older over here.  So here, I'm 38.  When I go back to Los Angeles, not only will I go back in time for the time zone, I'll loose a year of age!  I wonder if I just traveled back & forth a few times if I could shave off a few more years?

After eating she spread out a large map of U.S.A. and had me talk about a few of the states.  It dawned on me then, that I've visited quite a few of the states.  They also wanted me to say each of the state's names so they could repeat it after me.  At first I pronounced Arkansas like Ark-"Kansas" instead of Ark-"Kensaw."  Then I said, "Wait a minute.  That's how some people say it incorrectly.  The proper way to say it is Ark-"Kensaw."  Good save on my part...I'm a freaking genius.

What I learned today about Korea:  1) How to correctly say Arkansas.