Presents

Wednesday, oh how I have always adored hump day but it is even sweeter when you only have to work half of a day. My schedule is Monday through Friday but on Wednesdays and Fridays I have a half day so i get out at 7 instead of 10. Today was all the sweeter, literally.

Before starting class the students started to arrive when I struck up a conversation with Eric (one of the students). We were chatting about his schooling and how is week was when he saw his mom in the hallway with a bag to give him. When he came back into the class he went to his seat and took out the contents of his bag and walked over to my desk. "Here you go, my mom wanted me to give you this." What is it? "Its a coffee bun." Oh but of course, I looked at the golden brown pastry with wide eyes and thanked Eric very much as well as told him to tell his mother thank you. There was still plenty of time left before class started so i took a bite of the coffee bun and it was quite delicious. Flaky, buttery, moist, crispy all at once. It had a mild after taste of coffee to it and also had a treasure of some kind of jam like substance in the very center. For someone who is not a fan of coffee it was pretty delicious.

Is this the Korean equivalent of giving your teacher an apple? I am not sure if this gesture was because he liked me and told his mother how wonderful I was from the last class or more likely a kind of present from the parent to make sure her kid does well in class. Honestly my first thought was the latter but either way it made me feel good inside to receive a gift from a student.