Peanuts at Work?

After our classes are finished for the day, we usually have a few minutes to run across the street to the store to buy some needed snacks and drinks before we phone teach and finish up with paperwork. Today Colin and I opted for peanuts and some cider (basically sprite). When we came back our one teacher asked, "So where is your beer?" Of course we thought this was funny because we were at work. Good joke Bo Hyun...we don't drink at work!

But then Hye Hyun says, "We only eat peanuts when we are drinking beer. So when you are all eating peanuts everyday, we think this is strange."

Oh. I guess that would be a bit strange to see at least one foreign teacher a day eating peanuts when it means they should be drinking beer. But does it ever occur to them to try the peanuts without the beer? Probably not. Everything has a time and a place here.

On the subject of strange things, they also peel their pears and grapes before they eat them. Now, the pears I could understand. But the grapes? That's a lot of effort to eat one grape! They think we're weird for eating them with the skin, but I think it's strange that so much energy goes into eating perfectly good fruit! I am way too impatient for that.