Lord of the Flies!

If any of you have ever seen the movie Lord of the Flies, you will know what I'm talking about when I say "pig head." Rewind: I found out on the way to school this morning from Mrs. Kim that there was a tree planting ceremony going on. Basically, all the teachers plant trees in the school yard for arbour day, which is tomorrow and they pray for them to grow. Jiny told me that they were going to be eating a pigs head. I was like, ok, cool. I didn't realize that the pig head would be uncooked looking. Then she gave me the choice of planting trees or going to the market with her and Yong to pick up the pigs head. I opted for the market, since I don't do slave labor and I had good clothes on because yet again, I find things out last minute. We got to the market and it was pretty cool, but very traditional Korean foods. Well, we turn down this one aisle and Jiny lets out a panic breath and then there, right in front of my "big" eyes are three pig heads on a platter. I move over to the left, but no wait, more pig heads on the ground at the vendor beside ours. In fact, pigs head lined that aisle. I literally, started to gag and feel sick to my stomach because just looking at the pigs heads made me want to barf, but they were also smiling and their goddamn eyes were looking at me. Then there was this foul foul smell like more than pigs had died, so I had to move as far away as possible to keep from throwing up. I have added a picture simply because I think you should all have to see what I had to deal with in real life. If you don't throw up in your mouth a little, I will be utterly shocked. I even took the pleasure of blowing the picture up on this blog. Lauren will enjoy this the most, I know it. After we had picked up the pig, which was thankful wrapped in box where I couldn't see it and all other essentials needed we headed back to school. Then I got to watch one of the teachers cut the pig head up and another divide it out on plates. Once all the teachers had come into the cafeteria after tree planting the principal gave a speech, which I didn't catch, sorry about that and then we all got up and stood around the tables with food and pig on them and dug in. It was very Korean style where we all just ate off the same plates. I never thought I would see day that kimchi looked more appetizing. I didn't touch the pigs head and I think it looked bad, but I explained to Jiny and Mrs. Kim that I just couldn't bring myself to do it, especially since it looked uncooked. The pig is good luck in Korea and they usually eat it when they want good luck and fortune to come their way. They want the trees to grow and have life, so that's where the pigs head comes in. It's a form of prayer if you will. Fast forward to Lord of the Flies, the only difference between the movie and our school was that we weren't stranded on a desert island and our pig head was served on a plate not a stick.