Its been a confusing few days in Korea for lots of reasons. Firstly, I was given a spam giftpack from my school as a lunar new year gift, which was confusing enough to earn 5 confusion points. As such, I've been trying to find ways to make spam edible, and have so far had spam and eggs, spam curry, spamghetti bolognese, spam stew, and spamghetti carbonara. Sadly, they don't really have normal bread (i.e not sweet bread) in Korea, so I can't make simple spam sandwiches. (Lack of normal bread = 2 confusion points). All that has only used up 3 cans of spam, so I've still got 6 cans left! Spamtastic!
I then went into Seoul with a group of friends, and saw a number of confusing sights. You do quite often see people wearing clothes with random English words of phrases on them in Korea, but this one is my new favourite;
Yes, it does say "WHO DON'T WHAT ARE YOU FREE ON"
And it's not even a question, just a statement. 10 confusion points for that one.
Another favourite slogan on a top was 'Not bad girl street Los Angeles' Again, just random words. Additional 3 confusion points.
We then went to a Trick Eye Museum, which was confusingly cool. Lots of opportunities to take amusing photos of yourself in impossible situations, with clever angles and such like. Its not quite as good as Puzzling World in Wanaka, New Zealand, but was certainly better than Puzzle World in Keswick, England (sorry Keswick fans). One of my favourites was this one;
But another favourite was this image. The 'trick' part here is the money supposedly 'falling out' of the painting at the bottom, but the really confusing part is why are these renaissance era merchants using a laptop? And a really small mini laptop too? 2 confusion points
Back at school, I was further confused by one of my students' homework. Each week, we teach them a new phrase, and ask them to write some sentences using that phrase. The phrase this week was a simple one; "I might . . . " So while most students wrote things like "I might go for a walk", "I might read a book", "I might play a game", one student wrote this;
And the really confusing part is, who taught him what a panther is? I didn't. And its a pretty unusual animal to know when you're 9 years old. 6 confusion points (I have no idea what 'wintow' is? Window? But what does he mean by that? I might look out the window? Maximum confusion).
And finally, the Adventures of Tyrion the Turtle
Well this week, even little Tyrion was confused. He did not know what was going on . . . .
Total confusion points = Dypthalmologist . . .
