Lori CP-3

After our last adventure in the wilderness of N. Florida, I decided it would be best for Jae and I to just relax and hang out for our next meeting. Jae had been frequenting Starbucks on campus but I thought it would be nice to take her to a different coffee shop and help her get a feel for the other options near campus. I picked her up from her dorm and we went to Panera to hang out and work on homework.

We talked about everything from American movies and books to unrest in the Middle East. I was and am still intrigued by the differing agendas of media sources across the world, being just one of many ways of measuring freedom within a country. In this instance however, I was just curious about what is currently popular in S. Korea.

Jae asked me how to make tomato basil soup, and although as simple as it seems, and I could have generalized, I honestly wasn't sure the procedure and said I didn't know. I was surprised to learn that she had looked up the recipe and had made several attempts to reproduce the delicious soup that appears to be an American staple, at least in chain restaurants and bistros.

When we were finally ready to leave, Jae bought several items from the bakery, and I learned that she had been surviving almost solely on dorm cafeteria "food," which caused to me decide that every further meeting of ours would include food outside of the lovely cafeteria range. I'm looking into Korean restaurants in the area, although I hear that there is only one. Korean BBQ & more it is!