Winter Break

It's officially the last week of school here and I am getting excited. It's an Awesome week because

A: It's only 4 days, we get New Years off on Thursday.
B: I'm doing one Christmas words BINGO lesson for every class so my prep is relatively simple and the kids love BINGO.
C: I'm not sick anymore!!! I was deathly ill on Christmas with a 102 (38 C) fever.

Next week we have the Winter Break ceremony and I start my camp. I've decided to rock the Back To The Future theme. I'll teach for 2 hours a day for a couple of weeks and then I'm done. I'm not 100% on where I go from here, but it's on my mind all of the time. I'm hoping they don't make me teach the first 2 weeks of March to fulfill my contract to the letter (I got here a little late). I'm guessing if they want another teacher they won't since the 2 of us can't share the same apartment.

So my tentative plan is to come home to visit around late February/early March if possible.

New Years eve on Wednesday should be fun, I'll see if I can poach some pictures of that.

I'm making chili flautas for dinner tonight and I'm really excited!!!!

Thailand?

The plan has gone from Engineering in Dubai to yacht crew in the Mediterranean to staying in Korea and now to possibly teaching in Thailand next year. My friend Dan from high school teaches there at an international school. He said he might be able to get me a job teaching various subjects starting at the end of next March. This falls right in line with when I will most likely be looking to work again, and living in Bangkok would be a trip so this is a very likely possibility. Nothing is set in stone yet, but this is the direction I am leaning today.

"Thanksgiving"

It's strange how my feelings regarding holidays seem to be tied to media more than anything else. Today is "Thanksgiving" and I don't really feel a thing. Don't get me wrong I miss the fam and friends for sure, but I don't miss the holiday like I thought I would. It doesn't feel like Thanksgiving here because I'm not surrounded by turkeys and pilgrims and "Indians" and pumpkins and food. I don't watch TV here and even if I did I'm sure I wouldn't be seeing all of the clever Thanksgiving marketing campaigns and reminders.

I have a feeling Christmas is going to be the same. I will miss everyone back home, but I won't miss the tree or the meal or the gifts or the wreath or any of the other meaningless accessories that have become so intertwined with our family "traditions" and memories. By now most churches have caught on that people like the truth so they now teach that Jesus was probably born closer to September or the summer. This turns Christmas into more of a pagan than Christian holiday since December 25th was initially celebrated for agricultural reasons (among many others). I'm not trying to belittle or denounce Jesus, maybe just politicians. It's crazy that years and years ago a bunch of "fat cats" decided that they should change Jesus's birthday so that it would conveniently coincide with a holiday that they already celebrated. So Jesus is cool, politicians not so much.

I am gonna miss the time off although I have a 2 month winter break after the new year so I can't complain.

What's the point here? I miss everyone back home, I don't miss marketing. Unless there's a rad power ballad involved:



"YOU'RE THE CHAMPIOOOOON!!!!!"

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My Winter Camp

I think I might base my winter English camp around the movie Back to the Future. It will be a 2 week camp, 2 hours a day. I would show all three movies, probably broken into one hour halves with some worksheets and comprehension exercises for the other hour of class. Does that sound like it might interest a middle school kid who has never seen the movies??? It interests me.

Andy McKee

I feel like I've already blogged about Andy McKee but he deserves another one if I have. I've been obsessed with this guitarist for a while. He plays amazing acoustic songs.



Here's my favorite song:

80's dance party + David Lee Roth outfit = Fun Halloween

Rock and Roll Ju-SI-O

Today was the festival/sports tournament at my school. The festival was more like a talent show. The kids seemed to enjoy my portion, especially the screeching little girls, haha. Our songs went fine, pretty fun stuff. The other students had some pretty interesting talents:

Boring:
Traditional Korean Drums
Traditional Korean Poem
Traditional Korean song
Recorder songs

Strange:
Dude's in drag singing "So Hot" by the Wonder Girls"
13 year old belly dancers
2 separate Cha Cha groups (why???)

Rad:
Magician with emphasis on fire and throwing things
BREAKDANCERS
My Band

One of my co-teachers took pictures so I will try to get a hold of them.

Also,

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Tonight I'm finally gonna dress as David Lee Roth. I got a wig and tights last night. Should be fun.

New Life Direction

I might be putting Dubai on the back burner, or taking it completely off of the stove. After quite a bit of soul searching I've realized that if I work as an Engineer in Dubai I'll just end up in an office hating myself again. This is still an option if the pay and benefits end up being too great too pass up.

Here's the new idea:

I will work as a deckhand on a luxury yacht. The Pay is decent, there are 0 expenses, I would get to live at sea for a bit, and I will learn the ways of the sea.

Season starts in late spring next year in the Mediterranean south of France.

Here's a good article about it:

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS153088+18-Jun-2008+MW20080618

Here's what my blog will look like when I do it:

http://www.travelingbev.blogspot.com/

Don't Hassle the Hoff

I had my first celebrity sighting yesterday. I was sitting in the lobby area of a building at the beach when David Hasselhoff came floating down the escalator. I stared in disbelief until he noticed me. He then exclaimed "DUDE", gave me a thumbs up and went on his merry way. No joke. Seriously.

Of all of the celebrities to see in Korea, David Hasselhoff?????

Korean Koncert

I was informed yesterday that I will be performing with a school band in an upcoming festival. I will be singing the Green Day song Basket-case (inappropriate??) and playing guitar for 2 other Korean songs. One of the songs I kind of like, it's a little like Andrew WK

Here the other one:



Should be fun/funny.

Asian Fireworks

Are much better than American fireworks. These cell camera pictures don't do them justice.



There were over one million people at Gwangali beach to see this fireworks show. It was like a mosh pit full of families and old people for 5 miles.

Here's a better shot of the action

Badminton Tournament

I'll try to sidestep the whole US economy issue since that's depressing,instead I'll talk about Korea's national past time, BADMINTON!!

We had our teacher's tournament yesterday after school. I was excited to dominate but it turns out it was a team thing. Three teams per dept and 2 of them had to win to move on in the tournament. My partner (the vice principal) and I were unstoppable, but we only got to play 2 games. We did our part but the other 2 teams were not that great. We didn't know we needed 3 teams until we got there so we had to throw another team together with the spectators from our dept. That game was comedy. They played against another sub-par team and pulled off one W in a 2 of 3 series. It was not pretty but it was funny. The other teachers were cheering like crazy and singing weird songs. I had a good time and won an embroidered towel.

I think I'll start playing regularly after school. It's a decent workout, fun,and builds camaraderie with the other teachers. When in rome . . . .

In other sporting news my sailing club has a 22 foot Catalina sloop that I've been training on. After a few times out with our instructor I will be able to take it out on my own (probably with friends). I never remember how much I miss being on the water until I'm out there. Sailing is like meditation. They are always trying to get me to do races but I'm not into that. Not sure if I mentioned this here before but I am a soul sailor. I'm not out there to beat someone to a buoy, I'm out there to enjoy the sea. I've been checking out boats online. The great thing about sailboats is that they're a luxury item that is often sold after or during divorces for fairly cheap prices.

I SHOULD BUY A BOAT!!!

Belated Blog

Tony updates.

I lost about 25% of my retirement . That sucks. It's probably more by now but I'm afraid to check. Trickle down greed sucks.

I'm registered independent. I really don't fully endorse Obama or McCain. They both have their good and bad points. I mainly lean left because I hate military spending. I really don't like the 2 party system. It leads to corruption. There is legislation that prevents any 3rd party candidates from the debates. Not awesome. I think that lobbying should be illegal. Too many conflicts of interest. That's how I see it. Ron Paul knows what I'm talking about:

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhT3wYeuY8c&feature=related

Dubai: I've submitted my Curriculum Vitae (international resume) to an Engineering recruiter out of Australia. I told him I would be able to start in either Abu Dhabi or Dubai around April. Now I will sit around and wait for the offers. With the way things are going in the US I'm in no hurry to move back. I miss friends and family, I miss Oregon, but if living in over 25-30 houses has taught me anything it's how to adapt to new surroundings and situations. I make friends easily, I learn my way around quickly, I adjust to local customs well. I am AWESOME!!!! Hahaha.

Dave clued me into "National Novel Writing Month".

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

The gist is that you have to write a 175 page novel in November. 1st draft, no editing,just writing. I'm gonna write an emo novel about my songwriting alter ego "Anthony".

DODGEBALL

We entered a dodgeball tournament on Saturday. We did pretty well, we ended up getting 3rd place out of around 15 teams. We lost in the semi's to a team that I'm pretty sure cheated their way through the competition. We won the moral victory and our entry fee back. That was 2 days ago and my entire body is still sore. Who knew dodgeball was that grueling.

Some Taiwan pics

Here's a taste of Taiwan:












I tried to get some shots of the trees to show the wind. Fun stuff.

Typhoon in Taiwan

Great minds think alike. It turns out some Asian typhoon and I decided to take a trip to Taiwan on the same long weekend. I don't think they name their storms over here, so I'll call him Ni How (hello in Mandarin). I got in to Taipei on Friday around noon. After I arrived at my hostel I decided to wander around for a couple of hours. I found some good food and other things before my ol legs started to give out. When I got back to the hostel I learned that Ni How was set to arrive that evening. He makes his presence known. Heavy drops of rain and some massive wind gusts were rocking the hostel all night. Rachel and Kate were scheduled to fly in Saturday but it was looking like Ni How would be scaring them off. I was pleasantly surprised when they woke my up from my nap Saturday afternoon.

Rachel has a teacher friend living in Taichung so we took a the High Speed Rail down to the city on the western coast and eventually got to Laura's house. It was weird staying in a house after living in an apartment for so long. Ni How basically shut down the country so it was slim pickings looking for things to do. We went to an interesting club that night. There was a group of 5 Taiwanese girls that covered a bunch of western songs in a huge montage. There were choreographed dance moves with the songs, this whole fiasco lasted for over 30 minutes. It was . . . . . . . interesting. This is gonna sound really homo (no offense Dave Nunn) but the fashion down there was way better than Korea. A lot of the girls are dressed 80's style with short skirts and crazy stockings. The dudes refrain from shiny suits and ties so that was a plus too.

From what I experienced, the food was really good too. I loooooove basil and garlic and a couple of dishes I tried were slathered in just that. I had some crazy meat bun that was pretty good too. Prices weren't too bad, the expensive meals were pushing 6-8 bucks. The bun was big and probably around a dollar. I got a hat for ten, it reads "When you laugh blessings will come your way".

Monday night I rode the worlds fastest elevator to the top of the world's tallest building. Ni How really screwed up the visibility but it was still an experience. They show you the wind damper system in the middle of the building,which is fun to think about if you have traces of nerd in your blood like me. Here's a video of "Damper Baby" in action:

http://www.jamesbarlow.co.uk/taipei-101-mass-damper

It counters the movement of the rest of the building to reduce the sway. Pretty interesting. Also, the foundation of the building in connected to a bunch of pillars which are embedded in the bedrock far below. This means that the building will move along with an earthquake instead of being shaken around by an earthquake. Again, interesting. Dubai is working on the next "Worlds Tallest Building", if I do end up there I hope i get to see it finished.

Ni How finally took off Monday night so Tuesday before our flight we got to check out a Buddhist temple. Everything was so intricately designed, it was intense. I couldn't help but think about how non-Buddhist the whole idea of a golden clad temple is. I guess as a monk you would need to find something to do besides meditate though. Religious art is a logical time filler. My stupid camera broke but I'll be poaching Kate's pics soon.

Murray out

Busan-Jinhae free economic zone - speech contest

I was handed a 7th grader's speech yesterday and asked to edit and rewrite it. Usually this isn't a problem but it looks like the kid's parents wrote it and were attempting to sound intelligent which leads to excerpts like this:

"Busan-Jinhae free economic zone for the life circumstance improvement of business environment and the foreigner of the foreign investment enterprise is the free economic zone which creates. Specifically, Korea on the center of the Northeast Asia economic bloc the place catching and together because the airport and the harbor, sightseeing and leisure to do the application of domestic law and the area where equips a proper mouth land tax case lascivious, in order for company activity of up-to-date manufacture * the goods * tourist industry etc. and infra supports this and the special sector the various support to be possible in the area where equips the house environment which is comfortable,to relax to designate."

Haha, that's the first paragraph. 2 sentences. Here's why I can't edit it:

It makes absolutely no sense, so I have no idea where the content is!

I may have no idea what the point of this speech is, but I did learn this:

Lascivious:
1. inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man.
2. arousing sexual desire: lascivious photographs.
3. indicating sexual interest or expressive of lust or lewdness: a lascivious gesture.

I definitely don't know how this word fits into the speech, but if I do edit it it's staying. Hahaha.

Badminton

I've been declared the best Badminton player in my department. This means that I will be representing said department in the school wide tournament next month. I was a little worried about this since all of the male teachers at the school practice every day after class, but I joined in after school yesterday and fared pretty well. They were calling me a "star" haha. It really helps having longer arms and being taller. Having an ex-stepdad punish you at racquet sports as a kid couldn't have hurt either.

I think this is really good for me since I don't like running on the smoggy streets and the closest hiking trails are pretty far from my house. Badminton is actually quite the workout. Also it gives me a chance to bond with the male teachers even though they don't speak English. Badminton is to Korea as Basketball is to America. There are Badminton courts on the sides of mountains next to hiking trails. Korea won 3 medals in the Olympics in Badminton. It's a big deal here. When you think of the jock dudes in the US playing pickup basketball, you can think of their Korean counterparts as shorter versions with cute little racquets and birdies in their hands.

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2k-tsX5KE

The Koreana

Wow. I thought rafting was cool. There is a Korean man named "Charles" who sets up trips for foreign teachers. The latest was a trip aboard a boat named the Koreana. This is apparently the biggest sailboat in Korea. When I saw a picture of the boat I had to go. If you read this blog than you already know about my recent obsession with the sea. The kicker is that the boat sailed out to an island with dinosaur footprint fossils.

So Saturday morning at 1:00 am the buses departed. There were 2, one dubbed the party bus and another for people interested in sleep. I'll let you guess which bus I chose. Eventually we reached our first stop, a hillside temple for a view of the sunrise. Since I hadn't slept yet I was not groggy at all. I almost ran up to the top for this beautiful view. Oh yeah, I won. First one there. Booyah!!:



This turtle is at all of the temples.

After the sweet sunrise the buses took us to the Koreana. I had a fear that we would be cruising around in some crappy ferry boat or something but that was definitely not the case.



I was sooooo chuffed. We got to cruise around on the open sea in a huge sailboat in some of the best weather I've experienced since I've been here. Cool sea breeze with the sun up above. All the while we were surrounded by green islands. It was really cool.



The views were great all around:



Sunset from the crow's nest was amazing. There are plenty of pictures on my picasaweb:

http://picasaweb.google.com/Tony.MurRock/Saaaaaaaaaaailing



Went for a late night swim too. Ended up swimming in iridescent phytoplankton like in the movie "The Beach". It's awesome, every time you move the water starts glowing around you. After that I had to pee in the pitch black boat bathroom. Some of my pee was glowing. Probably the highlight of my life. I wish I had a picture of that haha.

Back to School

Today is my first day back after two weeks of vacation. We start classes again on Monday so today and tomorrow I will try to get my lessons prepared for next week.

Last weekend after sailing there was a Korean BBQ next to our clubhouse. We were invited to join along with an older Australian couple. Mauro and his wife(?) Pauline (she uses a different last name) were seated next to me. They have been sailing around the world for 22 years, seeing the world by sea. Here's their blog which puts mine to shame:
http://www.sailblogs.com/member/shadowoflorelei

This is something that sounds awesome to me, it's half the reason I'm in the sailing club. Ideally I'd like to someday sail around the Mediterranean from Nice, France to Egypt or vice versa.

Anyhow Mauro mentioned that he has a friend who recruits Engineers in Dubai. I guess he's having a hell of a time getting any native English speaking engineers and there is a heavy demand. It's an employees market there with similar benefits as Korea (free housing, no taxes, etc. . ), but more $$$. I pose this question to anyone who reads this:

How much $$ would it take for you to move to Dubai for a year or 2?

It's actually a pretty cool place, home of the crazy man made palm island and eventually world island communities.

The real Korea

My vacation officially started Saturday. I didn't waste any time, our bus for the rafting trip left at 3:30 AM. The river is in a town called Inje in NE Korea. It was really nice to get out of the city, Korea really is beautiful if you have the time to venture outside of the big cities. We started with a little ATV riding, Korea style. This means you ride in a single file line with 20 other people on the same trail, putting along at 5 mph.

After that Dave and I did some light skinny-dipping and then it was time to head rafting. Rafting in Korea isn't quite like the Deschutes in Oregon. For one, every boat has a guide. This is understandable since I'm pretty sure a majority of Koreans don't know how to swim, but ridiculous since the rapids really aren't that big. Regardless we still managed to hit a rock in the middle of some rapids and dump our entire raft crew overboard. That was definitely the best part of rafting. There were people, oars, and flip flops floating everywhere! We finally found our crew and got moving again. Then it started pouring down rain. Huge drops, monsoon style. I might have been dryer if I got in the water it was raining so hard. It was still really warm out which made for a really cool experience. Floating down a river in a lush, green valley surrounded by raindrops is a pretty sweet place to be. It rained for the remainder and really made the rafting 5 times better. Here are some pictures of nature and bearded Tony in a homo shirt.

Stolen photos

Here are some pictures that other people took. I had a brief scare with my camera but it started working again a couple nights ago. I will try to take some pictures of Korea during my vaca:






I haven't shaved in a couple of weeks. Expect mustache pics in the future.

27 is the new black

My birthday was pretty awesome. There was a group of teachers camping at the rock fest so I started with a camping/bonfire party at the stroke of midnight. It was pretty fun. We sang some songs, went swimming, and ate clams fresh from the sea. On Sunday evening Dave and Lindsay came out and we watched Shadows Fall play. They were awesome. We were up in the front in the pit area. It's not as intimidating in Korea, we were the biggest guys up there. They had a bunch of sprinklers and fire hoses set up to go off for the big songs. We got drenched. It was sweet. What really surprised me was the amount of Korean Shadows Fall fans there were. There were kids who knew every word to every song! There's really nothing like hearing a bunch of Koreans chant "Shadows Farr". Even the Ajosshi's (old men) were rocking out.

This is my last week of camp, after that I'm free for a couple of weeks. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with myself, it's really expensive to travel during the peak season so I doubt I'll be flying anywhere. I might check out Seoul and Jeju island, we'll see where the wind takes me. There is a rafting trip that I'm going on this weekend so I'm pretty excited about that.

Dave pushed a girl in the mosh pit. hahaha

Summer Camp

This has been my first week of "English Camp". I teach about 15 students, mostly girls, from 1-3 in the afternoon. My theme has loosely been the Olympics. I really would have preferred to do random things all week but the school wanted a general outline and theme months ago so I am kind of stuck with it. I had the students create their own countries as team names, here's what they came up with:

Friendland

Rainbowland and

Unicornland.

Like I said, mostly girls haha.

Teaching these small classes is a really nice change of pace. It's pretty easy to keep order, especially with only 2 boys.

My B day is this weekend and it looks like Korea knew it was coming. There's a free rock festival at one of the beaches and there will actually be a band that I know and like there, Shadows Fall. Some of their songs chuff me a bit. Also there's a Foreigner dingy sailing race. I might attend but I won't be racing. To me racing ruins sailing. If I wanted to race I'd be out there in a Hallet with a blown 502 haha. I feel like sailing should be chill and stress free.

Shadows Fall:



This is definitely not everyone's bag, but the solos are awesome!!! Here's a band FOIL to contrast the previous:

Andy Mckee, the Eddie Van Halen of Acoustic



You really have to watch him to appreciate how difficult his music is to play.

Well, time to prep an Extreme Sports injury lesson!!!

A taste of home

Now that I'm in the land of lightning fast internet I've started watching complete seasons of TV shows I never watched back home. Here's a brief list:

Arrested Development - Funniest Sitcom Ever.
The Wire - Finally a legit crime drama - Rated ARRRRR
Dexter - Creepy Serial Killer show, pretty good though - Rated R +
Battlestar Galactica - I can't believe how good this show is. PG-13?

Once I get a full season of one of these shows they make for a nice background distraction. There are some English channels on cable but I don't have cable and didn't want to pay for it. Also I've seen some of the movies they show on those channels, absolute crap. Google "Dead or Alive" the movie for an example.

I can't wait for "The Dark Night" to come out. I think we have to wait for early August. I have a nonsexual man crush on Cristian Bale.

EDIT: There are a couple of new pictures here for anyone that's interested. Not many, mostly ads.

I H8 Milk

http://www.notmilk.com/

This really has nothing to do with Korea, but I've been looking into the whole milk thing again. Apparently it's worse for you than I thought. If you have the time try to read "The Famous Milk Letter" in the upper left corner of the notmilk website. We are the only animals that drink milk from a different animal. I wonder why someone decided to drink cow's milk in the first place. The worst part is, I'm used to it now and I love cheese!!!!

Na Koh Jid Mal

Here's my new fave Korean song by Big Bang. I love how G they try to be over here. The chorus can be transated as: "I'm so sorry but I love youIt's a lie" Like "Hey, I love you, just kidding." Certain people from college who read this blog might remember a girl named Mina saying something like this:
"Hey Tony, maybe you should be my boyfriend,just kidding." She is Persian but for some reason John Chase would say this with a Speedy Gonzalez accent. Random blog over.

MUDFEST!!!

This weekend I attended the 10th annual Boryeong Mudfest. In case anyone forgot it was the 10th mudfest they made sure to put "since 1998" on everything. This is quite a popular practice in Korea. Restaurants seem to be very proud of the fact that they've been open for 4 years (since 2004!!). Anyhow mudfest was awesome. We caravaned 2 chartered buses full of foreign teachers across Korea so we could cover ourselves in mud and play at the beach.

Things of Note:

Ricardo is now a novice Shark wrestler.
Kevin almost got the Guinness world record for high fives.
I might be in a commercial.
It's OK to cover yourself in mud if everyone else is doing it.
Surgery is pretty difficult to perform (I have a surgeon video game on my Nintendo DS)

A lot of stories, not enough space. Enjoy the pictures:

Punk > Ballads

In Korea most of the music you will hear is obnoxious. The pop songs are blatant rip offs of current hits from the states. The rap all sounds the same and is pretty tame. Everything else resembles some sort of Ballad. Most Koreans love ballads. When I ask the students what kind of music they like they usually say pop or ballads. I guess this makes sense, it's not called pop because it's unpopular. This is a problem because this music does not chuff me. I love to ROCK and you don't hear rock music on the radio or in public that often. This is why I got stoked a couple of weeks ago when I met a Korean guitarist named Hyuk. He was wearing a Chromeo band T-shirt not because he liked the picture-although the picture is pretty rad- but because he actually listens to the band. He has traveled around Canada and possibly the US and speaks great English for a Korean. He is in a Korean punk/ska band and invited me to see one of his shows. After I flaked on the first one I felt obligated to go last night, and I'm glad I did.

There were 8 bands playing in an uncommonly cool basement venue called Moo Monk. 7 bucks later I was actually listening to some music I could bear. I've never been a huge punk fan but anything is better than foreign ballads, especially when leather pants and boots are involved. The bands all had their own niche of the punk sound. Hyuk's band plays feel good ska/punk with a little Social Distortion mixed in. Some were hardcore and screaming (which I like), some even played solos which is rare for a punk band. There are many times that I have felt strange and out of place in Korea but somehow in the midst of mohawks and tattoos I felt more at home than ever.

Afterwards we went to a soju bar. By we I mean myself, another foreign teacher from Daejeon, and every member of every band that played. There were Korean friends and girlfriends thrown in too, but I think I was one of about 4 white faces in 30-40 people. We took over this little soju place and had an awesome time. It's great to see a guy with a red mohawk and a full arm sleeve tattoo run around hugging people. That was my Saturday night, here are a couple crappy cell phone camera pics. I never have my camera when I actually want/need it.

I've also included a picture of the worst tattoo ever. That's how it was introduced to me by it's owner's friends. If you can't make it out it's a cartoony punker kicking a zombie thing (I think it's some kind of metaphor about being against the establishment and white collar jobs). We were all cracking up at it and his excuse was "It was free!" haha. Also there is a bonus pic from a tram in the mountains above (B)Pusan.

Bonus trivia: The Korean letter/symbol for P and B is the same which is why Busan can also be written Pusan. There are a couple of letters like this in Korea, this leads to some pronunciation problems. I think R and L are the same too.

Fun Pictures

My Mosquito Net.


I think this might be a kid's Mosquito net.



Flower tea? Tastes like water.



I think they eat these things!!! They're worms and they were still alive in this basket.