tamales de elote pan~~

this is what i heard this morning when i was at the bus station. right now i am staying at leti's place in korea town, and i've returned my car already, so i am taking 2 buses to go to school. its kinda far, takes me one and half hours to get there, but it's still really fun to look around!! i love k-town.

anyway, i was waiting for the bus coming. there were so many people just standing, in a small station. there was a stone bench, and this middle-aged hispanic lady was selling bunch of pastries and cookies in a carbon box. she was shouting again and again,
"tamales de elote~ pan~"
i didn't understand the spanish, so i just wrote it down in KATAKANA(japanese) on my notebook and asked about it to my hispanic classmates when i got school. then she told me it means some cone bread kind of, and bread. eventually we found out one of the hispanic friends was learning japanese, so we talked in japanese for a while. it was so fun!!!

not just this, but since i'm staying in korea town, i've seen lots of hispanic people around here. the other day, there was a ice candy seller with this white small car was shouting something in spanish outside, so me and carlos jumped out of the apartment and bought couple of ice candies. he told me how to ask what they have, ( tienes de savor acido? ; means do you have something sour??)
and also how much the price is, and stuff. i bought my chocolate ice cream without speaking in english!!! carlos is leti's brother.
also, there are couple of cute white trucks around leti's house, its a merchandise truck, and usually there is a hispanic guy or sometimes with his wife or something, inside a car, selling some vegetables, fruits, jelly, and other small package food. it's so cute, and i've seen lots of youngs kids, household wives buying tiny little stuff. so cute! carlos told me in mexico, that kind of merchandise truck is always everywhere and when people don't have something for dinner, or whatever, they just go buy that from the truck guys. it's so cute. i feel like i'm half in mexico right now.

but at the same time, since it's still korea town, i see LOTS OF korean people too! seriously everything is in korean here, so you have no idea what the heck those buildings are if you can't read korean. thats including me. but because i'm asian, i think people think i'm automatically korean or something, so i feel like i really blend in with the people in this community. before i've started staying here, i was thinking korea town is kinda scary because there are some scary neighborhood, but actually it is very comfortable to walk around. and this is so amazing, you can buy soy sauce and kochujan and stuff at SAVEON in korea town!!! oh my god, i almost cried when i saw that them other day. it was very cool.

so it feels like i'm in korea and mexico and america at the same time!! i loooove this city!