Sat down and met some people who work for the company that up to this were strangers. But they didn't speak much English, so it was kinda difficult to get to know them. Everyone had red wine, and there was toast after toast. Not from wine glasses, but from these little vials. Wine is something I'd like to enjoy, but just can't get into. Sorry, wine drinkers, wine makers.
But even before the wine came out, a number of plates were already arranged in the middle of the table. There's a big glass spinning thing, you get to spin it around to get the various plates and bowls to you. That's pretty common. On the table was some kinda fried-then-baked fish that still had a lot of bones in it. And duck. I had duck for the first time. Ducks are oily creatures. Even their tongues.
Pictured: duck tongue
Then moved on and had some kinda radish and cucumber dish. Glass noodles, so named because you can see right through them. After they are cooked they take on a slight coloration based on what spices you cook them with, but uncooked it seriously looks like strands of glass. In the States we have cabbage and black-eyed peas around New Year's. The idea being, I think, that you'll have financial success in the coming year.
In a way it's easier to see how eating pig ears would make you listen to your parents if you are very young, or help you keep your hearing if you are very old.
After eating and etc we played a few games. I lost at a hot potato type game and had to either drink or perform. So I played about half of 'The Science of Selling Yourself Short' by Less Than Jake on my ukulele. It went well; when I looked up from my ukulele there was a room full of people recording me on their phones.
And I won the door prize and I got some fancy headphones. Another example of me being entirely too lucky. Headphones were going to be my first purchase after a paycheck, too. I don't know what to do with myself.
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