Unscented... ?

Well, I was in for a rude awakening yesterday when I went to TESCO looking for shampoo and laundry detergent. I had caught wind of the problem the day before, when I was presented with a Tusoc (Korean Thanksgiving) gift from the school, which turned out to be 8 tubes of toothpaste, 2 toothbrushes and several bodywashes, shampoos, conditioners and soaps that, when opened, hit me with a noxious blend of fragrances reminiscent of the Bay Cosmetics section. Oh god, I thought, this could be a problem.

Sure enough, there seems to be no such thing as unscented, and even Pantene Pro-V and Head and Shoulders seem to have EXTRA perfume added to them. Collin, the American-Korean teacher told me that usually there is so much perfume in any one product that they don't really clean your hair – they just dry it out and make it smell "nice". Grrrrreat. Although I finally found a Herbal Essence-type brand that had a semi-naturual flower smell, laundry detergent was a no-go, and even the baby detergent smelled like asthma and itchiness. So sad.

Before my TESCO fiasco on Friday, English Village ended for the week, complete with drama rehearsals, performances, and graduation. Graduation was an interesting affair, whereby the teachers all give little goodbye speeches and then they play sad music and give out awards and completion certificates, play an endless slide show of pictures, and the children cry and ask for our autographs. A bit disturbing really.