Dave and Meagan at Beomeosa!

We've completed our final photo shoot of the year and can not wait to see what 2013 brings our way!

Introducing Dave and Meagan

"Ludoph the Led Nosed Leindeer!"

Anytime we've traveled to another country where English isn't the first language, we'll hear funny pronunciations of English words that make us giggle a little!  Korea is no exception! There's actually no "R" sound in the Korean language. The closest is an "L" sound, and looks like this in Hangul: 르. I'm constantly hounding my students to repeat words like 'red, rainbow, reindeer, and right', over and over again until their pronunciation is better! We're making progress, slowly, but progress none the less!

Last weekend, Aaron and I took a 4 mile walk around the neighborhood, through the fish market, Gukje Market and Nampodong, where we stood and watched this darling kids choir singing 

 
Bless their sweet little hearts! Someone just needs to send them to my English classroom!  :)

A Cat for Christmas?

We knew the day would come when we would have to say goodbye to our little kitty Maverick, but I kinda wish it wasn't so soon! None the less, Aaron has listed him for adoption on two Korean websites and we'll sit here and wait... wait for the perfect person to e-mail us and tell us they would love to take him! How could you not take such a gorgeous cat?!

I asked Aaron to write the dreaded ad, because it made me sad to think of even writing it and he nailed it!

Happy 31st Aaron!

So, the plan was originally to go up to Elf Pension this weekend for A's 31st birthday, but between the buses not running late enough to get us there Friday night and the rental car places not being interested in renting a car to us (foreigners) for the weekend, we cancelled our reservation and stayed in Busan. (Kinda sad, but turned out okay.)  Nice part was that I could cook A his dream birthday breakfast, which happened to be: 1 apple / 1 carrot juice made in the juicer, a coffee from Paris Baguette Cafe and homemade buttermilk blueberry pancakes!  Done and done! :)

Since we ended up getting all of our money back from the Pension and didn't have to spend $$ on the rental car or the snowboarding trip, I decided to spend it on a surprise birthday present for A... an Ipad mini!  It would be an understatement to say that he was excited when he unwrapped it!  I got tackled with kisses!

We ended up spending the rest of the day in our PJ's, playing with Aaron's birthday present!  We ordered kimchi jiggae for lunch (from the corner restaurant) and had home made veggie stir fry and delicious Australian moscato for dinner.  It may not have been the most eventful birthday celebration, but Aaron said it was the best birthday he'd had in a long time!  Apparently apple products and home cooked meals do the trick! :) 

Happy 31st A!

Rock, Scissor, Paper

Just about every decision made in Korea is done with a quick game of rock, scissor, paper, or as the Koreans call it 가위 (kawi=scissors) 바위 (bawi=paper) 보 (bo=rock).  But, if we say it fast, it sounds more like kai-bai-bo.  

All that to say, this morning I came to work and asked my co-teacher, Loola, what the plan was for our classes today.  Her response was, "Just a Movie!"  YYYEEESSS!!!  We have 3 classes together on Fridays and since only 1 of us needs to be in the classroom to supervise the kiddos during the movie, we decided to play kai-bai-bo. The winner would babysit 1 class and the loser would babysit 2!  I was taught, by some of my students to never throw paper 1st, because you'll probably lose.  So, I took their advice and threw scissors and WON!  So, not only is it Friday, but I only have to babysit 1 class today!  The rest of the day will be spent putting together our 1st ever Osteen Christmas cards and addressing them!  Woot woot!