A WOMAN President!

I am SHOCKED!!! In a country where most women are still expected to cook, clean, take care of the children, stay home, and basically be a servant to their soju drinking husbands, a WOMAN has been elected president!  Social progress is in full view today!
Congratulations Park Geun-hye.

Although, she's not just ANY woman. She's incidentally the daughter of Korea's assassinated dictator, Park Chung-Hee, who served as dictator from 1961 to 1979, and she actually grew up in the Blue House (Korea's equivalent to America's White House) 

"Many hope the elevation of the first woman to the presidency will help shatter the old patriarchal Confucian habits which permeate South Korean society." - BBC
FOR THE SAKE OF ALL MY KOREAN FEMALE FRIENDS, I SURE HOPE SO!

 Here's the rest of the BBC article about Korea's newest President!

Handstand contests!

I'm not sure how these handstand contests first started between Aaron and I, but they've become quite the beloved tradition in our relationship and are always cause for a lot of potential broken limbs, but more importantly a lot of laughs!  Aaron always thinks he has a chance of winning, but that's because he forgets I did competitive gymnastics for 5 years!  Such a dreamer! :)

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!