Daily Life

Now that school is over for the winter, I finally put together a blog entry about my daily life. Still, it might be interesting to see, so here's a blog on what my life over here is like on a day-to-day basis.

Today's Korean: 본교의 방문을 환영합니다 : Welcome to our school.

It's a lot of pictures, so it's all after the cut. Click to read more.

Dreaming of a White Christmas

I've been really bad about posting lately, but I have plenty more to say, so new posts are forthcoming. First of all, I sort of skipped right over Christmas and New Year's Ever. In America, that would be really missing out on a lot, but here in South Korea, those holidays aren't celebrated much. There wasn't any exciting buildup, no decorations or parties, and not much to say about it in general.

Of course, the foreigners tend to make up for that by having their own parties, so Sandy, Sam, Courtney, Melinde and I had a Christmas party for ourselves. It was very cute, including a Christmas Eve dinner, a sleep-over, present exchanging, and lots of laughs. I didn't take any pictures, though, except the following of us eating our Christmas Morning breakfast.

After that, I had a very busy weekend visiting my friend and co-worker, the school nurse Yu Jung-im. She is Protestant, but when I told her about my desire to attend a Catholic Mass, she very kindly arranged for me to attend with a friend of hers and her friend's daughter. Both of them were very friendly and we all ate lunch together afterward. I was really glad to attend Mass. I noticed that the women keep up the old-fashioned tradition of wearing veils, but otherwise, it was pretty recognizable. We even sang carols in Korean.

There are a few pictures of the rest of the weekend, so I'll post the rest under the cut. Just click to read more.