At last! Yesterday the weather was 77 degrees! It was such a beautiful day with a soft breeze. This weekend I was able to do so many loads of laundry. I really felt like spring cleaning at our place this weekend!
On Saturday Shadi and I went for a long walk around town. We bought a new food processor ($81!!) so we can make hummus and other various things. Then we went to the bank to transfer some money for our Costco order. After that we went to our favorite restaurant in the world: Nakcheon Galbi. Last time we went, we tried making a video, but the battery died! This time we made sure the battery was fully charged, so please enjoy a look at our favorite place to eat in the whole world:
After lunch, we went to the biggest grocery store in town. They were having some sort of sale going on and it was a total mad house! We ended up spending a lot of money, but we also got some free stuff as well, which is alwas cool. I also got to see a lot of my students. One of my students, her father is the manager at the grocery store. She was there with a basket full of ice cream! I was telling her she shouldn’t be eating all that, and a worker there came up and told her the same thing in Korean. haha I’m such an ajuma!
So the rest of the weekend was pretty tame. Shadi and I really don’t like going out on Sundays. It’s our day to clean, do laundry, relax and prepare for our upcoming week.
So today is Monday. The weather is really nice but apparently we have a 95% chance of thunderstorms today! Totally crazy. We don’t get a lot here in Korea, so when we do have them I get pretty excited. Today and tomorrow are exams at my main school. Remember on exam days it’s only a half day so we can leave after lunch. Today though, my co-teacher is going to help me prepare for a trip to a river that is so curved, that soon it will become an oxbow lake! What is an oxbow lake you ask? Read about it on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbow_lake
I learned about these a few years ago when I was taking a summer geology class. I really liked that class. http://en.ycg.kr/open_content/tour_excursions/tourist_attractions/natural_tourist_attractions/
That is a link to the river in our county. I’ve been there with my students with Maureen when she came to visit. We went in November, so spring time should be really pretty. We are planning on going Wednesday. Our AZ friends from Seoul are coming tomorrow afternoon since they have some time off during the week. Wednesday is a holiday, so we’re going to have a mini adventure! There is a cool Buddhist temple and a huge statue of Buddha at the lookout for the river, so it should be a fun little trip. We’ll take pictures and video.
So, that is it for now. I’m really on a roll with blogging. Oh I almost forgot! Shadi started a Haiku website. You can check it out here: http://icanhaiku.com/
Kathleen
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