Travel Log Korea from the begining and onward
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| Well things are settling down and people are settling
in, Lily finally finished cleaning her new apartment, not
because she had to but because she volunteered only to
find out that Eric was perhaps more messy than she
anticipated. Among the finds were candles and rocks in
the refrigerator which Eric swears must have been left
there by either Kevin or Shannon because he cannot
imagine why he would have done such a thing. Either
way, Lily should be moving out this evening which gives
me my own apartment again, and a lovely new person just a
few minutes away from me, aside from working with me. She
started feeling out the new classes today and enjoys the
POB (very young, very basic learners) as much as I do, so
that is an excellent start. It looks like Mr. Kim has
agreed that their is one student in the class who needs
to be moved to my more basic preschool class (Jayho for
those of you in the know a 6 year old boy with all the
symptoms of ADD who is trying to learn a new language on
top of it) may be moved to my six o’clock priLily
class, which should make it more interesting. The new Korean teacher Liz has us all scratching our
heads, as she seems to have forgotten much of the English
she had when she acquired the job, and communication
seems to break down on a regular basis. Alas, she is my
partner in many classes so I have to work through it
regardless. It's been raining here, and downright cold all of the
sudden, with the evening temps being in the low 20's
which is awfully chilly compared with the high temps of
the low 30's just a few weeks ago. We've had allot
of rain the last two days and have been told to expect a
Typhoon or two for the Korean Thanksgiving holiday which
is either this weekend or next weekend, although I
suspect it is this weekend. Apparently if I had wanted to
leave Daegu I needed to have made plans sometime in April
as it will be impossible to get a ticket anywhere now. Mr. Kim's mother was taken out to Seoul this week
where she underwent triple by-pass surgery, so the last
week has been a bit stressful for him, what with the
sudden disappearance of Jenny, and the arrival of a new
teacher so conveniently out of the blue and off the
plane. Fate it seems was good. Other than that there is not too much to report, so I
thought if I had not mentioned I might mention now that
baking is hard to do in Daegu. All of our apartments are
equipped with a stove, but that is all. There is no
American oven. In fact the stoves hark back to those old
Coleman gas powered camp stoves, they are irritating to
turn on and irritating for the most part to use and you
can really make biscuits. If anyone has a recipe or
suggestions for stove top breads they would be most
welcome as it would be nice to be able to bake your own
things. Time is passing quietly and peacefully and I've been
told that soon the leaves will change colors which I am
looking quite forward too, I will probably go up in the
mountains and walk around as the leaves change, which
should be fairly exciting. I managed to get my bank in the US to activate the
debit card they sent me without my taking it to an ATM
and using my pin which is the only way I am supposed to
be able to access it. I explained to the bank that I
would be happy to do it he conventional way if they would
walk me through it, in Korean, and they chickened out. I miss all of you, and for the most part would like to
hear some kind words from home at the moment. Hope all is
well for you. |