Housing

This time in Korea, we're staying at my Birth Father's apartment. It's working out great -- there's a lot more room and he and SangKwun are hardly ever even in Korea so we basically have this 3 bedroom/2 bathroom place to ourselves. The only downside is that it's on the opposite of Seoul from where we used to live. And at least 45 minutes away from all the places we used to go... but we're spending our time here exploring our new neighborhood and discovering new, fun places to go.

Here's a little visual aid...

If anyone wants to send us mail... our address is:

You can put our name on the top and probably just print the address off. I would definitely include the Korean, because I'm not really sure what all the "singu paskabil" stuff is and if I even spelled it correctly. Can't wait to get some mail (hint hint...). Haha.

Biggest Seoul Snowfall

A couple weeks ago, Seoul had the biggest snowfall in over 10 years with 11 inches.

Here were a couple shots from our apartment window.

It was really pretty at the time. But now it's still sticking around, gray, and slushy. I hear St. Louis has a little heat wave... where's ours? I'm definitely ready for some sunny weather to melt it all away.

Gulp... trial by fire

On Monday we went to Poly School to check out our new apartment. The apartment is much smaller than Father's (not really a surprise), but pretty cute. It is located about 2 minutes from the Guro Digital Complex subway stop. (If you want to find it on the map, it's on the green line and called Gurogongdan. It's four stops away from our school's exit: Seoul National University.) The entire commute will take about 25 minutes, which is much nicer than the over an hour commute from Father's apartment.

The area seems to have a lot of high rise apartment buildings. We'll be living on the 4th floor. And we will actually have a kitchen/living room and two other rooms. The rooms are teeny tiny, but should serve their purpose. In addition, there is a loft area above, which will provide some great storage. (And a place I can hide from Mark since there's no way he can get around up there - hee hee.) We'll take some pictures the next time around, it just felt creepy to take a bunch of pictures of someone's random apartment with all their stuff in it. We can officially move in on Feb. 28th. Until then we will probably be commuting from Father's apartment, though in a few days we'll have a single studio previously used by one of the single teachers at Poly made available for us to shack in.

When we were at the school on Monday, we received some very sad news. One of the teachers got a call that morning informing him that his brother passed away, so he was catching the next plane back home on Wednesday. And the school desperately needed someone to cover his classes on Wednesday and possibly even Thursday and Friday (when we were supposed to be training). Sooo... Mark and Kim to the rescue! We're going to be teaching our first classes tomorrow with absolutely no training whatsoever. (Actually, one of the teachers tried to give us a brief overview, but it was more confusing than anything.) So we're going to show up at Poly tomorrow and completely wing it. We'll let you know how it turns out! Wish us luck.....