Drinking with class, or something.

Erdinger on tap!!!!! And mango chicken salad. This place was lovely. And played music that made me feel like I was at the Olive Garden. Seoul is really weird.

Also these are my friends that you talked to mom.

My beer, the chicken salad, and Jon.

Me. And Becky looking happy in the background.


Hannah.


Jon again.


And Becky.

Yellow Dust

You can't tell that well in this photograph but last week Seoul had its first yellow dust storm of the season. Yellow dust blows over from China and makes everything really ugly and probably poisonous. So, everyone but the foreigners walk around in surgical masks. It was less than pleasant really. But it kind of made you feel like you were on a different planet which was cool.

Mail!!!!!

The other day I got a package of books in the mail from Sebastian in Austria. I was giddy for hours. Now I have enough pretentious German literature to last me the rest of my time here for sure! Yay!!!! Thanks Sebastian!


PS: You should mail me things! It would make me really happy.

Samgyeopsal

Samgyeopsal is pretty much my favorite food in Korea. You go and you try to read the menu or, if you are lucky, Minji comes with you and helps. First, you pick out a few kinds of meat, for example, samgyeopsal, which is like thick bacon. Then they bring you hot coals and a grill and you cook the meat at your table. Once it is cooked you put pieces of the meat in lettuce wraps with various condiments and eat it. Delicious.

Here is Jon, a friend from Korean class, grilling for us man-style.
This is kimchi, Korea's favorite food. (For real, I asked all of my kids yesterday what their favorite food was, and probably 50% said kimchi.)


Here you can see the samgyeopsal being cooked and some other sort of marinated meat that I don't remember the word for.


Kyle and Hannah ignoring my request to look happy.


Minji looking adorable.

Concrete Jungle?

Most of Seoul is really ugly. Like the forest of never ending 20 story apartment complexes in this photograph. And the sky that is gray and not blue even when it isn't cloudy.

I moved to Korea and turned into a giraffe!

The other week I turned into a giraffe. It was really scary and I looked totally nuts. Here is photographic evidence of the event.



Don't worry, though. I was normal by morning.

Drinking in Caves

We had Monday off this week because of Independence Movement Day, so on Sunday Kyle, my new coworker Heidi, and some of her friends were all going to go climb a mountain. Because that is what you do on your day off in Korea. But then it was raining and you couldn't see the full moon so we decided a night hike seemed unpleasant. So we went out instead. And ended up at this bar that was designed to look kind of like caves. Each little table area was in a separate cave and you had to take your shoes off and sit on pillows. It made me feel like I was in an ice castle or the womb or something. And then the dance floor was full of balloons. It was really awesome but the pictures really don't capture it at all. But now you know what I have been up to I guess.
This is my new coworker, Heidi. She is from Menno. Weird. She doesn't normally look that disgusted.


Me and a blurry Kyle.