Posts by Katie
A familiar face
So Greg and I had our first visitor this weekend! My dad hopped across the Yellow Sea from Shanghai and stayed with us for three wonderful days. He spent some time winning over the hearts of my kindergartners (they almost wouldn’t let him leave) and we, in turn, had fun trying to impress him in Seoul—not an easy task considering he is so well traveled. Nevertheless, we think we may have succeeded on the last day with a trip to the Noryangjin fish market and a live octopus lunch. I don’t think I can adequately describe how great it was to have my dad here for the weekend, but as always, the pictures will speak for themselves:
The Soundtrack of our Lives: Part 3
And then there is this…..
Seoraksan
Clearly, Greg and I have been playing catch-up on these blog posts so as promised, here is one on our recent trip to Seoraksan. Greg’s birthday was a few weekends ago and it happily coincided with another national holiday ( something like Memorial day, I think). We had been to Seoul and a few few places around Gyeonggi-do, but we decided to take our last few dollars and the opportunity of a long weekend and to venture a little further in to South Korea.
P.S.
As as follow-up to my previous post, I’ve compiled a list of various media sources on South Korea which I think express the nature of our situation here in a more concise way. First is a video about the education system. It describes the environment here well– pretty much everything you see in the video we have seen here ( aside from the sections on tongue surgery). Unfortunately, the video has no English subtitles, but the English narration is interesting.
