At breakfast with the family we're living with in Poch'un. We live in a house with our bosses, Dr. Park and Mrs. Myun (husband and wife), plus their daughter, two male boarding students, and another teacher. On this morning we ate kimchi, seaweed soup, rice and fish patties covered in egg.
Every autumn Mrs Myun makes a cherry wine and stores it inside this vessel. The cherries are hand-picked from the cherry trees that grow on the mountainside. We drank some when a visitor came to the house.
Our home and the adjacent school sit atop a small mountain, reached by driving up a perilous, cracked cement road.
Stephen and his special friend JeDu which means "wise brains" in Korean. Yesterday Stephen witnessed an epic battle between JeDu and an as-yet-unidentified creature that has been referred to as everything from a "tree lemur" to a "super raccoon." It was at least as big as JeDu according to some accounts.
Adrienne and Hello Kitty laboring over her MFA application. When Adie finished, we celebrated by eating noodles at a nearby restaurant and going into Poch'un city to go bauble shopping. At the restaurant, we ordered "Kimchi water noodles" - but instead of a steaming bowl of noodles, we got a frosty bowl of ice noodles.
Stephen, Mrs. Myun, and Karam outside enjoying some snow last week. The family had to walk up the steep mountain road after their car got stuck at the bottom but everyone was in great spirits and enjoying the weather when we came out to greet them.
Us after decorating the Christmas tree. It was a festive occassion, only I hope that the indoor socket that is dangling off the tree doesn't cause an electrical fire. If the school is still standing in January, consider it a Festivus miracle!
Adrienne with Mrs. Myun, Karam, the two boarding students, the other teacher, and Ung-E, the golden retriever.
At breakfast with the family we're living with in Poch'un. We live in a house with our bosses, Dr. Park and Mrs. Myun (husband and wife), plus their daughter, two male boarding students, and another teacher. On this morning we ate kimchi, seaweed soup, rice and fish patties covered in egg.
Every autumn Mrs Myun makes a cherry wine and stores it inside this vessel. The cherries are hand-picked from the cherry trees that grow on the mountainside. We drank some when a visitor came to the house. 
Our home and the adjacent school sit atop a small mountain, reached by driving up a perilous, cracked cement road.
Stephen and his special friend JeDu which means "wise brains" in Korean. Yesterday Stephen witnessed an epic battle between JeDu and an as-yet-unidentified creature that has been referred to as everything from a "tree lemur" to a "super raccoon." It was at least as big as JeDu according to some accounts.
Adrienne and Hello Kitty laboring over her MFA application. When Adie finished, we celebrated by eating noodles at a nearby restaurant and going into Poch'un city to go bauble shopping. At the restaurant, we ordered "Kimchi water noodles" - but instead of a steaming bowl of noodles, we got a frosty bowl of ice noodles.
Stephen, Mrs. Myun, and Karam outside enjoying some snow last week. The family had to walk up the steep mountain road after their car got stuck at the bottom but everyone was in great spirits and enjoying the weather when we came out to greet them.
Us after decorating the Christmas tree. It was a festive occassion, only I hope that the indoor socket that is dangling off the tree doesn't cause an electrical fire. If the school is still standing in January, consider it a Festivus miracle!
Adrienne with Mrs. Myun, Karam, the two boarding students, the other teacher, and Ung-E, the golden retriever.
2 comments:
Adrienne, congratulations on finishing your applications! That breakfast looks so good, just my kind of breakfast. It also looks beautiful there with the snow.
Hi A & S -- Looks like you are happily enjoying your time in Korea, wherever it takes you. I second the congrats to A on her MFA applications! It will be very exciting to see what the future brings....
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