Monday, February 16, 2009

Country Life and Techno-Mart

For the past month or so, Stephen and Adrienne have been spending weekdays living at a rural English school and weekends in Seoul. This is Adrienne standing in front of a country cemetery on a misty evening, only a few steps from our front door at the school.

There are many tied-up dogs along the road that goes to the school. They are "muts," half-breeds, donkay in Korea, and they are used either as barking machines or summetime treats. In this picture, Stephen is heroically freeing a pup from his servitude.


Too cute to eat, too small to protect us -- let's tie him up anyway.

This little guy broke off his leash and was running around helter-skelter. We returned him to his owner, who promptly tied him up again.

After both of our cameras sustained some damage - Stephen's had a skiing accident and Adrienne's had a bad experience inside a backpack in Pusan - Stephen finally caved in and got a new one. Lots of neat features to play with plus a really long user's manual entirely in Korean. This is our Techno-Mart camera salesman, post-sale. It was an arduous bargaining session and he's just relieved that we actually bought something. V is for Victorious Sale! Techno-Mart is a 15-floor mega-technology store - I've never seen anything like it in the US.

Inside a multiplex on one of the upper floors of Techno-Mart. This is one of the first pictures with the new camera.

And while you're waiting to see a movie, you can step over and have your tarot cards read.

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