Groundhog Day

Happy Groundhog Day everybody! I think the reason that there is no Groundhog Day in Korea is because there really isn't much of a winter. It gets a little cold, but it's only tough because they don't really have walls here. We finally got snow this week. Not much, and it's already mostly gone, but for a day or two, winter was here. It was below zero, and there was snow. Oh well. On to spring!

We've had an eventful week so far. Last weekend we had Jason and Abby over for perogies and cards. Seems like an unlikely combo, I know, but it worked out really well. We made lots of food and played canasta afterwards. Dawn and I still have some perogies, though the ones we froze kinda stuck together, so we have a massive ball of perogie. Still tastes good though. On Sunday we had McDonald's breakfast. Let me emphasize the breakfast part. Why is this significant? Because McDonald's has never had breakfast before. They used to open at 11. So that was something extraordinary for us. That day we also hung out (get it?!) with Jason and Abby on Mount Yudal, and took lots of interesting photos. They will (eventually) be put up on our photo album page. When I get to it.

Then the week started. On Monday there were a few birthdays at Good News Hagwon, so the teachers all went out for food. We ate Kalbi (pork ribs barbecued) which was really good. After the meal, we went bowling! This was a bit of a surprise, mostly because of some miscommunication. You see, Dawn had invited Grace and Daniel, the other English teachers at her school (both Korean) over for supper on the Tuesday night. Daniel had asked if Dawn liked bowling, and Grace had been talking about having supper the following night, and had said that they would go bowling. So when we pulled up in front of the bowling alley, Dawn and I were a little confused. But bowling went really well, though Dawn thinks she needs to bowl more, so she doesn't make a fool of herself next time. I don't think she did that badly though.

So Tuesday we had Daniel and Grace over for supper. We made pasta and tomato sauce with cheese baked on top, a green salad and garlic toast. They both seemed to enjoy the meal, as did our unexpected guest. Daniel brought a young man with him, one of his students from sunday school. Come to think of it, we never did get a name out of him. It was nice, though, to have someone for all of us to focus on, rather than awkward silence. See, despite the fact that they are English teachers, they don't converse all that well in our language. And then all of a sudden there were two of them: a friend showed up! The good news is that they got bored and washed dishes. Eventually, the night ended and we enjoyed a nice little evening!

Today Jordan came over and we recorded the guitars for one song out of the six we have planned. In other words we might have a six song demo in a couple of years. So far things are going well, despite technical difficulties, like a buzz that wouldn't go away!!! Plus the computer was acting up. Plus we had to move in our new bed. Grace called and informed me that a new bed would be showing up soon. So we let in a couple Korean men from the hagwon and we proceeded to remove the windows from the bedroom, drag our new bed through the window, then drop our old bed through the window and put the new bed together. All in a day's work.