Holiday Time in Korea

 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Korea everyone! We miss you all and think about you everyday. Our Korean Christmas was the perfect balance of tradition and new cultural experiences. We had a Christmas party at school for our Kindy kids. There was face painting, snowflake making, pin the nose on Rudolph, watch a movie with Santa and a huge amount of cake, cookies, crackers, chips and of course a fruit plate (virtually untouched except for the oranges). All the teachers got the kids some gifts which were received greatly, for the most part anyway.

On Christmas day all the teachers rode the bus with one of our bosses, the infamous Mr. Park, to the owner of the school's house, the less infamous but mysteriously elusive Mr. Jung. There we had a fantastic Korean Christmas dinner of bulgogi, bibimbop, and another delicious dish of noodles and sesame something and a few other little things. Much wine was drunk, we downed a very nice, and expensive, bottle of aged single malt whiskey and merriment was had by all. We exchanged some secret Santa gifts, strangely enough Mr. Park had Taylor and Mr. Jung had me. She got a nice necklace and i got a beautiful neck tie. Not as great as being home with family and enjoying the unbeatable turkey dinner and Christmas baking but, all in all it was as good an alternative as can be had anywhere.

Happy new year again and we miss you all so much. Can't wait for some visitors...