Friday, December 29, 2006

Happy New Year!!

If I don't get the chance to say this to you in person - then Happy New Year!!

I hope 2007 brings fun & laughter to you all.

love
Squeezy

Accident at work

For anyone I've spoken to lately, you'd know I've had an accident at work. I slipped with a knife while cutting paper and sliced off part of my left index finger. I now have three stiches through my fingernail - which I'm not looking forward to having removed.

So just for fun (?) I took a couple of pics of said finger while I was waiting for the doctor to look at it today. If morbid curiosity has the best of you then click on the photo below.

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Hwangji Jung School Concert

This is the video of the 2 Christmas Carols as sung by my conversation club and I.
We sang "We wish you a Merry Christmas" and "Santa Claus is coming to town".
Watch out for the silly dancing!

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

As I watch Mike skiing tomorrow, I'll be missing all my friends and family in Australia and Japan terribly! (We're going skiing then off to the casino buffet for Christmas dinner.
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Much love to you all - I will call as many of you as I can :)

Happy Birthday Granny for today! The card is probably still in the post.

love
Squeezy

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Thank you & quick catch up

Heeeeelllllllloooooooooooooooooooooo,

So since it has been a while since I posted, time for some thank youes!

First, Thank you Granny for crocheting a scarf and beret for me!!
I wore the beret all day at school today and my students seemed to approve - which means a couple of extra "I love you teacher" were called out today. Also the beret and scarf are super comfy!

You can see me in the beret here.

Next, Thank you to Maggie for sending Mike & I an advent calendar! It really brought home that Christmas is coming soon. Also the thai curry sauces - YUM!! Total lifesaver!

Ok, so we've been travelling around ( I think I lost my fave mascara and eyeshadow doh!!), we visited our local casino (the casino part was rubbish BUT the VR games were great, the Russian dancing girls had an interesting take on the Can Can and the seafood buffet was sensational!) and we've had a little time at home.

My regular conversation classes with a group of 3rd grade boys has sadly come to an end - so I chucked them a New Year Eve party complete with party poppers! I have added as many names in as I could manage.

I took some photos from our flat to show off the view. Thrilling stuff, eh?

I have spent the last 2 days showing my lesson plans and trying to give our brand new english teacher, Jeff, a bit of a clue. For some reason he was dumped on me, as opposed to someone with a clue. It became a little frustrating, in that there seemed to be no plan for Jeff and after four days in Taebaek he still had not met his co-teacher! He's a pretty cool cat, so I think he'll be just fine.

Gohan's ski resort, Gangwonland, opens on Friday which is exciting! I have been told that they have snow, which until I can confirm with my mate in Gohan, I won't believe. As I understand it, the resorts here do end up manufacturing most of their snow. So if they're organised (Hah!) then it could be beautiful from day 1.

Anyhoos must run,
love
Squeezy

Friday, December 01, 2006

I ordered pizza in Korean over the phone!

Wooo Hoooo for me!! This is not to say I can speak Korean but I can manage basic conversations now - Yeah!

When I called up, I introduced myself and said I'm from Australia. We had been to Let's Pizza before, so I hoped the pizza man might recognize me by telling him I'm from the land of Oz. There are only 2 Aussies in Taebaek and that's Mike & I.

Sooooo, I ask for 1 pijja, pe-pe-ro-ni pijja (I don't think this really needs translation). Then he asks me something and I'm like uh..., then he says sije (relief!) larg-e!

Ok, so now I start talking him through our address bit by bit and that goes well. Good thing I translated the numbers before I picked up the phone.

We're almost finished and he starts saying cola. huh? So I say ney which means yes. Agreeing is definetly the path of least resistance...

So 25 minutes later we have fresh peperoni pizza!

:)
Squeezy