Hello Friends across the Globe!

Sorry for the lack of updating, but as winter has started to approach our gallivanting around the city has petered out a bit so the update would mostly consist of what we ate for dinner. So, seeing as it's been awhile, I've prepared our menu from the past week for you all to read. (kidding!)

Well in our domestic life we've bought a sofa and chairs from the local thrift shop. (Of course it's my new favorite place to shop-for those of you that might not know I LOVE thrift stores and cheap things. Cheap in monetary value not necessarily in quality or appearance). It's nice to have furniture in our little living room. It makes it real cozy. We were very proud of ourselves for buying the sofa because we had to communicate "delivery" to the cashier. We were a little skeptical we had done it right until the delivery men knocked on our door. And, because it's rude to wear shoes in the house in Korea even your furniture delivery men will take their shoes off before coming it. They kick them off WHILE carrying your things. This is the second time I'd seen that. First time was the fridge and then with the furniture. I was very impressed with the skills and had a little chuckle thinking about American Delivery men taking off their shoes before coming in. I don't think Timberlands kick on and off as easily.

We recently had our thanksgiving dinner. We all had to work on thanksgiving day so we planned it for Saturday. But on thanksgiving both jamie and i brought Pie's to school (we bought them at Costco). Our teachers are so easy to please. In Jamie's school they wrote a little note and put it next to the pie saying "brought by James Lyon." He brought apple. And in my school i brought Pumpkin and while Koerans eat pumpkin they do not eat pumpkin pie. My co-teacher ate three pieces before 11:30! They loved it and we didn't even have to bake! For our actual dinner we made it a quasi potluck with our expat friends. We had stuffing and cranberry sauce (sent from the US by our friend Chrissy's grandmother), green bean casserole (with homemade french fried onions because we couldn't find the cans), mashed potatoes, carrots, salad, candied yams (half being Yams from a can-again chrissy grandmother- and the other half being sweet potatoes from the store. Marshmallows from Costco), and apple and pumpkin pie with ice cream for dessert. We had to go and buy a toaster oven the day before to be able to bake the carrots and the yams. Very important but it also meant we got to warm our pie and eat it a la mode.

OK. enough about food. The semester is slowly coming to an end. We only have about a week left of classes when you take into account all the exams and reviews they are going to have. It's exciting to come to the end of the semester. We're trying to plan a trip to Thailand for February. We'll keep you posted on that news.

OK. well,i hope you enjoyed our time together and now the moment you'll all been waiting for:

Exciting things about Korea:

Parking.
In korea people often put their car in Neutral so that you can push it if it parks in your way. I didn't believe this until the other day. i was out with my coteachers and we parked in this tiny garage. This car had parked in front of us, essentially blocking us in, but not so my friends! We just pushed it out of the way. Crazy.


Thanksgiving.
In Korea some people think of Thanksgiving as a Christian holiday.

Hospitals.
When you get checked into a hospital, you're allowed to leave and roam outside. There are many clinics in our area so daily we see people wandering around in the hospital pajamas (shirt and pants-not the open in the back gown). Anyway, it must make extended hospital stays a bit more tolerable.