Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

How Not to Spend Your First Winter in Korea

Lesson #1: Don’t run out of heating oil!
It’s snowing…still…again…still…again…take your pick.
As I wrote yesterday’s post the snow continued to fall – big white fluffy chunks.
We wound-up getting about 6 – 8 more inches and it’s falling again this morning.

But we also looked up to see a great big FLASHING 03 on our temperature thingy.
We were out [...]

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Lesson 1: Chuseok

Now that our internet is back-up, the dreaded battalion FRG meeting is over (with one more to go) & I’ve cleaned up Maggie’s “oh-my-god-where’d-they-go” anxiety-driven chewing fit, we can get back to the business at hand.
So let’s see…where was I?…
Oh yes, there was something about kicking & someone was screaming…it’s all a bit fuzzy.
[scratching head]
Ah!…I remember. [...]