Life in Korea Archive

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

The 50/50 Principle

I’ve been in Korea 460 days of as this moment & in looking at the countdown I’ve got another 476 to go. Closer & closer to the halfway point. Life was such a culture shock those first several months. Everything  felt foreign – even my home. If I had brought more of our furniture – [...]

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Watermelon Extortionists

[could someone please find me a soap box?] It’s official. Someone…somewhere…is either getting a whopper of a kick-back or a nice percentage cut on the sale of watermelons to the US military. [not that they're actually selling] Exhibit A- the Osan commissary….yesterday. C’mon…you had to know that the Humphrey’s commissary is not that nice looking & definitely [...]

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

So My Timing’s a Little Off

Yep…out of heating oil…as of today. Which means no hot water until the one & only oil contractor (a one-man gig with one truck) who covers both Humphreys & Osan can finally get around to filling us up. [ugh] Normally that process takes a week. [double ugh] I tried heading to the realty office today to get [...]