Four Months Later

When we picked up our dog, she weighed a whopping five pounds. The last time we went to the vet nearly a month ago, she weighed over 15 pounds. By now, I'm sure she's getting close to 20. I wonder how much bigger she'll get. Here's some pics for you to see her growth.

Chocolate Day

Hello everybody! I haven't been on here in a while, so here I am to fill you in on some.....stuff. The title says Chocolate Day and that's exactly what I'm gonna tell you about. No, it's not another industry driven holiday in Korea like White Day, Pepero Day, or Black Day. It's a special day I arranged for the students in my Advanced Class last week. Class can get boring and mundane sometimes and we all need a special day to perk us up again.

We started out with a little information hunt. I found 20 interesting facts about chocolate and posted them around the classroom. Then I made a paper with 20 incomplete facts on it and cut the paper into five pieces. The five people holding those papers were on one team. I had 15 other slips of paper for the other three teams and each team had to answer the same questions. The team to complete their papers first would win a Hershey's Cookies & Cream chocolate bar for each team member. It was fun to see the kids literally running around the classroom reading these facts and trying to write down the information that was missing! Team Snickers pulled out the win after I told them some of their info was incorrect.

Using the same teams (Team Snickers, Reese's, Hershey's, and M&Ms) we went straight into the next activity......a treasure hunt! The prize? Nine chocolate bars to be divided among the team members! I had hidden 16 clues and the prize around the school and playground. One student from each team had to eat a chocolate pudding pie before they could receive the first clue for their team. Oh yeah, and they couldn't use their hands or silverware! Team Hershey's finished first, but Team M&Ms finished the hunt first and collected the chocolate prize. Several minutes into the hunt, I looked out the window to see a student still looking for his second clue while the other teams were working on their third or fourth. Sad for him.

We finished the day off with a simple craft I learned in Guam. We used two sheets of aluminum foil to make Hershey's Kiss hats together. The kids enjoyed them and actually made them a lot quicker than my Guam students did. I'm apparently becoming a better teacher. Haha. Later everybody.

Look Familiar?

A few weekends ago Jen got to go to Gangwon Province . . . and when we looked at the pics thought it looked so much like West Virginia. See what you think! (And notice the "Korean style campfire.")

View of the river


Joe fishing


Notice the "fire" and meal (Ramen, rice, Korean style pork, and chopsticks)
By the way, we are now both quite adept at using chopsticks . . . how about you?


Joe's catch over the "fire"

A Little Lovin'

As gross as I think this is, I thought you might enjoy seeing this video:

A Day Off

We were so thankful to have Friday off this past week and were able to open our home to have a bbq, as American as I could get it!

It took us quite a while to get settled socially here in Korea. The church we have been attending does have a large number of foreigners our age, and we have been thankful for the people we have met there. We invited them to travel up to our apt (it took them anywhere from 20 mins to 2 hours) for a bbq. Unfortunately, we have no grill and couldn't get a hold of one . . . so we just did burgers and dogs on the stove, pasta salad, deviled eggs, grape salad (thanks to Jess - I need that recipe!), and watermelon.

After eating we went for a walk at Lake Park . . . and when we came home broke out dessert. We agreed that it was like a holiday with family - eat more than you can handle because it's so good, walk some of it off, come back and eat again!


As the evening wore on we broke out the cards and began a game of spoons. Notice the slight adaptation to the game. Yup, we used chop"sticks" instead.

An Assortment of Pics For You

Here are some pictures from the last month - hope you get a taste of the fun stuff we get to do!
(We'll save the others for another time!) :)

Sunset while taking Snickers for a walk at Lake Park

Jen and Sophie

Steve Green in Korea -
Jen's first Christian music years ago

Food prepared for a Sports Day for all Teachers at our schools: pig, dried squid, beer, etc. Hmmmm...

Mom's preparing food for the teachers
Teachers hula hooping

Jen and Cory at Lee Seung Chul Concert

Lee Seung Chul Concert (famous Korean singer)

Awoken at 3 AM because of a neighborhood fight

Cory and Snickers . . . bonding?