Sunday, 10 April 2016

March & April - Odds & Ends


Holy Week. Foot washing service at Jae & Karen's.
The big restaurant behind our complex (ours is the white 
building).Their parking lot pop music usually serenades me to sleep.
One last spring snowfall.
Visited The House of Sharing with the extended community and a visiting
Japanese group. Good to learn a bit more history.
Sharing stories. One of the halmonis (lit. "grandmother").
Strawberry picking! Glasses got all fogged up with the greenhouse air :)
Old-style wooden train / toboggan (part of our strawberry picking adventure). 
Surprised on my birthday with take-out chicken and beer (weekend junk food of choice).
Pleasant excuse for teachers to hang-out together with others in the complex...
Sarah, Karen, Lomie and Aurie on our roof. 
Activity Day at Connexus! The girl in pink is one of my lovely students.
Smoggy / Foggy walk along the Hangang (Han river).
Tiny deer!
Took in an FC Seoul home game at the World Cup Stadium in Seoul.
These dancers cracked me up --their whole routine was on mini trampolines :)
Bridal shower for Sarah at former Connexus teacher Anna's new house,
 (thanks for hosting!). This is my last month with my cooking partner :(
Political campaigning…National Assembly elections this week.
(Bottom two pictures thanks to Anna Engle)





Gangneung: Weekend Trip with Minjeong

Took a trip with my co-worker to the East Coast. Nice to breathe ocean air!
Classic Korea: cartoon everything.
Warming up at a seaside coffee shop.

Courtyard / greenhouse at our guesthouse.
Borrowed a bike and went for a ride in the country. Saw an owl! (see "birds" post).
Buildings for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Traditional architecture at a tourist site (old home of a famous author,
 Heo Gyun, and his poet sister, Heo Nanseolheon).
Statue of the sister...
Chilly wind around Gyeongpoho Lake --Nice birdwatching!

Namsan Park: Cherry Blossoms!!

Halmonis (grandma-types) enjoying the overcast day.

Market lunch / snacking before riding the bus back to Dosim. 
Mozzarella Hotteok --yummy! (Photo from Minjeong).








April flowers


Forsythia




Magnolia


Cherry Blossom Tree


Lilac


Friday, 11 March 2016

Jan & Feb - Odds 'n Ends

Spent Lunar New Year, Seollal, with Yeoreum and her family. We visited 
Incheon's Chinatown and ate some yummy street food called Kkultarae.
"Shovelling" snow.
Behind me you can see our neighbour's pear orchard. (February. On our roof).
Went on a DMZ (De-militarized zone) tour. This train station is in a border town.
It's not used today for through-trains today, but the hope is that someday it will be. 

Witnessed a fire at a food stall.
Doodle/drawing inspired by Hwatu cards.

Friday, 26 February 2016

Murals - mostly from Incheon


This is a church's parking garage :)
Folktale murals from Incheon's fairytale village.



Liked the ramyeon in this one (Hongdae).

Birds - all year.