Our Christmas was enjoyable and relaxing! We especially loved being able to celebrate together for the first time ever! It sure beats only being able to chat on Skype... Christmas evening we had Fabrice over for a Christmas movie (Elf!) and then he took us to a department store, La Galleria, not too far from our apartment. We enjoyed the views from the eighth-floor balcony, browsed through a completely Korean bookstore (not my favourite type of bookstore...all the covers looked so appealing, but I couldn't understand one letter...), and ended up in the basement eating amazing American food!
Boxing Day (December 26 for those of you who aren't familiar with the
Commonwealth holiday) was literally boxing day for us. We started to pack up our things and do a final cleaning of our apartment. In amongst the cleaning we also managed to find time to take Fabrice out to Toujours, a local patisserie and coffee house, for his birthday. Tuesday we continued packing, cleaning and moving furniture back into the rooms we found it in and today our apartment is empty of all our items (except the row of suitcases standing near the door) and ready for the next set of Seocheonan institute teachers to move in. We'll miss living in our spacious apartment and walking through the now-familiar streets of Cheonan, but we're excited for our 5-day sightseeing vacation to Busan, a city in southeastern Korea. Next term will be very different for us, but I think it will be good, too. Please pray for us as we move and begin a new chapter of our lives in South Korea.
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| Finished Christmas calendars (we managed to find them in the international aisle at E-Mart) |
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| Eiffel Tower & Ferris wheel in front of La Galleria |
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| Hedge bunnies |
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| Smurf village (with oddly-sized animals) |
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| La Galleria looking up from the ground floor |
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| La Galleria's changing light walls displaying Christmas trees and snow |
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| Christmas-themed blueberry cheesecake from Paris Baguette |
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Scrubbing the cupboards
(That purple bottle is the best all-purpose cleaner I've ever used! Sadly I can't read the name...) |
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| The line between scrubbed and unscrubbed... |
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| Jonathan vacuuming |
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| Tourjours bakery below, coffee shop above |
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| Interesting coffee descriptions... (we decided to stick to hot chocolate and herbal tea) |
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| Coffee beans on display |
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| The infamous Kenyan coffee (refer to menu above) |
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| An improvement on the traditional North American right-side-up Christmas tree |
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| Fellow Seocheonan teachers outside Tourjours - Fabrice, Ali & Jonathan |
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| Neat circular walking bridge around a large intersection |
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| View from the top of the walking bridge |
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| Suitcases lined up ready to be shipped to Seoul while we head to Busan for the rest of our term break |
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| Last picture of our apartment as we walked away to catch a taxi to the KTX station |
Sure enjoy looking at your pictures. I especially liked the upside down Christmas tree. When I look at your pictures I feel like I'm at a travelogue. Thanks for sharing and God bless both of you in your new positions.
ReplyDeleteAwww, so glad you enjoy the pictures on our blog. Thanks for looking at them!
DeleteLooks like a fun country. :) I'm looking forward to my introduction, if it works out.
ReplyDeleteIt'll be so fun to see your pictures when/if you're here!
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