Trimming our tree

We survived our first two-month term of teaching English and religion here in South Korea! This past week was filled with listening to and evaluating our students' term project presentations, giving and marking final exams, and the always-hectic junior classes, but we managed to make it to our last day of teaching on Thursday in tact. Now we have a full 10-day break between terms!

Second on our term-break to-do list (after Number 1: sleeping in) was decorating for Christmas. One of my family's traditions is to go to the mountains and cut down a real Christmas tree every December. I would have loved to keep this tradition up in our new family, but instead we had to settle with walking to E-Mart - an upscale and much classier Korean version of Walmart - and choosing a small tree from a surprisingly large selection of artificial Christmas trees (the selection also included an artificial palm tree). This afternoon we had time to decorate our living room and decided that you might enjoy watching us trim our first tree together. Here are some pictures and a video of our decorating fun!
- Ali

Our decorations before we had a tree

We ran out of places to hang our chocolate ornaments

We finally decided to light the candle that we found when we got here

It looks pretty good with Christmas lights

Trimming our tree! (click Watch on YouTube to see it bigger)

Our first family Christmas photos!

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- Photos by Jonathan