Blogging Can Be Fun!

I was real sick and tired of this blog.  So tired in fact that I decided to shut 'er down, just as soon as I'd bound it all up in a blog book.  Then a funny thing happened.  I was sorting through old posts to decide what should make the cut and  remembered blogging can be fun!  I think I'll keep at it.  At least a little longer.

If you're waiting for new pictures.  Stop.  I haven't taken them.  Or, I have but I've already posted them on Facebook.  Either way, you won't find them here.  Maybe we should be FB friends!

Actually, I do have one.

Super Girl has a new house

Our new house is rad.  4 beds/3 baths and the biggest kitchen in Seoul.  Ok.  It's just the biggest kitchen until you get our next door neighbor's identical kitchen. Still.

I love this place.  And by that I mean Seoul, but let's just talk about our apartment for now.  It is totally Asian--wood trim, weird light fixtures, and pink tile everywhere.  Not to mention the fanciest ugliest green couch around. More on the couch to come, I'm sure.

We got lucky enough to be on the light side of the building so things are sunny all the time--just the way I like it. The walls are white-washed cement and nearly impossible to keep clean.  The Bigler Wall of Fame is coming back full force.  I think I might go ahead and cover every square inch of this place with photos.  I'd like that.

We're right in the heart of Hannam and only minutes away from the Han.  Google it.

Nate and I have been running every morning.  So far as I can tell Koreans aren't really big on early morning exercise so usually it's just me, my man, and a great big shiny river with pink clouds on the horizon.  One morning someone was flying a red kite about a million miles high.  I was on top of the world.

I know about ten words in Korean.  Here they are (spelled phoenetically by me):
*Annyeong Haseyo- Hi there!
*Kamsamnida- Thank you
*Juseyo- Please
*Mul- Water
*Duc- Rice
*Samjang- Red bean paste
*So- Cow
*Yumso- Goat
*Ori- Duck
*Neh- Yes
*Aniyo- No
*Oma- Mama
*Appa- Daddy
*Ajima- Granny
*Erin Im Nee Da- My name is Erin

I just asked Nate "What words do we know in Korean?"

He said "....im nee da."

I said "I already put that."

He said "that's about it."

It's not going to be nearly as easy to learn Korean here as we'd hoped.  It's not that we thought Korean would be easy.  We just thought we'd be fully immersed in it.  We were wrong.  Living in military housing means that we enjoy our own mini-America.  So we will just have to work a little harder to get to know the real Seoul.  We're up for it.

Now let me tell you about how great everything else is!

Nate loves his job.  Loves it.  Isn't that the best?

Natalie is about to turn 18 and got a motorcyle for her birthday.  She can take her Korean driver's license test  in about 2 weeks but we got her bike a little early so she could practice riding in the parking lot.  Good things come to those who babysit!

Jensie's class only has 9 students.  N-I-N-E, can you believe it?  She is a third grade champ.  I'm pretty sure she is the world's best writer, with the world's worst penmanship.  Her teacher says she doesn't care about penmanship, so now, I don't care either.

Asher's Kindergarten teacher is an angel. Seriously.  God sent her to Earth just to teach my son. Their first field trip is only a few weeks away (it's not like we're counting).  They're going to a Korean sweet potato farm.  Nate signed up to chaperone so he could learn a few tricks of the trade.

Frankie is a little girl trying to learn to be a big girl.  She hates walking around this great big city.  She asks everyday if we can buy another car.  When we arrive at our destination, after thousands of tearful baby steps, she exclaims "Look!  I love walking now."  *Giggle, giggle.  She forced us to enroll her in preschool and she never complains about getting up early to make it school on time.  She goes to ballet and is very good at it.  Her teacher, a strict Korean woman, dotes on her and bought her an ice cream once just because she's beautiful.

And me?  Well you know.  Same old, same old.