Four New Additions to our Family

Korean Phrase of the week: Uri Pubu Imnida, (we are husband and wife)

We have been making an effort to eat fairly healthy and exercising regularly.  We bought some plants to release more oxygen in our apartment: Steve (because it's funny), Pubu (because it refers to husband and wife in Korean), Burrito (because it is our favorite food) and Island John (Inside joke).

from left to right: Steve, Pubu, Burrito, and Island John, which is Steve's twin.

Recently, our days have consisted of: wake up at 6am, talk to friends and family via skype, maybe go on a run, go to school and slowly become exhausted from keeping order in the classroom as well as try to translate broken english in order to complete our daily tasks, work on lesson plans, come home, make dinner, maybe go to the park to play badminton or do some yoga, give each other massages, and pass out by 9pm.

Playing badminton at the park

Luckily at our school we are fed lunch and snacks everyday!  These lunches aren't your typical school hot lunches with fake mashed potatoes and microwaved pigs-in-a-blanket.  We are fed a good amount of vegetables, soup and rice; all of which are delicious!  When we get home from school, we have been making healthy dinners which could include salad greens, eggs and toast.  Ryan has been saying that he feels like a vegetarian now, and needs more meat.

The beautiful dinner we made the other night.  It even had meat inside the noodles.  Most of our dinners include playing cards.

Ryan Turned 27!

For Ryan's birthday, we had to go to school all morning and work on lesson plans until about 2pm, then we had to go pick up our medical results at the hospital from the physicals we had to take, and then after that we had to wait in line at the immigration office for three hours in order to get our alien cards.  It wasn't an ideal Birthday.  So this weekend we are going to explore a little more.  We are going to take the subway to the famous river here in Seoul to play around, and then we are going to eat at...........OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE!  It is Ryan's birthday wish.