This Must Be the Place: June 2010

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

From Brendan

Here’s what three shirts a few of my 11-12 year old students have worn over the past couple weeks said:

Smell my Funky Monkey Ass (With butt cheek drawing!)

VALUE
Be Of Make
Natural Life

Blue
Blooded
Drinker
Bock
Duffle
Beer

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

New Apartment: Currently Under Construction

The following is a virtual tour of our new apartment. Please excuse the random order of the pictures, as the picture uploading thingie makes absolutely no sense. Also, it was a dark and rainy day, so the pictures arent great.

The living room

Our Soon-to-be-enclosed Laundry room.

Our very long and narrow porch, also soon to be enclosed (unfortunately.)

Brendna standing in front of the building while I take pictures.

The second bedroom. (Probably going to be a giant closet.)

The Master Bathroom

Master Bedrooom.

Kitchen

The view from the living room.

Front Bathroom.

The view from the front bedroom.

Front Bedroom aka the "Brewing" room.

Storage room.

Front door!

Sunday, June 27, 2010

New Apartment

We went house hunting on Saturday. We saw some really crappy apartments, a few okay apartments and 1 brand new, top floor, 3 bedroom new build.

Guess which one we signed a contract for?

If you guessed the brand new apartment, then you guessed right!

It's still under construction, but they are "guaranteeing" that it will be move-in ready by August 1st.

The new building

Our Apartment is on the top floor

Our new street.

The street is actully not that new to us. The new apartment is only a half a block from Brendan's current apartment. 3 Bedrooms? I wont know what to do with myself. It has a separate laundry room, 2 bathrooms, a wrap around porch on 2 sides, a great view, gas range, extra storage room, built-in entertainment center and closets! (They usually dont have built-in closets in Korea.)

Now, on to buying furniture! :)

Thursday, June 17, 2010

The World Cup

How crazy are Koeans about the World Cup? Oh just crazy enough to gather in the streets of Seoul in the hundreds of thousands to cheer for their team which is thousands upon thousands of miles away.

http://www.koreaherald.com/sports/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100617001053

Monday, June 14, 2010

Korean Friends and Deep Dish Pizza

Our new Korean friends

Recently, Brendan had been working out at a gym near his school after work. The trainers at the gym have taken a particular liking to him and attempt to make conversation with him every time he goes. They don't seem to mind if he is biking, running, lifting weights or showering. Any time is a good time to talk to the foreigner.

Long story short, somehow I got conned into having lunch with Brendan, his trainer, his trainer's girlfriend (a yoga instructor) and another trainer from the gym. To be honest, I was intially dreading meeting up with these people on Sunday. If anyone reading this has attempted conversation with someone who does not speak the same language as you, you know how frustrating and ultimately, boring it can be.

The lunch lasted about 4 hours, two rounds of grilled pork, one round of grilled beef, a korean pizza, many sides, and various types of Korean alcohol. I have no idea how Koreans stay so skinny with all of the eating and drining that they do. Surprisingly, it was a pretty fun time. In a long standing tradition, the more you drink, the easier it is to speak another language.

In other news, we made a pizza! Not only that, a deep dish. Chicago style, this is mostly because we dont own a flat pan of any sort. Using a pizza dough mix, sent to us courtesy of Brendan's mom, some onions, yellow peppers, garlic, tomato paste, tomatoes, pork and mozzarella cheese. It was delicious!

Brendan carefully dispersing the ingredients