The week in review

Derek enjoying his shower in the porta potty after his ultimate match!

Berries in Fall

The sun ray is reflecting off of the 63 Building.
The name of this park is "Nature's Study Area."
The flowers study in Korea, too!

It's Fall!

Go Team Shake-n-Bake! Undefeated!

Handsome hubby!

Worshipping with Shane & Shane and arts n crafts...amazing prayer.

Bike ride to Daebudo - about 8 miles, half in the rain!
Here's Anlee's treat!

Here's Derek's Lunch!

Two for D and one for A!

Teacher's training this past week!

I'm Freezing!
Thanks to our lovely bike ride in the rain, I'm now sick with a cold and we are 5 days away from our trip to Busan. The plus side is that I have an amazing husband who wants to take care of me and help me get well. Also, our students are currently taking midterms, so basically, we are seat warmers for the week. No classes! Sad note: D's computer has slowly experienced old age or maybe some kind of arrest and is not waking up anymore. We are hoping to get into Seoul for some repair work this week. Be praying that we can at least salvage our information from the hard drive.
We had a great weekend. D's team is still undefeated. We had some deep dish pizza from Pizza Hut and I actually ate a pepperoni! We had yummy burritos with our friends AP and Dennis, watched some Blue Planet and set down some more roots in our home.
Up next, a tour of our "villa."

Oh....it's Fall/Winter. I had my heater on today. Flannel pj's are coming out of storage tonight!

Teacher's Training

For the past three days I (Anlee) have been at a Teacher's Orientation Training in the mountains of Osan, about an hour away from our city, Ansan. As many as 300+ teacher's from 7 different countries were packed into seminars - some of which were really helpful and relevant - cultural awareness classes AND too many Korean cafeteria meals!

I enjoyed training and the community of teacher's. Each has their own story of what brought them to Korea and their experiences of adjusting to the culture. Most of them have been in Korea for a couple of weeks to a couple of months. I'm now going into my 14th month in SoKo, so being reminded of the feelings of finding yourself in a strange land for the first time was good.

However, leaving your new husband at home is kind of tough. If you add up the days, we've been apart more days than my mom has ever been from my dad minus the days she came to visit me in Korea last year! And we've been married for 6 weeks!

I met people on the trip that really blessed me, had some great conversations on faith and travel and really enjoyed my roommate for the training. For laughs: My name is Anlee. Her name is Lee Ann!

This coming week Derek is free from extra classes so we hope to enjoy the evenings together and catch up with friends and family. Friday we are headed to Busan for the International Film Festival. More to come later...

His love and ours,

D&A