5. Ice Ice Baby..

Well what an uneventful couple of days.. well not really but anyway. Currently I’ve been diagnosed with Tonsillitis, I took the day off work on Friday letting myself recover and dope up on prescription meds. Today was much of the same.. staying at home and watching movies and keeping warm. I’ve been invited to a wedding of two of the staff from Gurae Elementary tomorrow, it’s in a town called Donghae and it’ll be near the coast!

Ok so a few days ago (Wednesday) it suddenly turned really cold, the temp recorded that morning was -11 degrees Celsius! This is kind of what it looked like that day and on Thursday.

A couple of weeks ago the mountains turned from curvy to fuzzy. All the leaves fell off the trees (except the pine of course) and the outline sort of looked like this:
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This is the river that runs down our valley (can you see where the river is flowing and where it goes underneath the ice?):
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Here is our school pond and a ‘pot plant’ of the grass that grows in swamps..

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Then on Thursday we went to the doctors. Linda, my co-teacher who understands the most English has taken to caring for me through and through. She’s very kind and keeps on asking about my condition. I tell her to stop worrying about me and her reply is always that I’m so young (younger than her little brother) and that I’m in a foreign country and that I’m all alone so she has to worry! By the way, her brother is thirty years old. I guess she thinks of him as still being her little brother and thinking me even younger she gets worried. Anyway, getting to the point, she’s the fifth grade teacher (with three students) and her husband, Youngmin is the fourth grade teacher (with two students); it happened to be Youngmin’s birthday after we visited the doctors in Taebaek, we went out and had a seafood dinner! After dinner we did some shopping at the E-Mart there and then came back to my place for some tea and cake. They have two daughters but the younger one lives with her grandmother about two hours away because she needs 24hr attention (being so young). This one though, she is so addictively adorable!

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After that night I took the next day off work to recover and the vice principle and chief of administration came to my place to see if I’ll be ok. I’ve asked for two extra quilts and also a heater, and they came in and examined my sheets and stuff and I think they may have made a decision. Anyway they left and I was left alone to my warm room and movies (there’s a movie called The Visitor, check it out!). That brings me to today during which I also watched more movies, finished my book and went to the restaurant for lunch. For dinner though I attempted “Momma-style” chicken curry. Either I’m losing my memory, or it came out unexpectedly good! Almost like she used to make it, the only two differences were the rice (they don’t have long-grain here) and the Masala is slightly different too. But other than that, I thought it came out ok..

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Ok well thats all for today.. I should have some pics of the wedding tomorrow or Monday (unless something stops me from going..)! Bye!