My apologies for any confusion earlier today. Those of you who are signed up for email notifications may have received a strange email about spicyfishy and namecheap. Basically, I forgot to renew our domain name (spicyfishy.com) so the internet gods stopped letting you get to our site. For some reason, that change prompted an automated email. Sorry about that!

Anyway… For those of you who are not on Facebook or Instagram, here are some photos from the past few weeks. Also, Kate has been much better about blogging regularly on her site, so be sure to check it out at www.katekorroch.com ! She’s pretty amazing!

Enjoy!

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I’m going to forego the usual blogger apology for lack of recent updates and I’m not going to promise anything for the near future because quite frankly we’re both preoccupied with other things that have to take precedence right now.  But Rest assured that once we are settled in Chicago and have a bit more time to devote to this we’ll be uploading many more photos and videos from the end of our travels and the past few months.  We’re on a pretty amazing ride right now and can’t wait to share it with you!  So, please excuse the hiatus…

For now, here are a few pictures from the recent months…

For more detailed descriptions view on flickr – click here!

For those of you who don’t know, Kate and I were stranded in Paris because of the Icelandic Volcano.  We stayed there for 3 extra days then took bus to Barcelona and on to Madrid where we got a flight home.  It was an adventure and it was ridiculous (and annoying).  Now we’re fighting battles with the travel insurance company which is very frustrating but in the end it was a nice bonus to get to see spain a bit!

Enjoy the Pictures,  We’ll be back soon!

We can’t wait to see some of you at the wedding in a few weeks!

-Chad

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Things might look a bit different with photos from now on because we’re starting to use Flickr to host them. This shouldn’t change much in terms of how you find or see the pictures except that it should be faster (most of the time) and much less of a hassle on our end. (That’s the hope at least…) Assuming all goes well with the photos from the trip we’ll gradually move all of the older photos over to the flickr account as well. So look forward to that, although you shouldn’t really be able to tell of a difference if I do my job correctly

Today marks the beginning of our last month in Korea We’re not sure exactly what day we will leave Korea but it will be sometime around March 1st and we’ll definitely be out of the apartment by February 27th or so. We will keep you posted on the details when we find out. As it stands right now we’re still planning on traveling to China and Southeast Asia for about 6 weeks after we leave Korea …. in a month. (Wow, we better start planning!!)

Last week we finished teaching! That’s right, a full month before the end of our contract and after coming back from 3 weeks off, we taught one week and now are finished teaching! Crazy! We were supposed to also teach this week but for some reason all classes were cancelled, so we’re off the hook – although we do have to go to school for a few hours every morning. Next week is graduation, so we’ll have some “normal” days then but still not teaching. After the 10th (Graduation) we’re not sure what we’ll be up to or if we’ll have to come in to work at all. That time is typically another vacation/transition time before the Spring semester starts. So we’ll see! We will definitely miss this job and how good they are to us. (and there’s really no excuse now for us to not get the pictures up soon….)

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We’ve been talking a lot about what this year and the coming years will bring and the only thing that we know is that nothing is certain. Where will we live? What will we be doing? Questions like these are constantly in our conversations and thoughts now-a-days. It’s a strange feeling to have such an unusually clean slate on which to re-start. It’s simultaneously terrifying and exciting! – but every day we move closer it shifts more to the later. It’s going to be great! So, I know it’s a little late, but we’re welcoming in 2010 and holding on tight, it’s going to be a pretty crazy (and wonderful) ride!

-Chad

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School is going really well so far this semester.  The class that gave us the most trouble last semester is much better (so far)… not sure who’s to credit for that but we’re happy.  We’re feeling very good about our teaching and are pretty well planned out for the semester.  It’s old routine for us now…    Knock on wood everything stays this good.

This week we have the Seoul trip, another school field trip, and I have a day off from my small school on Friday due to a sports event.  In two weeks we have a 4 day weekend for the Korean Thanksgiving “Chuseok” then in the middle of October and November the classes will have testing for the national assessment.  Then we’ll be into December and almost done!  Wow it’s flying by so fast already.

Strange how I’m already beginning to feel like I need to take every bit of this place in before we leave.  We’re so lucky to be able to do this.

On another note… our students LOVE this video.. and I’m sure you will to.  Be sure to watch for a while… some funny guest singers pop up

Enjoy!

-Chad

We went to the market and purchased more fruits and vegetables than I think I consumed in all of my elementary years  Sorry Mom.  But I’m making up for lost time by Drinking them now.  

That’s Apples, Spinach, Carrots, Peaches, Oranges, Lemons, Kiwi, Grapefruit, Watermelon, Cucumber, and Ginger… wow.  

Let’s hope we get through it before it all goes bad  

Side note – We’re all set to come home!!  We even have our bus tickets to the airport for Saturday already and have fixed all our bank accounts for cheaper transfers.. Wow, we’re excited!  And ready to be home.  Now to the packing :( 

Be home soon,

Chad & Kate

For those of you who haven’t heard, we have our plane tickets to come home in July/August!!  We’ll be back July 25th – August 23rd! 

Our Itenarary for when we’re home includes - 

Williamsburg -> DC -> Williamsburg -> Chautaqua, NY -> Evansville, IN -> Bloomington, IN -> Kokomo, IN -> Valporaiso, IN -> Lansing, MI -> Leland, MI -> Chicago, IL

FHEW… I’m exhausted already.  

We’ll post a more detailed schedule when we get it all finalized and it gets closer.  

We’re so excited to see everyone and to understand everyone around us : )

-Chad & Kate

Be sure to Click on the image to see a larger version without the watermarks.  

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A picture taken just the other day out by the ocean.  We rode our bikes down to the fishing village and took some fun pictures.  A little editing in photoshop.  I really love this one :) 

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An old picture from our trip to Penang – be sure to look for the tiny plant growing on top of the doorway!  Love this picture too..  

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Firedancers on Koh Tao. Amazing!

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The Cameron Highlands in Malaysia – so beautiful!

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Kuala Lumpur from the KL tower.  Over saturated and tweaked in Photoshop.  

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Kate kissing a cow at a school picnic last week.  We went to our school bus driver’s farm/restaurant.  It was a lot of fun – and Kate loved these cows :) 

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I took this photo at sunset near the expo center in Samcheok.  This is actually the reflection in the river which gives it a cool texture – it’s flipped as well.  

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Two of our 5th graders during children’s day celebrations at school.  The one in front is one of our favorites.. he’s really sweet.   

Thats all for now…

We’ll be posting more pictures very soon and hopefully an update or two on what we’ve been up do.  (Mainly school activities)  We’re heading to Japan in a few weeks so that should be fun! 

More soon,

Chad

Just a quick note to let you know that we both have new websites we’re working on. Kate has updated her Art website to include more content than just a link to her blog and I’ve started a new short form blog to keep snippings from around the internet etc.  

They are  www.katekorroch.com   and   www.brevity5.com  

Please have a look and leave a comment on the new sites.  :)  My brevity blog is a place to display and comment on things that I come accross on the internet, in the news, in photos, music etc.  I limit myself to only 5 words of comments which are all tagged so you can see any links between posts when the same words are used.  Pretty simple really.  

Kate is hosting her site on Weebly.com which gives her free hosting and a great easy-to-use development environment.  Great for actually keeping it up to date and interesting.  She will be adding more content to it shortly.  

We went to Soraksan again this past weekend with David and Eve.  We had a great time and had a great hike.  We’ll post photos from the weekend very soon.  

Thanks for reading!

-Chad

More soon…
-Chad