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…

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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

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

A few months ago Chad got  bike from another teacher who was leaving.  Last weekend we found another bike to complete the set!  It is a used bike and we got it for a bargain.  Please note the color and basket!

Last night we decided to go for a spin around Samcheok.  This picture is on a bridge near the EXPO site.

Pretty sunset photo taken by the camera man.

If you look closely through the trees you can see a temple.  I have only stopped by once.  Hopefully one of our biking adventures will take us there soon.

It took me a while to figure out my biking legs.  Honestly, I am still afraid of running into things like trees and dumpsters.

This is another shot of the EXPO ground.  The Batman looking building is an indoor cave!  Pretty fun.

Here is the set from Brazil, I mean the cement plant that you can hear from kilometers away.  Isn’t it lovely?  It’s the one structure in Samcheok I have been inspired to draw.  Well, I haven’t actually done the drawing part yet.

Me, Pink Bike, Brazil.

Chad, Blue Bike, Brazil.

This little bike path/avenue was lined with blooming cherry blossoms trees only a few days ago.  To the right are the river and cement plant.

Okay, the only reason I am typing this blog post (just kidding) is to share my petal pedals!  My pedals are petals!  I might not get over this for a while.

Look at the magnificent array of bikes on the bike stand outside of out apartment!  They all have words like “style” and “elegance” printed on them.

That’s all for now, Folks.  Thanks for reading.  You should look in our video section to see the drive from our school to Samcheok.  Gorgeous cherry blossoms.  Take care and happy (belated) Easter!

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

I’ve been working hard on migrating the blog from being hosted on Blogger to a WordPress installation on my new hosting. It’s finally finished (mostly) and hopefully will provide more options for hosting media and other content. It should be up when you read this…otherwise check back in a day or two

Also, we’ve started only showing 2 blogs on the main page so it will hopefully load quicker.  If you have any problems getting the pages to load or other issues please let us know.  Spicyfishy@gmail.com or just leave a comment. 

We have a couple updates that should be up soon about our trip to Seoul and Christmas Decorations!

Thanks!!
-Chad & Kate

There you can follow more photos and videos as they are posted. The pictures will eventually be more organized, but now almost all of our pictures are up there. (Same with the videos).

Enjoy..
and thanks for checking in. We really appreciate it
-Chad

Thanks!

K

This is just a quick note on what we have been up to. We got internet yesterday, our Alien Registration Cards today. Still adjusting but very happy!

In the next few days we hope to get a more comprehensive description of what has been going on.

This video is a small taste of what we can all expect in the coming months. . . Its EPIK teacher hazing.