South Korea | Week 16
Durning the weeks, we spend the days doing all the things – school, soccer, baseball, swim, Awana. I even recorded a haul from a Korean grocery store! But on Saturday, we hopped on a bus from my husband’s work and headed up to spend the weekend in Seoul. We’ve been to Seoul several times, but […]
Almabtrieb
Cows, flowers, alpine mountains, bier, trachten, roast chickens, Steakbrötchen, folk bands… In September and October of every year in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, local cow farmers guide their cows down from the alpine pastures before winter hits. The celebration when the cows come down the mountain to lower pastures is called a almetreib, and the experience is […]
South Korea | Week 14
The past few weeks have been dominated by school starting back up! Both of the boys attend a DODEA (Department of Defense) school here too, but their school is one of two (and they’re building a third) elementary schools on base and is about three times the size of their previous school. It’s been an […]
The Island of Jeju
We groggily and warily climbed into the car around three forty-five. Part of the wariness was the early morning hour, part of it was the reservation that I made for our family and our car on a Korean ferry. Making the reservation required at least twenty translated screenshots, including the translation of our Ford Explorer […]