Spring has sprung!

 

Believe it or not, my laptop broke just after making my promise to write blog posts more often!  Alan ordered and installed a new screen for me, so it is now working again!

Alan and I went to Seoul last weekend.  This was the first time that we have visited Seoul since we moved here.  We had both been to Seoul before - me for only a day when I came to visit Alan in 2010 and Alan visited with friends when he lived in Masan in 2009-2010.  But Seoul, as large as it is, has so much to see and to do.  Since we only had two days, we only stopped at some of the main tourist sites and ate some beloved American food.

 

 

 

 

Our visit to Seoul was a lot of fun and a great reminder of why we're in Korea.  Since we've been here for almost 8 months now, Korea is starting to feel 'normal' to us.  Getting out of our routine and allowing ourselves to explore is refreshing and exhilarating.

Spring has sprung in Ulsan!  We are so lucky to live in such a beautiful place.  Alan and I enjoy walks, runs and bike rides outdoors where we can marvel at the beauty of our Mother Earth.  Ulsan seems to have come out of hibernation throughout the last few weeks and we have enjoyed watching it do so.

 

 

 

Alan is staying very busy with two sports teams that he has joined - an ultimate frisbee team and a baseball team.  Ultimate frisbee is very popular here among the foreigners.  Alan plays games almost every weekend in cities within an hour or so radius from Ulsan.  Unlike his frisbee team, Alan is the only foreigner on his baseball team.  He plays games about once a week in the mornings before work.  He really enjoys it and it is fun for me to watch when I can.

 

 

 

That's it for today.  I hope all is well with you and yours!  

Back at it

So, it's obviously been a while since I have updated y'all on how things are going in our part of the world.  Truth be told, I wasn't sure if I was going to continue writing a blog.  First of all, it's time consuming!  I already write in a personal journal (have since I was 8 years old) and felt like it was just too much writing for someone that is not a "writer".  The pictures also take a long time to go through, choose, edit, and download.   I wanted my writing to sound clever, as well as being descriptive without being overly wordy.  So...I gave up.  Despite requests from a few family members and friends, I thought I was finished with the whole blogging thing.  However, while Alan and I were in the Philippines last month, we met a couple that is teaching English in China.  We had a few great conversations with them over the course of our stay and in those conversations came up the idea of blogging our experience.  One of the women talked about how lucky we are to live in such a foreign place when compared to where we call home.  She keeps a blog regularly.  One of the main reasons that she chooses to write is for the benefit of others.  Expats are so fortunate to act as nomads in this big, beautiful world.  We have unique experiences that most people don't get a chance to experience themselves.  It would be selfish for Alan and I to keep everything that we encounter to ourselves.  So, thanks to my new found friend's inspiration, I will be starting this little ol' blog up once again.

Stay tuned...