Thursday, February 16, 2012

One Year Ago

One year ago we were leaving the Bay Area to come to South Korea. As our time here winds down we are trying to be present for everything here (last trip to a certain neighborhood, last Sunday ultimate pick-up, last school lunch). There are absolutely things that I will miss but it also feels like the right time to leave. We are both looking forward to *hopefully returning to school in the fall and as our time winds down here, I'm beginning to day dream more about that (and our 6 week vacation). I'll start to hear back from schools in March. No word yet for me.

Sometimes, living here, it has easy to get bogged down in the small difficulties of navigating life in a foreign country. For example, just this week, getting our visa extended for 9 days involved 2 days, 3 hours of waiting, and about 3 hours total on public transit, buying what I presumed were plain sesame seeds only to discover they are mixed with dried fish, or transferring money home when your computer was just wiped clean.

However, it has been fun looking through all our photos, remembering the trips, the friends, and the adventures.  Thankfully, these last couple of weeks we've also managed to squeeze in a few more fun things before leaving. Here are a few photos.

January 28 we had our 1 year wedding anniversary. Here we are in our apartment holding a photo of us taken on our wedding day. Thanks Pinterest for the idea!

To celebrate our anniversary we took a short evening cruise around the beach.

Busan from the ocean, a view we had not seen before.

Going underneath the bridge.

The bridge.

It's snowed a handful of times. This was one of the less dramatic times, but one of the times we had a camera.

There was one mountain on our "to climb list", so we went last weekend, but took a wrong turn. We went halfway up, and then promptly, came back down. Oh well. I still think it counts.

A sign demonstrating ways forest fires can start.

But of course there were the obligatory exercise parks sprinkled along the base of the mountain, and the trail.




A year ago today.

One year ago.

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