Hello! Once again, it's been quite a while since we last posted anything here and a whole pile of things have happened. I suppose it'd be easier if we just posted shorter blogs more often, instead of mammoth posts every few weeks, but that might mean missing out on some potential fun times by being sat with the laptop. Better to have more in the way of fun times I think.
Anyhoo. Can't think where to start... I suppose the Christmas party at school, which took place on Christmas Eve. It was very similar to the Halloween Party we had, except this time the only person in costume was me as Santa. My job consisted of hide in one of the downstairs classrooms for 30 minutes, then come out, hand out some presents to all the kids in a raffle style, then hand out more presents to each kid as they left the party. Then repeat 3 more times. It was suprisingly hard work, although I'm not sure Becky and the other teachers would agree, as they had to man the thrilling Christmas themed games for the rest of the time. Being Santa was kind of fun, but I can't see me going to Santa college and doing it professionally. Having two beards is just too itchy.
After the party our friends, Mike and Cecilia, invited everyone over for drinks, cake and chatting. Cecilia is an excellent cake-maker and seemed to be constantly whipping new cakes out throughout the night, which was highly pleasing! Much fun was had, and slightly more alcohol than I had planned, but eventually we headed back down to our own apartment for bed.
Christmas day itself was great. Firstly, it snowed, so I had my first ever white Christmas (sort of. Snow was definitely falling for about 2 hours or so, but nothing settled). Secondly, we had so many exciting presents from our families, including 3 stockings each! We got a lot of great presents, so a big thanks to everyone for sending us things and making us feel a bit closer to home. In traditional Christmas style, we decided to go and do some food shopping at the local supermarket after we'd opened all our presents, before going to our favourite local Korean restaurant and having bulgogi and bibimbap for lunch. Despite the fact that Korea is largely a Christian country, they don't seem to make much of a big deal out of Christmas. Most of the shops on our street were open, buses were running and taxis were available all day. This meant we could go out with everyone for dinner to a restaurant, rather than attempting some kind of home cooked meal for all the remaining teachers (the rest had managed to get away to far warmer locations for their Christmas breaks). So, as Korea doesn't seem to go for roast dinners at all, we settled on Italian and had pizza and pasta for Christmas dinner. It was very tasty, but I am feeling a definite craving for some roast potatoes. Thankfully, in one of our Christmas packages, we received some gravy granules so (if we get round to properly using our mini toaster oven) we may be able to fulfill this dream.
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