Critter took on a whole new adventure as he stepped up to the guards of Gyeongbokgung Palace. This is the central and largest palace in Seoul, which I think surpasses the Forbidden City in beauty and the the Golden Temple of Japan in architecture.It was a cold day, so...
Yep. That's right. Critter made the long, long flight over here. He was a little jet lagged when he first arrived, since our days were his night and so forth, but he's now fully recovered and out exploring.The first order of business was to get him in a hanbok. Luke...
Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Beth is sending the cute, the adorable, and the very famous Critter (created by Ian Sands) on an airplane to visit me and my boys here in Korea! We are excited.And now we must decide all the fun stuff we are going to do with Critter. The palace is a...
Happy Chu-sok! What is Chu-sok you ask? Basically, it’s a festival celebrating the harvest and a time for families to get together. Think of it like the Korean version of American Thanksgiving. If you’re a Korean woman, you will be cooking for days to prepare for the...
Happy Chu-sok! What is Chu-sok you ask? Basically, it’s a festival celebrating the harvest and a time for families to get together. Think of it like the Korean version of American Thanksgiving. If you’re a Korean woman, you will be cooking for days to prepare for the...
Recently our family went into the countryside (about an hour and a half bus ride) to visit the traditional Korean pottery city, Icheon. If you've read Single Shard by Linda Sue Park, you know what I'm taking about.There's a festival held there once a year in the...
The view from where we eat overlooks the mountainside and down into the section of Seoul called Yonhi Dong.The conversation this morning at breakfast kind of went like this:“Daddy,” Caleb said. “Are there any tigers in that forest?”“Not any longer,” Daddy said, “but...
Yep, that's right. Our school has closed for the H1N1 Virus. We had three cases show up on Friday in our British School so that division was closed. But by Tuesday, more cases popped up so the Korean government has closed us down.Just a few cases doesn't seem like...
Back in KoreaIt sure is good to be home. Weird isn’t it to think of Korea as home? But it is in many ways. I’ve now lived in our building (F Dong we call it) longer than I’ve lived anywhere else in my life. Wow. That is wild.Each time I come back, I have all kinds of...
Another insight Anne Sibley O’Brien shared with the Korea SCBWI chapter is to dig deep in our stories. She encouraged us to search our feelings on race issues and emotions that want to bury themselves deep down when living in another country/culture.Then she asked us...