Ben's Joke of the Week

Who invented King Arthur's Round Table?
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Sir Cumference!

Weekend Fun!

Korean Tradition
Two weekends ago, our friends the Reigh Family had us over for some Traditional Korean food and games.

Jee and Yoon Ha taught me how to cook a traditional meal!

Yoon Ha definitely did most of the work. Really.


The boys talked (Yoon Ha, too) while we were working hard.

DELICIOUS!

A traditional Korean Game: Yunori



St. Patrick's Day? In Seoul?!?
A flying Guinness balloon parade? And green hats everywhere...


After feeling Irish for a few minutes, we walked around a new part of Seoul...

and had a nice, American-style burger. With fries.

It was really tasty--so tasty that I let Ben take that hideous picture of me to show my first bite of American hamburger.

February...and some of March

The Couch:
We needed a couch. A friend found this lovely thing at her dumpster. We said, "sure, we'll take it!", not knowing what that would imply. Ten minutes later, there were four of us-a Japanese woman, a cheerful Korean, and us two Americans-that were carrying this bright, orange, bright couch down the street. After some cleaning up, this is what we ended up with:

He barely fits.


Dinner at the Reigh (Lee) family home:
Real, delicious, home-cooked Korean food made by our friend Jee!


Sweet little Yoon-Ha loves chocolate.


Korean Movie at the giant CGV Theater in Seoul:

"Hi, I'm the Korean PC guy."


Kimchi Museum:
Delicious, and-as we learned-very, very nutritious.


LMC Ski Trip:



Sickly Jen went to the Sauna with the girls instead:



Staff dinner. After a long day at the spa, I was exhausted:

The Haircut

With a mere THREE votes, Ben decided that it was time. Here's the play-by-play of "Haircut Day":






TA DAAAA!

You be the judge.

Mister I-cut-my-hair-every-other-Saturday-so-it-feels-long-by-day-ten hasn't had a haircut since the end of OCTOBER. Can you believe it? He claims that it is all coming off on Friday morning (Thursday night back at home). What do you think? Should it stay around for awhile, or should it all come off in a couple of days?

Multi-cultural?

A couple of weekends ago, we met with our South Bend friends, Derrick and Lavon Null. They let us come along to a birthday party for one of their friends, which was going to be at a Mexican place in one of the famous areas of Seoul. We both love Mexican food, so we jumped at the chance to go. We didn't realize we were also jumping at the chance to wear these:


At home, they usually only make the birthday-boy (or-girl) wear the sombrero. Apparently, that is not the proper Mexican tradition...in Korea. The Birthday couple were given panchos to wear, along with the stylish hats. Here are our friends Derrick and Lavon:

The food was worth it all!

Valentine's Dinner

Our Valentine's dinner was spent at our apartment with some friends from school. Last week, we were pleasantly surprise with a couple of packages from home, filled with spices, dressings, and delicious warm drinks (and every kind of baking chip available at Meijer, thank you, Nikki!). With those treats, we were able to make an Italian-style meal for six, a real challenge with just a toaster oven and two small burners. Nonetheless, it was pretty tasty. Our Korean guests were very kind, bringing with them some...interesting...gifts. One of them was this: the "Poop stick". Yes, that is what I said.

It is actually a personal massager, much like a wooden back-scratcher. Instead of scratching your back, you gently pound your back with the fuzzy, brown blob at the end of the stick.

Of course, no Valentine's would be complete without Tom climbing onto the shelves and drawing a giant heart on our giant windows.

Quickly followed by KyungMin, who gave us a friendly bi-lingual window Valentine message.


KyungMin also brought us a traditional Korean game, called Go/Stop. We tried to learn, but had to look up the instructions in English the next day. We taught them a fun game called "No Thanks". Can you guess who won?


YoungUn, me, and KyungMin on my favorite steps.