broken camera

yesterday i broke my camera!

not seriously (i hope) but the little catch that keeps the battery in pinged off into oblivion and now it can't be used.  even for uploading the photos onto the computer.

we think (again, hope) it should be pretty easy for someone to fix.  and we have some pretty good birthday weekend photos and another kindy field trip so hopefully it'll get sorted soon.

but we're good!  haven't done anything too exciting lately.  but maybe we'll post a photo-free blog sometime.

haircut

Today was Children's Day in Korea, so we had no school.  Instead I tried my luck at getting a hair cut in another language.  It was pretty weird.  I had approximately 7 seconds to pick a photo out of a magazine they gave me, and my first choice was vetoed by my rather sullen hair dresser.  I ended up with this.

It's not too bad, especially after I got home a re-styled it (original styling involved the longest layer being flicked out at close to 90degrees).  Pretty good price too, $20 000 won.

Long weekend

Being a long weekend, there was lots of activity in Seoul. We went to Gyeongbok Palace, where the King and Queen used to live before Japan invaded, with Nick and his parents who had been in Korea for the past 10 or so days. They had a reenactment of the coronation which was packed out, which didn't bother me because I was around a foot taller than everyone anyways, so I just gave shoulder rides to those who needed them.  It was a pretty hot day walking around the palace, which was massive.

I found my long lost Japanese sister on the streets of Hongdae. At first I think she thought I was trying to mug her or something, but as soon as you show an asian a camera, they know what to do.

These kids on the subway made friends with us, because the little boy's english was spectacular. Much better than that of anyone else we had met in Korea, and he was 10.

Here's part of the palace, beside a pond. We just somehow, by accident became part of a tour group we didn't pay for and Nick impressed our tour guide by answering questions often and sometimes even being right.