El's Parents

Well, my camera is off being fixed at the moment. All that is broken is the little catch that keeps my battery in. It's costing me $50 to get fixed. Annoying. But anyway, it should be here by Wednesday, and it has some good photos we hadn't gotten around to putting up yet. So there might be a bit of blogging to come.

In the meantime, I got some photo's from some of our friends here. These ones are of our Korean co-worker El's parents. She's real wicked and we've been hanging out with her heaps in the last month. Her parents live in a place called Okcheon, which is about 2hrs south of us. We took a train there and a bus back.


I'm getting quite used to the frequency with which self-taken photos are shot. I didn't take this one, I'm not pro enough to get everyone in the shot yet. But I'm sure I will be by the time I leave this camera-happy country.






This was part of the lunch they served us. There's homemade kimchi (and another plate of homemade kimchi with the spice washed off), lettuce, green peppers, pork, this dish of cold potato noodles, various dipping sauces, donuts, kimbap (sushi) and more. As we were eating this they also cooked us pork strips on the bbq, and then made us some delicious fried rice.

Us girls got to drink wine or beer or coke, but the boys had to drink straight soju and nothing else. Suckers.

This is their outside bit where we ate. It was real cool, El's dad had built it himself and it had like, fans at stuff all over the ceiling. And he'd built all the tables and stuff too. This house is their retirement house so they've got a real nice garden, and they've done all the renovations on the house, and Dad just makes everything. It's pretty cool.





And this is all of us. Adam (from Colorado, friends with the new teacher at our school), El's dad, Nate (new teacher from Colorado at our school), El, me, Cam, El's mum (she's so small. she told us that her house was very small, but it's ok because she's very small.), and Atrina (she's Canadian but Iraqi parents, real pretty)