It's the eve of a new year and time to say goodbye to 2013 and hello to 2014. It has certainly been an interesting year with half of our time spent living in Cheongju, South Korea. We've been back in the states for 5 months, going on 6 about mid-January and the time has flown since then. Sometimes we find ourselves talking about Korea, how we miss the kiddos we worked with (some of them, anyway!) and just little things about life in South Korea in general. At the same time, there are things that I really enjoy about being back home again too.
Because of our previous adventures, I had the idea that instead of getting Chinese food for New Years, like my grandparents always did, we would get Korean instead. A good way to remember our time teaching English overseas and treat ourselves to delicious food and kimchi! Fortunately for us, we have two fantastic Korean restaurants just down the street, so for us it's a dinner of 돈까스 and 잡채.
In our time back we've been job hunting (still ongoing), gotten two jobs each, volunteered at the Children's Museum (as seen above), met some neat people, gotten cozy in our own place for the first time, spent time with friends, and had other interesting experiences. I hope that next year will bring new and interesting things and experiences just like those before it. This one will be spent with time in South Korea in mind as it was a wonderful new adventure that will live on in our memories.
