Our Weekend

This weekend Jin and I went on a well-deserved trip. Poor Jin has hardly had a moments rest since last December with her father's illness, funeral and then clearing up the resulting backlog of work. So on Friday we finished early, packed up the car with some supplies (we remembered the food but forgot the clothes!) and our shiny new folding bikes, and set off for the sea. We visited two Islands -- Ganghwa and Seokmo. Seokmo is only reachable by ferry, and sufficiently unpopulated to temporarily wash from our minds images of the cramped concrete metropolis of Seoul which have been slowly engraving themselves on our long term memory. Unfortunately we had to finish the trip today as Jin teaches a class on Saturday evenings, but it was still a refreshing change.

It's hard to believe only a few days before the whole of Bucheon (the city where we live, part of the Seoul urban sprawl) had been covered in snow. We had heavy snowfall on Tuesday night -- an extremely unusual event for this time of year, and within a day and a half it had all vanished under the warm spring sun. Not before I managed to take some pictures of the newly carpeted campus though... you can find those and some pictures from our trip on my web album here.

Sorry to be out of touch for so long! My life is slowly settling down now, so hopefully I will get better. Love to you all :-)