A Band in the Making

Nathan and I have been giving our intentions for this next semester here a lot of thought lately.

As of now, the weather is excruciating. It rains almost everyday, while being in the high 80's, and with an insane amount of humidity. Nothing beats teaching inside a sauna (class) room ;). The weather leaves me no choice other than to wear dresses with rain boots. I THINK it's normal here; however, I find people staring more often. Is it my skin or my boots?? Who's to say! We find ourselves wanting to escape to anywhere INdoors and with Air-con blasting in our faces. I've been able to keep running, but have to wait until the sun is down and expect to be drenched by about mile 2 with a lovely humid sweat. The forecast is starting to ease up on us a bit. It's continuing to get HOTter, but apparently the humidity will start decreasing pretty soon. Fingers crossed!

As we experienced when we first got here and from what others say, the winter is the EXTREME opposite. Complete dryness and a chill all the way to the bone marrow! There will definitely be some investing in some nice insulated jackets once that time rolls around.

Why am I telling you about the weather?? Well, Nathan and I have been talking about some hobbies that we could pursue during our time here that would not be so dependent on the weather. Most of our hobbies tend to revolve around the outdoors. Our solution.... a keyboard! Yes, we went to the music "mall" and picked out a used keyboard and stand to make our home a place of learning a new instrument. I've taken lessons in the past, but I'd rather not tell you that, because they really did me no good and I'm starting from scratch all over again. We're pretty excited about it. We probably WON'T be starting a band anytime soon, but we WILL be spending our many hours escaping the heat sitting at the piano trying to self-teach.

That's our big news from Korea. A new hobby in the making. Next up, Nathan's very own electronic drumset. He's been a drummer since he was a youngster, but hasn't been able to play recently due to the lack of space/traveling the WORLD.

We're pretty excited about it and it gives us a little bit of hope in our time we still have here.

Happy 4th of July everyone! We opted out of running through the DMZ with the American flag, but it would have been VERY patriotic of us.

In the 85 degree pouring rain. We cross this stream everyday for school.

Flip flops in the rain... big surprise, right!?

Here she is!