Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids

Saturday was a fairly eventful day for us especially in our new Korean standards. Teaching doesn’t really take up all that much time for me, I only teach from 3-9 and have an hour off every day in that period so I have a lot of free time. This usually means we sleep late, have Read more

Apartment, originally uploaded by A photo a day…. This is a quick video of where we live in Nammok. Nammok is a district of Ulsan, South Korea. We were really fortunate and have a huge apartment, complete with an oven and bathtub. This is not common in Korea. Read more

In some ways Korea is a very modern and efficient country and in other ways it seems to be stuck in a time warp. Everywhere you look there are cell phone stores, often 6-10 on a block. Everyone has a cell phone, children run around with them at about the age of 4. Video games Read more

So far Brynn has been hogging up all the stories and I’ve been completely silenced.  Now she is at school and I am left all alone in a strange apartment in an unfamiliar place.  I should be able to kill a couple of minutes of our time with things that I feel are worth typing Read more

I’d have to say that my first thoughts after walking around for a few hours today is that I’m a bit overwhelmed. We didn’t do a whole lot today mostly because we can’t really figure out what to do. In some ways this is exactly what I had expected and in other ways the complete Read more

Well we’ve made it. For those of you who are curious, to move to the future all it takes is 4 flights, 12 time zone changes, 1 date line and 25 hours of flying. Honestly, the flying wasn’t nearly as bad as I had anticipated. This was probably partially due to the “I can sleep Read more