Spring is in the air!

Our winter was nowhere near as severe as what we heard happened back home this year, but we were still really happy to have the air warm up and see the trees start to bud and put some colour back into he countryside. Ellen and I have been taking advantage of the nice weather with day trips on weekends to local festivals, having some picnics and also playing badminton outdoor with Kara and Matt. What's been really nice is the cherry blossoms that were out the first couple weeks of April. Here are a few pictures we took during that time.

Surprised Ellen with a picnic on her birthday. Scored some cheese we had missed out on since we left Australia and made a chicken Caesar salad.




Ellen brought me out one night to the Mokpo University Campus. They had a small festival going on, but the tulips and cherry blossoms were really nice.







Ellen copying the Korean pose all the girls were doing with the blossoms.


On the weekend we hopped on a bus and went to the Yeongam Wangin Culture Festival.

Festival to "commemorate Wangin, a Confucian scholar born there during the Baekje Kingdom (18 B.C.-A.D. 660), who was dispatched to Japan and became the teacher of the Japanese crown prince, helping the country's culture flourish during the Asuka period."







The streets through town a lined with the blossoms. We had an amazing day. It was 26 C with no humidity. Nice to warm up our bones after our not so cold, but very damp and windy "Korean winter".






It's nice to have some colour back in our landscape and our cheeks. We've been here for 7 months and time has flown by. We are truly enjoying our time here and our lifestyle is extremely healthy both individually and together as a couple. Tonight is Tuesday night, and Ellen and I meet at the gym after school. Play some ball hockey on Thursday. Wednesday is low key rest day with lots of reading. We never turn on the TV except 1/week for a movie. It's now 2:30pm in the afternoon, and I have an online class to teach from 4:00-4:50. The time between now and then will be used to plan my two lessons for tomorrow. One grade 3 class and one grade 4. That's it for now.