Christmas for the Kiddies

We had Christmas parties for the children at our hogwon (school). The whole thing was pretty lame. We read a book entitled "Snow" which had nothing to do with Christmas at all. Then we sang and "danced" (walking in place) to a Christmas song I had never heard before that ironically sounded exactly like the song we used for Halloween. The party ended with Santa (played by Keith) making a dramatic apperance from the teacher's office. The children reacted in one of 2 ways: either they were completely petrified having never seen or heard of Santa before (apparently Santa doesn't visit Korea) or they immediately recognized Keith and made every attempt to remove his beard. I however, throughly enjoyed making fun of the way too skinny Santa-Keith. In retaliation Santa-Keith spent a full 2 minutes trying to figure out how to flick me off with mittens on...enough time for me to grab the camera :)

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

Merry Christmas to everyone and Happy New Year!!! We love you and miss you all!!! Thank you to everyone who sent us some gifts! We appreciate everything very very much! May all your holidays be warm and Merry!
Love,
Keith and Marie

Our address agian just in case

Address as follows, and you can put either Attn: Marie Jolliff or Attn: Keith Bryant

JY Books English Center
Attn: (Marie or I)
#Jae I 1 Bldg. 4th floor #1626-3
Suh Cho-1-Dong Suh Cho Gu
Seoul, South Korea 137-071

Korean Photo Booths

In Korea they love those little photo booths where a couple people can get in and take funny little pictures... Well we decided to take advantage of this and take some pictures to send out on our holiday post cards. We went into two different photo booths three times just becuase the first time was so much fun. You can choose your own poses and move the camera up and down and rotate it landscape or portrait style. Not only are you able to all of that artistic stuff, you can also choose backgrounds and graphics to show up on screen during the photo shoot. You take 8 photos at a time and then go outside the booth to little media kiosks where you choose your favorite 4. Then it gets even cooler... The kiosks are set up with a pen and you can choose from seven million options and decorate your photos to your liking. They have anything from backgrounds you can add, to simple shapes, little icons of cake and poop and beer and snowflakes and houses (you get the picture right? lots of stuff...) They also have the option to free hand draw with thousands of different types of lines (single color, duel color, transparent, neon, etc.) They also gave you the option to put the date on the photo in cool fonts and what not. Anyway, the point is that we stood in front of this camera 3 different times, and then spent about 10 minutes after each fooling around with this photos. So we hope you enjoy them, and please feel free to laugh just as we did :)

Thailand

Life has been crazy and we have not had any time to write a bit about Thailand. We had an amazing time in Thailand. However, we managed to arrive just as a national crisis occured. Protestors took control of both Bangkok airports. Thankfully, although hundreds of thousands of people were stranded, we were not really effected by the craziness. We were scheduled to go to Bangkok and to fly home from Bangkok. However, we opted to stay in Phuket (a beautiful island)...and by opted I mean we didn't have any choice. We were "forced" to stay on vacation for an additional 2 days and got the opportunity to do a little traveling in southern Thailand and visit a national park, a couple of fishing villages and a Budhist temple. There was no protesting in Phuket and everyone was very helpful in changing our travel arrangments. The trip was amazing!

umm could we get an update.... kay thanks