Overdue

Well, it's been almost a month since our last post, so I'm going to put up a short posting sans pictures (they'll go up later) to catch people up on some highlights (as much as I can remember of significant things :)).

November has been a rough month healthwise. November has been Kay's turn to have a nasty case of bronchitis. Our systems are still finding all new and less-than-exciting challenges with the environment and cuisine even after a few months of being here. I'm pretty much better though I had some throat issues and.. my very first mouth ulcer. That's what the doctor called it anyway, I just knew it was kind of like a canker sore on steroids with an energizer battery (it kept going and going). It's since gone away on its own (though I might be starting to get another one... urk!). Kay has had a rough time with the bronchial virus, hacking and coughing. It seems to be getting a *tiny* bit better from what I can tell but it's still long. She also managed to do something to her ribs/back so it's painful when she coughs too hard and feels like something is a tiny bit out of place. It's already shifted once and seems to have gotten a bit better since at first.

Outside of health, it's been a fairly busy month. Our themes for November (and most of December) have revolved around multiculturalism... learning about countries, flags, anthems, traditional clothing and foods, etc from different parts of the world. We also had a week for American Thanksgiving which involved inviting all the grandparents of the students to join us for our 'Thanksgiving Feast' and take part in a special cooking class where they each made a cake with their grandchildren (some elderly from the church congregation were invited as well as some students didn't have grandparents who could make it).

We actually had an extra two days off for Thanksgiving, which was really nice (Thurs, Fri off leading into the weekend). In celebration, Kay and I went out to Lotte World (apparently pronounced -'Lu-teh' but we pronounce it 'lotta' because it that's how we saw it first and it makes for a whole lotte jokes ;) (I suspect a good 70%+ of every consumer product you can buy in a grocery store is somehow from Lotte). Anyway, Lotte World is a big amusement/theme park (partly indoor, West Edmonton Mall style, and partly outdoor). We ended up going in the morning and getting day passes (we stayed pretty much the whole day). It was sensory overload... a lot to see, ride on, hear.. it was kind of like their version of a Disneyland in some ways (though not as big... it was still pretty fair sized).

We'll try to put some pictures up for the month and post more content (I have about 5 minutes until my next class so I need to sign off); I'm sure I've overlooked a lot of stuff to mention.

'til the next post!