It's official...winter has arrived...

Well, I woke up this morning, turned over and promptly felt grumpy. Not just because it was a morning, and a Monday morning at that. I seemed to feel something in the air! After not sleeping very well and then having to wrap myself in my duvet when I woke up, I just knew something was a miss. What was it you ask...well my friends I just experienced my first day of winter. And it's not even winter yet! It's only going to get colder :( Denice came over so we could get the bus to Yeongdeok for lunch, and she warned me to put on something warm - now generally this means wear a jumper or a scarf, not really wear your ski jacket and gloves and maybe a hat that covers your ears because it's link a wind tunnel out there. I froze! Actually froze. Even my school kids were cold. They were cowering round the space heater in the Hogwan doing their homework. How cute! Poor things. And then most of them sat in their little puffer jackets during class! Seriously, it's cold! And as I said, it's only going to get colder.

On a more positive note, this means that the possibility of going skiing is increasing, and with a ski resort only about 2 hours away from Yeongdeok I can ski on weekends! Oooh, so excited by that prospect :) And I also get to feel fine about sitting in my little cosy house watching tv and reading interesting yet irrelevant things on line and just reading in general. Oh, if only I had a log fire burning away in the corner :P

Well, that's all for the moment, posts to come include information about the hogwan, the kids, the little town, bus rides, friends, maybe Costco, TOPIK and things I miss from the West! It's 3 been 3 weeks now without so many things and people, find out what I'm missing and what I'm loving being without :)

Have a good Monday all x