Ladies Morning Tea

Today I met Sarah in the morning and we caught a taxi to our neighbouring town Okpo for the ladies morning tea. We were the first ones to arrive at the Geoje Foreigner Residents Association (GFRA) and after about ten minutes we started to think maybe there weren’t any other ladies coming. We were happily proven wrong though as woman after woman started filing in, there were close to 30 of us in the end. It was great! I would’ve hated to know what the noise level was on the decibel meter though – imagine 30 women chattering away J I think our partners/husbands would’ve been in heaven that night as we all would have got our words out that day (little fact: women on average say 10,000 words per day where as men say on average 2,000 ref: Allan and Barbara Pease books).  

 We also went to see four more apartments today and had two of Adrian’s colleagues join us. We all agreed none of them suited. I know I’m starting to sound fussy but if we’ll be living in the apartment for the next three years and spending a lot of time in it then I want to make sure it has everything we want, ie close to Adrian’s work and no crazy wallpaper. You might think that’s funny but I’d say staring at bright red flowers all over your walls might get a bit much after a while!

South Korea really is beautiful though, there are so many hills and all of them are covered in trees. You never see a single house built on the side of the mountains, everything is in the valley, which is very different from Australia where houses with views are sought after. It’s actually quite relaxing knowing that no matter where you are you can look around and see tree covered mountains. The people seem a lot friendlier now as well and they giggle at the way Adrian and I try to pronounce Korean words.  I think they appreciate that we’re trying though!

Off to bed now for me. Write soon xx