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Noisy Morning

Noisy Morning

The past 2 morning have been so noisy! We go to bed really late so we need that sleep in the morning but sometimes it’s so interrupted. Announcements in the village are done over loudspeakers and it drives me crazy. In the drama ‘Modern Farmer’ they get the village announcements on their phones and someone said “Oh no one uses the loudspeakers anymore in the countryside!” No… they still do it here! There were several announcements yesterday in the morning and also this morning. Not only the announcements this morning but a big fertilizer truck came with bags of fertilizer that villagers needed to come collect. Because our house is near the village community centre and our window faces it, our sleep was severely interrupted by hours of a thudding sound of fertilizer being unloaded.

We only had a few hours sleep and then had 2 TV producers/writers come from Seoul to meet with us because they want to film us next week. I didn’t expect to be filmed today, but they did a bit and I had to draw this comic while being filmed. It’s hard to draw when people are watching, so sorry this comic isn’t that good today (and it’s late).

Anyway, hoping to get more sleep tonight!

WHICH HOGWARTS HOUSE?

Mr Gwon is finally sorted into a Hogwarts house. Watch the video below to see which one.

We all love Harry Potter in my family. I really love fantasy novels (as does my father and one of my brothers), but Harry Potter was what got our whole family obsessed. Well, except my mother who watched the movies but didn’t read the books I think. On the way to the cinema to see one of the last movies as a family, my mother had asked, “Okay, what do I need to know?” to which my smartarse sister replied, “Well you see, Harry… he is a wizard…” haha.

We read the books over the years, waiting for the next one to come out. They fueled many animated discussions in our family and sometimes fights, especially when a new book had just been released and we only had 1 copy and we got sneaky in our ways to steal the book from each other. There were definitely times where someone was reading at a table, and got up to get a cup of tea, and came back to find the book vanished.

So Harry Potter is not only a great series, but is something that holds many memories for me. Mr Gwon had just casually watched the movies and is not as invested in the Harry Potter world as I am. So it was time for him to be sorted. Now I’m not sure it was such a good idea…

 

Cafe Work and Playing Archaeologists

You may have noticed there have been less vlogs up lately. That has been because I’ve been sick and there really hasn’t been much to vlog about! It’s been cold and we’ve just been inside doing the same things. When it’s warmer I can go ride my bike or go for a walk and talk to the camera, but haven’t been able to do that lately. I am going to put some different types of videos up on the Nicholalala YouTube channel. For example, some people have wanted me to talk about different books I’ve read and stuff like that. So that channel is likely to evolve into more than just a vlogging channel. You may have noticed that both the vlogging channel and new webtoon series is called Nicholalala. That’s on purpose to create a name and brand that is different to our My Korean Husband brand so we can expand more and do stuff that doesn’t always fit under the MKH banner.

In the latest vlog we show you some buildings that were once a Confucian school over in a neighbouring village. It was cool to look through pottery pieces but I wish I knew more to identify them. Something I find frustrating in Korea, to do with heritage stuff, is that often the signs will give a really old date for a building but it was actually rebuilt recently so some buildings may not be that old at all. I find in Australia they are more explicit about what bit is old and what bit is rebuilt than in Korea and I feel like the laws to do with heritage are stricter in Australia. In Korea it can be disappointing to read a sign saying something is 500 years old and then in the footnote it’s like “rebuilt in 1970”. Well then it’s not old at all! When I go to a heritage site I want to touch the stone and wood touched by people centuries ago and know that I’m looking at what they looked at. Unfortunately Korea lost a lot of old buildings during the Japanese occupation. I think I’ve heard that actual history professors in Korea complain about the way heritage buildings are approached by the government in Korea, but not sure. Let me know if you know more about this.

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