Tag: my korean husband (Page 77 of 128)

Dol Celebrations

2014/05/19 / Nic / 29 Comments

(Woolies is Woolworths, a major Australian supermarket).

Han and Sophie’s daughter Alice had her first birthday celebrations (돌) on the weekend. It’s a very big thing in Korea! They are a lot of fun but my husband realised how much work they are. They are more like a wedding than actual modern Korean weddings are (way more fun as well).

He was only joking about not doing them for our children, of course we have to. Sophie also pointed out that once we have a baby he is going to think his child is the best in the world and do everything for them! First birthdays are huge events but they are also well catered for. You book the package deal you want and it’s held at a special hall with a buffet and an MC and everything is provided.

I’m sure once we have a baby he is going to think we need to do much more than just buy a supermarket cake!

Here is a photo from the celebrations.

Gross Thing

2014/05/16 / Nic / 21 Comments

I have a fascination with morbid stuff and weird gross stuff in nature is always cool. Even if I do gross myself out by looking at that stuff. Mr Gwon always wants to just avoid looking at it altogether. More than once I’ve tried to force him to look at something cool/gross. He doesn’t give in to peer pressure!

If you are curious about that photo you can go google it 🙂

Hiding

2014/05/15 / Nic / 19 Comments

Sometimes I come downstairs and find myself part of a game of hide and seek without realising it. Actually my husband just hears me coming down the stairs and tries to hide for fun but the severe lack of furniture hinders that.

That’s not to say that he is bad at hide and seek though, he is pretty awesome at it. Last Christmas when we were at the holiday house he hid on the balcony and then when people checked the balcony he hung off it just holding onto the ledge with his hands, dangling there until the seeker went back inside.

Why I’m Tired

2014/05/14 / Nic / 22 Comments

And that’s why there isn’t a proper comic. I have to work on other stuff today and because I slept later than usual I didn’t have time to make a comic.

It is always a shock to hear loud messages blasted all through the village, especially at 5am. I can’t imagine that happening in Australia because I think Australia has much stricter noise rules.

Seriously…. 5am. I’m assuming the person went and picked up their delivery of fish finally.

I did hear my mother-in-law wake up at that time and didn’t seem worried so I assumed everything was fine and it wasn’t a message saying we were all going to die.

Poking

2014/05/13 / Nic / 35 Comments

Okay, if you have a Korean partner you have probably experienced this. It’s a silly thing that Koreans start doing as children and something that many adults continue to do, much to the annoyance of others. The hands are placed in a certain way… and the butt is the target. There is a reason that one of the first things I learnt how to say in Korean was “똥꼬 안돼!”

Uncountable

2014/05/12 / Nic / 27 Comments

Mr Gwon is having some trouble with the word ‘tadpoles’ again. (Which he thought were called “typos”).

English is really hard and I can see why he thinks this many tadpoles are uncountable. What do you think about his logic? And what about words like “sheep”? If you are learning English do words like that confuse you?