December 2009
14 posts
It snowed today. Nick has a terrible fever and has been sleeping for the past twenty hours, only to be waken up periodically to drink something fizzy or to eat some porridge.
The weekend is ending too quickly and I don’t want to go to work tomorrow.
This is my favorite song of right now. I might...
“Your eyes have to do some raining if you’re ever going to grow.”
Earlier today I got a call from Arirang TV saying my audition was successful and I now have a second job as an announcer for the program Showbiz Extra! I hope now with this added income, I’ll be able to save up for trips to other parts of Asia and maybe even down under. It’s just one of the many reasons I moved out here in the first place. There are just so many places I have to see!
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The past few days have been overly hectic. For one of my reporting assignments, I was sent out to the Seoul Design Festival 2009 which was totally fun. There were cows there! Not real cows, mind you, but there were fifty of them all painted up and now I realize what’s missing in my life: a life-size cow of my very own to decorate and sit on while I have dinner and surf the internets and...
In our spare time, Nick and I have been playing a ton of Super Nintendo games. Over the summer we beat Mario RPG and just last week we finished Yoshi’s Island.
Our game of the moment is Zelda: A Link to the Past, but today we will Turtles in Time, my favorite game from elementary school, because I had a bad day.
We will be ordering a pizza as well, as that is the only...
My name is Risse. I am a twenty-three year old girl from Seattle living in Seoul, Korea.
Less than a year after I graduated from university, I decided I needed a change of scenery. In March of 2009, I packed two suitcases and caught an eleven hour flight out to my new homeland. Over here, every day is a new adventure.
Pictured above is my sweetheart, Nick. We are practically grafted at...