Monday, August 27, 2012

Typhoon Bolaven


Kind of stressing about this typhoon. Supposed to be feeling the effects from this evening until tomorrow evening.

This is from about 12 hours ago. It has since passed Okinawa and is going to skirt the West Coast of the Korean Peninsula. Hooray.

Supposed to be most severe in the morning tomorrow as the center is projected to pass a predicted 100 km west of Seoul.

Have to say I'm glad to not be living in Icheon now.

And to have extensive hurricane experience in order to handle this shit at least sort of calmly.
This is a pretty big storm we've got comin' our way folks... 

Will hopefully have internet throughout. If I can, I'll post a vlog sometime tomorrow!

Monday, August 20, 2012

Gardening... sort of

When I was in elementary school I have fond memories of setting up a garden with my father and picking green peppers, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries and the like. Granted, I mostly supervised while my father did the vast majority of the work, even though I swore I would pick weeds, water, plant and harvest everything myself because "please please please daddy! All I want in this whole wide world is a garden!"I pretty much just stuck to the harvesting. That's the fun part anyways.

Well, at my school's summer camp, I was teaching an English science class and we learned about plants and seeds and such. All the students got little bean plants to grow at home, and we did some activities comparing seeds to full grown plants. As a result I ended up with about six packs of unused seeds, some planting stuff and one leftover bean plant.

So what did I do? Why naturally I decided I'd get my urban gardening on. I also managed to discover some old planters just sitting under the stairs out on the balcony next to my place. I used one and have planted up some spinach which is just starting to sprout. I've also still got my bean plant, and am working on some four o'clocks (a big decorative trumpet flower that blooms PINK!)

We'll see how this all goes, since it's almost fall. I should have done this earlier I supposed, but I haven't.

Additionally, my boyfriend Jong Hoon is growing watermelon from seeds he spit out from one of the many watermelons his parents bought him and his brother this summer.

In other news, I have internet at my house, and the fall semester officially started today...

I've also decided to try to resume blogging and to make this blog a personal blog about Korea/my life and keep my tumblr to kpop related things.