December 14, 2009

• Warm Oozies

  Dear Reader:

  

  Getting in the Christmas Spirit:

     My wife is now finished with another trimester of her schooling.  She is doing an ESL master's degree at Shenandoah University in Virginia.  I love the concept of her studying.  I think scholarly activity a great complement to her personality.   It surely does take up all of her time, save the thirty minutes she goes biking each night, rain or no.  It is good for my wife to be busy, and scholarship seems to suit her best.  

  

     I just found a good program for her to do some PhD work in ESL.  I did not realize they had such programs, but now there are a few.  However, I suspect she might like linguistics very much, too.  We'll have to look into that later.  Right now, she has enough on her plate, what with four more courses to go.  At her rate of one per trimester, that should take fifteen months so things are covered for now. 

  

      I took a walk last night with a couple of Kiwi friends of mine, Mark and Sandra. We took my children to see the Christmas decorations of Time World, a large ritzy department store near my home.  There was no Christmas tree, but they had some lights up on the bushes outside.  We went into a bakery called "Paris Baguette."  

  

  A Room To One's Own:

       On the way home, we stopped in a small pet store and My Flagship bought five bucks worth of jelly for his bugs.  My Dandelion told me she wants to have a fish bowl in her room in the U.S. of A.  They talk more of America now, as our date of exodus is fast approaching.  I have promised them each one room, something I think important for proper adolescent development.  First, though, I will merely live in seminary housing in a small 1700 square foot place with four bedrooms, a study and a living room. 

  Moving: Less is More    

       I would like to move more furniture than my wife, thinking we will have to round up some stuff anyway, once we move there.  The moving service charges only for bulk, not weight.  Hence, it would seem to behoove me to ship not the glass enclosed fancy bookshelves, but rather to send the sturdy, solid wood shelves with books wrapped in tight plastic bag packages and stored inside the shelves, all laying flat on the container on the ship.  Same thing for my large aquarium with file boxes beneath; just fill it up with packages of books. 

     Wifey would rather take only our books, DVD's and clothes.  Food, we'll pick up in the U.S.  She does not realize that in the U.S. people are more thrifty than here, and we could scarcely expect to live off "the community teat" with such good pickin's at the trash sites as we have been so fortunate to do here.

     A scavenger indeed serves a community well.  I feel fortunate to be allied with a spouse who has no truck with scavenging.  Pretense is not one of her fortes. 

  Kap Cheon Riverside Bike Paths:

      My Clever Lad, My Flagship and I took a bike ride yesterday afternoon, down by the riverside.  The city government has invested fairly much of late in the further development of bike paths.  I will try to find a few photos to upload and include here to that end.  They are positively vivid and scintillating in the freshness of summer what with the flowers bedecking the grassy edges of the path.  It is enough to make you warmly ooze inside with feelings of love for all the human race and beyond.   

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