Visa Run, Puppies and Phones

I haven't written for a long time as not much exciting has happened in the last month. A few somewhat notable events have taken place, maybe even enough to write a few sentences about. My workload has slowly been going down from 29 teaching hours to 24 but in my contract as long as I don't work over 30 my pay must stay the same. I have some visa problems so I have to make a "visa run" to Japan for 2 days. I have to visit a Korean consulate in Japan to renew my visa and then return to Korea. This will likely happen next week.

My wife and I went to Naejangsan Mountain to see the beautiful fall leaves a couple weeks ago. It was one of my favorite experiences the first time I was in Korea so I really wanted to go again. It was beautiful but a little too foggy to get a good view of the valley.

We've started our Christmas shopping, hoping to get everything sent off in time for Christmas. While we were shopping we looked in a few pet stores as we've been talking a lot about getting a cat. Unfortunately cats are not very popular as pets in Korea so we've been having difficulty finding one. While shopping however we saw the cutest Siberian Husky puppy and almost took him home...well we still might. She was so quiet compared to the rest of the puppies in the shop and had one ear that was bent forward. Until we saw her, we were only interested in getting a cat but now our wills are wavering. We saw that the local grocery store only carries dog food so getting cat supplies might be more of a hassle than we had hoped. I think if it's not too much difficulty taking a dog back to Canada, then we just might have a puppy soon.

My wife's grandfather is not doing very well so the family is visiting him now and he will be going to Seoul next week. My wife will be visiting him tomorrow.

After paying for 2 cell phones the past couple months, we've decided to disconnect our cell phones after we get an apartment phone set up. We just bought a new phone today so we're hoping to get it in this week. Finding a regular phone is a lot more difficult than I thought. From our apartment I can think of almost 10 cell phone stores within a 10 minute walk but only one store with regular phones.