Still Looking Out the Window

Looking out the window still works like a charm for calming down a fussy baby, only now she can sit in her Bumbo and look out.

Looking Out the Window

For some reason, Rory loves looking out the bedroom window, although there's nothing to see but leaves and sky, and those are probably a big blur. Maybe she just likes the sunlight...

Very Belated Apartment Tour

Looking through our photos, I realized there are a lot of things even from the last month that I didn't get around to posting. Like pictures of our apartment, which not only did I mean to post in December, but from the time when we first got to Korea. So here's where we lived for the past year.


This was our apartment building. It's the building just behind the first glowing sign. I took a picture in the daytime months ago, but now I can't find it, so I took this on the night before we left. This type of apartment is called a villa, and the apartments aren't as big as the ones you'll find in the giant Lego-style buildings, but it's nice to live in the middle of all the stores and restaurants and everything.



The kitchen. Behind the refrigerator are the cabinets, sink, and gas range (but no oven!). We almost never used the table because the glass got dirty so often, and the chairs weren't very comfortable, but they added a cozy touch anyway.



The bedroom. I took this picture when we were packing, so it doesn't really give a very good feel for the room, but oh well. There's a big armoire you can just see to the right, and there used to be shelves underneath the window.



We were lucky enough to have a two-bedroom apartment. In Korea, the school always pays for the apartment, and usually they already have it rented since the previous teacher(s) was/were living there. We'd heard horror stories about the rat holes people have had to live in, so at least the apartment was one good thing the school did for us.




And now for the piece de resistance: the bathroom. Yes, that's a showerhead next to the mirror. The entire bathroom is basically a glorified shower stall. There's a drain under the sink, and you just take a shower in the middle of the bathroom! This means you have to wear special shower slippers when you go into the bathroom because the floor is wet half the time. This type of bathroom is really common in Korea.

You'd think all that water would help keep the bathroom clean, but mostly it just breeds mildew. We actually stripped out and replaced all the caulk around the sink because it was black. After that, the bathroom wasn't too bad, in spite of being small and wet 60% of the time.

And that's where we lived in Korea.

What Happened Next

Alas, looking out the window only pacifies Aurora for so long!