Potholes In The Road

Eviction, sort of.

For reasons which I shall sensibly not discuss here, we had to leave out staffroom for a new one.

Here is the old room looking quite desolate as the desks have been moved downstairs to our new room. Farewell, mildly draughty but roomy retreat.

Behold downstairs. (Karen, you look quite smug an comfortable there) Mine is the desk with the pink basket and red blanket on it. Sure, it looks tidy and is a lot warmer but it is a great deal smaller.

The problem there is that there isn't room for everyone so a lot of the Korean teachers have been given desks in their homerooms. It's dreadfully unsociable and sometimes we hardly see some of the others. Boo.

On the bright side, it's a lot warmer which is pretty damn significant at this time of the year.

Ramen

Hakoya Ramen is a chain all over Seoul and the surrounding area (at the very least)

The Hobbit was preceded by Second Breakfast.

I had the Hakata style set meal. Tasty but they went heavy on the sesame.

That Most Hated Of Seasonal Duties

I thought I'd be safe enough from being roped into it this year but, nay.

We were provided with company cards and I had to write them for my homerooms.

I'd like to point out that we only get Christmas Day off from work so this card thing seems just cruel.

Sake

So, we went to a Japanese bar to try some Sake (Japanese rice wine). Unfortunately, it was not the famous variety that comes hot but a type that was best chilled.

Either way, colour me unimpressed. It's far, far too sweet for my liking.

I did, however, like the decanter. Fancy stuff there.

Thank You Gifts

These were distributed by Alex as thank yous and what-nots for attending her wedding.
I'll admit that I (and some others) had a fearful moment where we weren't sure if it was a yet un-encountered variety of rice cake.

It's a soap. Thank you very much indeed. :)