New Land for Living

Well, we have moved! We now live on a wee island south of Korea called Jeju, which you might recall from such events as our summer vacation last year.

We have a car, and the tiniest apartment known to man, which we will be moving out of and hopefully closer to the beach you see above at the end of March.

If you look close in the first two photos you can see some divers, these are women, called Haen-yo in Korean. They are pretty old, you often see the hunched over shucking their days catch. Back in the day only men were charged tax, so the women were sent out to dive for food. They continue to do so, though the tradition is dying out, which is a shame. It's a cool thing to see, they normally dive in pairs or groups and when they surface they whistle to each other. Anyway, it's cool.

The beach below is about a half hour drive from our house, and as you can see it's covered in plastic right now. Pretty freaking odd. But it was really windy so I guess it was nice not to have the stinging sand in your face.

Can't wait for the weather to warm up so we can go swimming! Though it is definitely warmer here then on the main land!

Ma boys! Nina and Vince's last night in Daegu was certainly a doozy to remember (or not in most cases).

A lot of wrestling on the streets, some stolen vodka and horrible horrible warm champagne concluded Nina and Vince's Korean league. It was sad to say goodbye, but soon enough we'll be with them again to celebrate the momentousness that is them.

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Views from the ferry to Seoul.

The sunset was so amazing. The views coming into Seoul were futuristic. I felt like I was on another planet. 

Aside from the horrible snoring Korean in our dorm (which resulted in us seeing amazing meteors, getting our own room and me having the most epic dream ever) the trip was spectacular. 

Our plans are up in the air for next year. Home? Turkey? Japan? Jeju island? A mix of all of the above? Live is hard, exciting things are happening back home, which it would be nice to be involved in. But are we ready? Going home seems serious, seems like, getting a good job and looking into buying some land. Exciting, but are we ready? Is it financial viable? Should we stay where we have good paying work?

Fuck. Life.

These photos display the general murky feeling of the whole film well. But, there's a certain appeal to it here. I particularly like the smudge over Jacob's crotch. Perfect!

This is in Pohang, are two giant hands, and when we went there was some sort of octopus festival on. We didn't eat any, the whole thing distresses me a little, but we did have a coconut. Which actually wasn't that good.

That top photo, taken by Vince, is maybe the best photo ever. What timing! The popping of a cork has never been captured so well.

We celebrated my birth on the beach eating cake and drinking cheap champagne. Pretty fantastic. And with the best people of course. 

I'm not so hot on this whole film of black and white. They came out quite murky. Was it the film? Or the processing? One can never say...or can they? Either way, Jacob liked them, so I decided to share.

Last of the photo's from LAST YEAR (opps).

From in Georgia. Outside that church the was the tiniest of puppies. He looked so sad. We tried to give him some bread but I suspect he had worms and his tummy wasn't happy, he looked pretty bloated. He needed some loving. There were so many stray cats and dogs, most of them quite mangy, but I couldn't not pat them. Jacob took to carrying around antibacterial sanitizer to save me from any weird germs they might have.

Such a strange and beautiful place.

(sorry these scanned a bit dark, you can see even the white border is grey. Oh well.)

Bush walking. Leaving Parties. Many cups of tea. Sewing. Sewing. Sewing. And making friends with our neighbor.

Weekend antics.

Templehof Airport, Berlin.

When the west was walled this was the only possible way in, unless you were some sort of official. But this is how most of the supplies got in and things. Obviously closed now, it's just as massive space where people go to fly kites and chill out. Literally. It was freezing there.

Photos By the admirable Jacob Sparrow.

The first sign of snow and this is what happens.

Chubby, you smoking fool of a snowman, you'll be in our hearts forever.

Gori has a sweet fortress overlooking it, whilst frolicking about it one afternoon Jacob found this weird little hut. It was full of crosses and pictures of Saints. It was relatively creepy and cool.

And then Jacob got eaten by a Vampire. 

He does look scared though doesn't he.

Tbilisi Georgia. You crazy town. With your amazing soviet buildings, some crumbling, some standing in all their heavy glory, your wide streets and your small cobbled street, your old parks and your weird new parks.

You offered me cheap beers, dalmatians that try to steal my camera, sulphur baths in which i was rubbed down, naked, by an old Georgian man; views of forests, churches, monuments, Mother Georgias tight ass and bear skins; not to mention that my boyfriend frequents your streets often.

Georgia was everything I could never have imagined. 

p.s. jacob took most of the photos as he's the digimon of the family.

I wanted to share some of Jacob's drawings. So over time I will give you a taste of his things (again this is all dependent  on finding a scanner to scan any drawings he does). These are drawings from his final project at Uni, so they're from last year but dang it they're freaking awesome. He chose to illustrate Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. These are mostly from Chapter two. Anyway. Enjoy Ya'll.