More Packing and Selling

We had a busy week this past week as Eric continued to work his long days, adding yet another job (proofreading and editing professional English papers) to his long list of jobs, and I spent my afternoons, packing and mailing boxes and selling some things on Craigslist.  We were able to get two boxes in the mail this week going surface mail which will take about 60 days to get home, but is about 3 times cheaper than airmail.  I sold a few more of our small gadgets this week and today we were so happy to have someone come and agree to buy our refrigerator!  We still have the small fridge that came with our apartment so today we plugged that one in for the first time in almost a year hoping it would still work (it did) and moved everything from one fridge to the other.  We got the big one defrosted and cleaned up and it is scheduled to be moved out tomorrow evening.  We are very happy about that because it was the one big thing we knew we had to get rid of and Eric has been very adamant since the day he and a friend carried it up to the fifth floor that he would NOT be moving it back down from the fifth floor when we moved out!  After I take one more box to the post office this week we won't really have any more packing or cleaning out to do until right before we leave.  We will keep adding things to Craigslist and having our friends take away some other stuff not worth selling but other than that things on the moving end will start to slow down a lot.

This Thursday is the first day of the three day Lunar New Year holiday so we both only have to work three days this week and then get a four day weekend.  The Lunar New Year (Seollal in Korean) is one of the two biggest holidays in Korea (the other being Chuseok or Korean Thanksgiving).  Just like with Chuseok, everyone travels to their home town, the country is full of heavy traffic jams and Seoul is like a ghost town.  Someone told me that usually it takes them about three hours to get to their parent's hometown near the southern part of Korea, but this week when they travel there it will take about ten hours.  That's how many important the holiday is!  We don't have much planned other than having some friends over to hang out and maybe play some poker and watch movies.  We're not counting the days until we leave but every time Saturday comes around we know how many weeks we have left here and it's not many so we must enjoy every day we can!