Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Teachin' the Vet

Here is my vet's office (also my friendly neighbourhood petshop!).... thought I'd give you the mini-tour since I've been there so often in the past month!!

Tons of good brands of food to choose from, window seats for people and dogs, and a little playpen for daycare dogs...

Toys, beds, carry bags, and (most importantly) canned chicken... the surgery room is in the back there, along with xray machines and all that other junk that vets need...

Play area for kitty (who is usually out during the day since the big Tom loves dogs) and lots of space for puppies to run around during office hours 9-9 (one of my favorite things about this vet)!



Maggie has had a full checkup and declared entirely healthy, she's been fixed, and today she had her stitches out (yay!). She was a trooper at the vet's, though she's been a little down since our visit... touchy puppy. Murphy goes in for his second shots on Thursday, same time Maggie goes in for a bath and hairdo (but no cut!!). Conveniently I'll be away this weekend, so they'll hang out at the vet's "puppy hotel" until I get back (mommy has a play-date with other grown-ups, yay!).

Tonight after my Korean class I finally started meeting with my vet to teach him English once a week. He asked (though one of my Korean friends) awhile ago, and we're just getting aroud to it now. I've stopped in to see them (and spent much of my pay in their little shop!) every time I have a Korean class (it's in the same building), but he hasn't been ready to officially study. Mostly tonight we just chatted, I kinda needed to figure out what level he's at (he usually defers to his assistant to translate when I'm in the shop so I thought he didn't know much). Turns out that his vocabulary is actually pretty decent so it was an easy start.

He's a bit slow to talk as he's finding the words, many Korean "uuhhhhhhhhhhhhh" delays, but no trouble following what he was saying (plus there's the handy online dictionary that translates if we can't figure it out). All in all, it was actually kinda fun to have a conversation with an adult, lol... didn't really notice that I'm starting to miss those!   :)

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My to-do List (May it Continue to Grow!)

Take a 'real' Korean class (check!)

Spend a weekend in the country (check!)

Try some kind of art class (maybe painting?)

Take the ferry to a farming island and hang out for a weekend minbak-style in the summer

Check out some kind of art exhibit (check!)

Go to Everland and see the animal safari

Go to Caribbean Bay in the summer

Take a martial art for 6 months consecutively

Cliff dive over near ChiriSan, if I can find the spot

Practice yoga for 3 months (in a class maybe?) (check!)

Take a digital photography course

Spend my weekends doing stuff (check!)

Make Korean friends (check!)

Visit JeJu Island

Do the Vagina Monologues again

Go to the fun concerts that visit (check!)

Work as a counselor in one of the schools

Reconnect with old friends (check!)

Join a hiking/touring group and do stuff (check!)

Let go of my obsessiong w/converting KRW to CAD (check!)

Do a 5km run just for the fun of it

See the Broadway shows that visit

Climb a mountain (check!)

Go to the mud festival in July (check!)

Keep in touch regularly with friends and family back at home

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