Dear Mrs Kang 8 August 1989
Thank you for your letter.
I was very pleased to hear from you
and have been thinking of korea often
This time last year I was working in the site office
and Jim Frazer-Smith announced he was starting a diet at 8 am,
on the 8th day of the sth month 1988 and he wanted to lose 8 kg!
I don't think he did!
I have got itchy feet to travel again.(Do you know this phrase
'itchy feet'? It means you want to travel, change jobs,
move house, etc)
We had a super holiday on the tandem.
We had 2weeks off work and began our holiday
by travelling to Birmingham on a very slow train!
British Rail would not take the bike on a fast train.
It took 5 hours to get there instead of 2 and half hours.
We cycled around the Cotswold Hills in Gloucestershire
(pronounced Glostersher)for a week,
and spent the following weekend with Joff's parents
and family and had a ride with some friends
who also have a tandem.
We caught another slow train home on Monday.
The remaining week was spent at home.
During our second week's holiday we spent a day at the
Great Yorkshire Show,an agricultural show
which takes place every year.
I have never seen so many large animals.
There were cows, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry;
horse and cart competitions,horse riding competitions;
lots of fish & chip caravans; craft stalls;
cars and tractors and even a grass ski slope.
We had a really good day out.
Another day was spent at Masham Steam Rally
(promounced Massam)
watching very old steam driven vehicles
- road rollers, lorries,
farm machines, miniature steam engines,
Merry -go-rounds,
and musical organs.
If(or when)we come back to Korea, will I be allowed to attend
any of the classes at the Women's Centre?
I would love to learn to paint and do flower arranging again,
and aerobics, and cooking.
Perhaps I could teach you to cook English/European foods
and you could teach me to cook Bulgogi and Kalbi?
I am writing to the Korean Embassy
to ask if they know of anywhere
in the north of England where I could learn to speak Korean!
I hope to take Grade 4 piano in November, that's the half
-way grade.
The highest examination is Grade 8.
I must also take theory exams.
I have to pass Grade 5 theory before I can take Grade 6, 7,
8 practical, but it is the only theory I need to do.
Have you been to Pagu Mountain this summer?
I expect the boys go there often to swim.
How do you start and finish a letter in Korean?
Instead of: Dear ....
Yours sincerely(or Best Wishes)
I really like writing Korean and wish I could go to classes
to learn to speak it.
Joff will be 30 years old on 4 September
and has got a Mountain Bike
for his 30th birthday and has been out every night.
pedalling across the hills and through the forests near our home.
He loves it.
It's a special bike with fat tyres and low gears for getting up
the hills. I am trying to organise a surprise for him,
and am arranging
to meet some friends at a local reataurant on the night of the 4th.
There will be about 10 of us, but it will be a surprise to Joff.
How is your golf?
Do you enjoy playing?
You said you had ordered your own golf club,
have you played with it yet?
Golf clubs ard what you hit the ball with, but we also call
the meeting house the Golf Club!
Clug means - a heavy stick; and an association or group.
English is a funny language??)
I don't want you see much of Mrs Son?
Please give her my regards.
Susan
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