Amazing Agi

The time has come to tell a tale of exciting adventures in store for me and my partner in the Amazing Lace. My partner's name is Agi, short for diagonals, which is the pattern she is based on. I entered this race on the encouragement of my knitting boyfriend, Sean. (Yes, my husband knows I have a knitting boyfriend.) Anyway, I came to discover Agi because I needed a simple yet sophisticated pattern for a scarf present. I am a beginner at lace and was unsuccessful in my attempts until I met kind, patient, Agi.





Here is a close up of her. And one of me. We don't really look a like at all. But we are enjoying our time here in Korea.


That is right, we are currently half way around the world from our family. My husband is currently stationed over here. He's in the Army.



I am going to show you what Agi and I have done together so far in Korea. Here is a picture of us in a park.


There are some Korean Kimchee pots on the left. Kimchee is a very spicy combination of cabbage, hot pepper, garlic, and ginger. It is left to ferment... Nowadays mostly in refrigerators, but it used to place in pots like these for the winter.







Agi is attempting to scare you into thinking she may be eaten, but back in the day these totem poles were used to show boundaries of towns. Usually, they were a way to alert people of a friendly town to stay at.













Anyway - so what do we do over here in Korea? Well this weekend we mostly sat in a bus stuck in traffic. We went to Seoul for a job fair, but most of the day was spent traveling. Seoul traffic is pretty awful on the weekend.


Other than getting out of Donduchoen to head to the big city (we're about 2 hours north of Seoul, right on the DMZ). We volunteer at the American Red Cross when we don't work at the ACAP office.


Here's Agi volunteering today.













And when we have time we like to kick back and read other knitting blogs and dream of creating new things....




But the best part of Amazing Lace is that we have a lot of travels coming up soon, because we are coming back to the States and hitting up a lot of places on the way. It's almost like the amazing race, except, well, we have to buy some plane tickets to make sure we get back in time for starting our jobs (which I hope we'll have by then).




See, my husband and I got married in a short amount of time so that we could be married before he left the States back in 2004. We had a small wedding with only our parents and his sister in attendance. We have never met each other's families. So this trip will be our chance to do so! I am excited to meet his side of the family, but I am afraid I haven't learned much Chinese to talk to his Grandmother.




So anyway, this is the story of me and my partner, Agi, in the Amazing Lace.