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Sunday, August 19, 2007
103) An Accident
I walked into one of the pre-school rooms and it had the smell of a real bad fart or… I feared… an accident in the pants. As it turns out, it was the latter. About two minutes later a little boy hurries to the door holding the back of his pants looking at me desperate, asking in Korean if he could go to the bathroom. “Don’t ask! Just go!... Run!” That is what I was thinking, but I just opened the door and pretended like nothing was wrong. He came back 10 minutes later, and just sat down and finished his work. These kids are so young everyone had already forgotten about it when he came back, perhaps even him.
I had another surprise that day when I walked out of one of my classes to see the youngest kids at this school (all under 24 months) sitting outside the bathroom naked. Apparently it was bath time… or something went horribly wrong in that class. All of the kids here are under five I think, and they all use a co-ed bathroom, so it probably wasn’t a strange site to anyone else but me.
This weekend was pretty nice, but very sleep deprived. I went out to Hongdae on Friday night. On the third Friday of every month they have something called “Sound Day” where a bunch of live music clubs have concerts all night long. You pay 15,000 won and can get into any of them all night. A lot of great bands play on this night, so you can see some really great live music- better than just a normal weekend. The only problem is the clubs are packed!
I went from Sound Day to work with no sleep, but it wasn’t so bad, as I got to take a two-hour nap during the day. I thought I might finish early, which was not the case, but I went to visit one of my friends at his club in Hongdae nonetheless. I only planned on stopping by to say “hi”, but we got talking, then went out to eat, and then met up with some other friends and ended up staying out all night.
Today was the laziest day I have had in a while. I slept till around 6 pm, and then just bummed around and did some reading I have been wanting to do for a long time.
*About the pictures with the smoke: Last week I saw this smoke from out my window, and immediately took out my camera and got some shots. I thought I was witnessing a big fire or something- but I found it strange there were no sirens or anything. Then I remembered about this time last year- I saw a truck driving down the street spewing out huge amounts of smoke. I remember thinking “wow, they really need to do vehicle tests here”. But later I found out it was intentional. I am still not sure why they do these “smokings” but it is strange, and I cannot imagine it is healthy to be breathing.
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the smoke from those trucks is for the mosquitoes... they come by here all the time, quite a shock the first time you see one of them go by... and thanks for calling me to let me know about "sound day"... that's cool man, when you get a chance, and you aren't too self absorbed, clue me in the details, that would involve us spending some quality fun time together... heaven forbid, you know? so long as it doesn't confront with your mid day naps and early evening haircuts... :D
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