The Ides of March

3.26.07

March is, quite clearly, almost over. The fabled 'yellow-dust' should be descending upon this little country soon and i am interested in seeing it. Apparantly at this time of year a tremendous amount of wind blows sand from the Mongolian desert across the body of water between Korea and China and creates a bit of an 'atmospheric' disturbance as far away as Japan. It gets hazy and a little more difficult to breath. I've already bought a little mask you see doctors wear in amercia, or people on news reports in other countries who fear SARS.

The girl in the photo above is a Korean coworker named Gina. About six of us went about town the other day taking photos of a rather brown-grassed, bare-tree'd Seoul. It will be a little nicer when we hit spring, i suppose. Other than that, I suppose i've got nuthin'

kc

All New Classes

3.6.07

The picture's a mess of goldfish. We visited the aquarium the other day and saw some sharks, too. It wasn't a huge place, but there were some otters there that i've got sub-par footage of fighting (or wrestling, perhaps, is a more accurate word). Tomorrow is all new classes for me (and the rest of the teachers). All the classes i started with are now gone. I still have a few of the students (which is either by good or bad luck), but it's an all new rest-of-my-existance here. Fun. Or not. We'll see. It's cold again. Been snowing the past two days. Saw that there's a cold spell in China too. Weather's funky, funky, isn't it?

kc