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Ahhh spring. A time when the trees in Korea seem to be an endless green. The best thing is the rains, because it’s so wet the mosquitoes die quickly and in abundance. The downside is all the spiders grow fat feasting on their dead corpses. The hallway on my apartment’s floor is strung with hundreds of webs each morning. Every time I walk through one I squeal like a girl. I’m not entirely sure what my neighbours think but hey that’s the downside of living in such close proximity - surely.
I mean do I complain when they are outside my door at three o’clock in the morning nattering on? Well no because a) I’m still awake and b) I don’t know how to complain in Korean as it is. What I do object to is the Lady at 203 letting her little girl tricycle up and down the corridor at 7 in the morning making all manner of noises, I don’t care if everyone else on the floor, in the city, or in Korea has already left home and gone to work I AM STILL ASLEEP! But not for long.
Monday week (The 25th - circled in big red pen on the calendar) sees summer classes begin - that is to say screaming kids on holiday who don’t want to be at the English language school their parents are forcing them to attend - at 9 o’clock in the god damn morning. I dunno…there are some definite discipline issues in most of my classes at the moment - it is what Bruce Owen would term the silly season - end of term no real school only activities etc, but I’m having a hell of a time keeping the noise down, keeping the kids sitting in their seats blah blah blah. Still no blow back from The Boss’ - so far so good.
As i write I am speeding along at 300km/h in the KTX - Korea’s marvelous bullet train, en route to Seoul where tomorrow I will pick Mum and Mark up at the airport. (That is if they weren’t blown up while in London.) Now how’s this for an indictment on the People of Korea? My fabulous friend Ken is taking Mum, Mark and ME out to dinner while in Seoul on Saturday night. It is something of a generalisation but Ken is living proof that Korean people are pretty nice folks who have a pretty big interest in making sure everyone is happy. Makes you feel really sorry for Korea under Japanese occupation in the 20s and 30s and during the war - Japan is a real dick!
The Korean Navy launched a new ship today and called after Dokdo - the easternmost islets of Korean Territory. Basically two little uninhabitable rocks with no use to anyone that Japan claims as it’s own. Now usually I wouldn’t involve myself in international territory disputes, but I really think Japan is full of shit. The Japanese call the Islands ‘takashima’ - laterally, Island of bamboo. IT’S TWO DESOLATE ROCKS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EAST SEA. THE NEAREST BAMBOO IS 1000 MILES AWAY!!!!!! Idiots!
So with any luck I will get to post this sometime tonight, but it may well be after the weekend. In that case it will be accompanied by numerous photo’s etc of the long awaited reunion of Mother and son.
-Out.
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