Ramblings

The weather is so beautiful these days that I have taken to walking in the countryside near here a lot. The small and windy road gradually becomes more and more isolated as it moves farther from the city. All along are the small farm plots of diverse farmers. Some appear more serious than others. I think that some of them are just hobbyists with high power jobs in the city who like the countryside.

Others, elderly and hunched must be doing what they do. Today I got to an isolated village where they were building a temple or something. The village was quite charming to my tourist eyes. They appeared to be bee keepers as a day job, and the bees were certainly busy. An old lady even said hello, or annyong haseyo, which was nice. In the city people usually don't say hello, except for little kids yelling "hello" to amuse their friends. It seems as though there was an air raid drill while I was in the country, as I could hear the whining siren echoing through the valleys. Then the airforce became very active and flew around busily for the rest of the evening, really the only disturbance out in the shielded countryside.

I have been working on my visa, Mr. Kim promises to send me to Japan either next week or the monday after. Yesterday I had lunch with Gene Kim, my recruiter and he told me that Wonderland changed names in order to attract more older kids. We had sushi, of all sorts of kinds. It was the first time I've really enjoyed sushi.