Monsoon

SOTW

Something to listen to while you read.

"Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of courage. Insane, embarrassing courage."

It is almost June, and the monsoon season is starting. Just yesterday in the news, I saw that the streets in Seoul were under a couple feet of water. It's strange to see that on TV when I was just walking down those streets a few days ago. It's not flooding where I am yet, but we've gotten quite a bit of rain.

This week in humorous stories:
Occasionally in class, you will have a couple students who will feel it is their obligation to test your knowledge of Korean, just to see what they can get away with in class. One day in class, one of my students says,
"Teacher! You are very babo. That means very handsome."
Now, thankfully another teacher at the school here told me to watch out for this word, because students will try to call you this and tell you it means something different. The actual definition of babo is 'foolish or stupid'.
So, I look at him and say,
"Oh really?"
Then I walk over to the board and write babo in Hangul (the Korean written language). I look back at him and say,
"You mean this word?"
Now he looks very sheepish.
"I know what this word means, and it does not mean handsome."
Now all the students are laughing and so surprised that I know Korean. Success. Of course, they do not realize that this is one of the only words I can pick out from their conversations, but I will leave them in doubt on that point.


I took this picture looking out of the building where I work. The sun is setting on my world, ready to rise on yours.