Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Busier Than Expected

I'm at home now and it turns out my afternoon was busier. I helped the teachers set up for tomorrow's festival. We hung long ubiquitous banners of various world flags from the school's roof down to the surrounding trees and playgound. Koreans love to use these banners to show a celebration is taking place. We then set up tents around the clay field to make shade because Koreans hate dark skin. Our final task is where the real labour started.

We chalked out a running track twice. The first time the principal in a very Korean I'm the boss sort of way watered over so that tomorrow's grounds won't be so dusty. He could of avoided the track lines but because he's the man, he didn't. The second time around the chalk machine didn't work as good because the ground was saturated and dirt kept clogging up the machine's small holes. But the afternoon soon ended and then we all sat outside and ate Naengmyeon (cold noodles in ice water). Here I learnt that after tomorrow's event we will eat together again but this time we're sharing a full sized roasted pig and some king crabs.

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