a wonderful chart made by one of the grad students here
oh and happy birthday kyung hee university. school has kind of stopped and lit up tents have popped up everywhere--to celebrate the school's birthday. it reminds me of the hill in paris where julianne and i ate mussels. although it is strange that school is suspended for its birthday, there is a nice lively atmosphere about. bright tents glowing in dark rain, full of eating drinking and laughing. doesn't really remind me of school. and it's tuesday.
you can get take out delivered to a picnic table here.
last week was teacher's day, they take that pretty seriously too. all the students gathered in one room ans sang to the teachers. and i totally unaware, was brought into this room and had to sit up front while it all happened. then we went downstairs and had cake and juice boxes.
anton got some socks, and some vitamin c candies for his health.
yesterday matt gave a great talk (art=life) at Silla University in Busan. it felt very different there from kyung hee. they were also having a ruku festival. which appeared to me to be a sort of delightfully frantic process--and a bunch of the students were wearing hats made out of newspaper. then we rode the ktx back to busan. lots of mountains and greenhouses. very organized land.
in the dorm, all the other women line up their shoes outside their doors, and today the hallways are also full of drying umbrellas.
there are groups of students that gather and play traditional drum music. they sort of walk very heavily, very assertively putting one foot an front of the other and beat their drums. the part i actually like is that one person wears this hat that has this ribbon-dancer part and the long ribbon whips around their head.
everyone like to stand under the cherry trees and shake the petals down.
and out on the lake are lots of little floating houses. i do not know if they are for fishing, living or both, but i like them.
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