2002-12-07 - 1:27 a.m.

Playing Ketchup

I got my photos back from the developer. Enough of them turned out well, so it's worth putting them up on my site sometime soon, probably this weekend. For this, I go to a more expensive PC shop, where they have a scanner and photo editor. These photos are September-October vintage, more Buddhist temple garden pictures, street scenes here in Anam, and outside my apartment's porch. There are also scenery shots of the train ride down to Pusan in mid-October. The film roll ran out part way down and I was too "thrifty" (read "cheap") to buy another disposable camera. I kicked myself when it turned out I took a different ferry boat we had that magnificent stormy passage to Shimonoseki. The waves would have been splendid to record, as would the Japanese temple, park and street scenes.

I've had a week of teaching and enjoyed it very much. Today, the school director and I had lunch together. She is keen to improve her English, and I don't mind giving her some help, especially as she helps me with my Korean. We taught the English names of fruit to the kiddos: pear, apple, banana, orange and persimmon. We cut up the fruit and passed out pieces to help the kids remember the names. The older students remembered my prior lesson on "Please," Thank you," and "You're welcome." They are delightful kids!

The former teacher made off with the teachers' manuals for the text books, so I've been scouting around among my friends to find replacements. So far, I've scored one and gotten copies made of the student book pages for the next 2 weeks, of the other textbook.

One of my students has asked me and the other students to lunch mext Monday. We are quite impressed, because she is the grande dame of the local scene in Ha-an-dong. She says, "It will just be a simple luncheon: bulgogi, rice and some salads." I told her I just love 'pan chan' and she chuckled. 'Pan chan' is the general term for the many kinds of marinated vegetables ('pan,' pronounced |pahn|) which she was translating as 'salads.'

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~Sil in Corea

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