2003-07-25 - 7:46 p.m.

Busy, busy, busy!

This has been a month when I've hardly had time to catch my breath. A quick dash to delete spam, a once-a-week e-mail answering session, a few stolen moments catching up with favorite journals,...that's about it for internet time. I've done some substitute teaching in addition to my regular stints at the charity place and put in quite a lot of hours volunteering.

Last night, Yahoo couldn't open up my mailbox, although I hung around for 3 hours, trying different links on various pages. The only way I could sign in was to go over to Geocities.com, but that only enabled me to "vote" on news stories I was reading. I wondered if they were having a theft of services attack at the main Yahoo servers. It was the wee small hours of the morning in California, so they may have been doing some maintenance work.

This past week, I moved into my friend's house to take care of her cat while she is on vacation in the United States. It's nice being over here because it is closer to the center of Seoul. That means less commuting time for me to get to most of my destinations. I'm just a short walk from the USO hall, for example.

This does mean that I have to go back to my own place in Anam pretty frequently to feed my "street cats" and keep up a "presense" in my neighbourhood. (That's keeping in touch with my friends and neighbours in Anam.)

One of the great fringe benefits of being here in Garwoldong is being able to browse in my friend's bookcases. She has a lot of books on Korea and Buddhism. I've made a commitment to myself to catch up on my reading.

I've also started working with a couple of kids near here, helping them with their English. They are great kids and a lot of fun to talk with. We get together a couple afternoons each week. They are getting a kick out of learning the history of how English got to be the way it is, with the migrations and invasions of different tribes in northern Europe. We're exploring geography and how cultures changed when they moved into new territories.

Today has been a day for surfing the web and getting caught up in all sorts of interesting link-hopping. The quiz below is just one of the goodies. I found it at Joan's site. At Nicky's, there's a link to the Victoria and Albert Museum, and I went off to the Ossie Clark (and Celia Birtwell) exhibit,... very nostalgic.

If I had lived 400 years ago, I would have been... a Native American! One of the most rich cultures in the Western Hemisphere is that of the "Indians" as Columbus first called them. Fairly bursting with ceremonies, regalia, songs, chants and spirits is their ancient society. You respect nature and are very aware of other's feelings. You are a healer and can always make others feel better when their life is at a rough spot. ~ TAZL.com ~ Take Quiz ~

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I've tried everything I could think of to make the links visible on that banner, but they defy me. They are between the tildes ) ~ ~ ~ ) and the one to go to the quiz is to the right.

~ TAZL.com ~ Take Quiz ~

There, maybe that'll work!

Happy Trails!

~ Sil in Corea

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