Saturday, October 13, 2012

Recent "Firsts"

Recent Firsts:

- old men playing croquet under the train tracks

- 50-60 year old men playing some sort of stick game in the dirt next to the market

- brown squirrel with white belly when hiking up the mountain nearby (It's VERY rare to see wild animals of any sort here!)

- '119' ambulance truck went zooming by with sirens and lights blaring and flaring

- ate a fig off the tree on the school grounds (given to me by a student)

- received a bag of natural medicine for free from the acupuncture doctor

- a tree with leaves a bunch of different colors - fall must be coming


- when walking down a very familiar side alleyway this morning, I felt for a moment that I was in the U.S.... (Indeed, this feels like home in many ways!)


- empty shops with no one in sight, as if we were on an empty movie set (on Chuseok, Korean Thanksgiving, one of the most important holidays here)


- visited Buddhist temple in Busan, South Korea


- picked up seashells and "sea glass" in Busan, South Korea

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