and others who do...
So news other than bad news has been slow to come by...I could make things up, but that wouldn't be as much fun as saying what's really happening.
Interesting things have been happening, but most of them aren't worth noting. However, after talking about the parents who don't really give a hoot about whether their children enjoy their education, I thought that i'd make passing mention of two things that have happened recently, to somewhat redeem the Korean people.
First, the past two months of late June, July, and half of August, the weather had been unbearably hot. The high humidity, and scorching heat, were driving everyone insane. My roommate had graciously shared his wall-mounted air-conditioning unit, and with two fans (one pointing out of his room into the kitchen, and the second blowing from the kitchen into my room) we were able to share the cool breezes flowing from the wonderful cold air machine. ( With everyone using their air-conditioners back home as well, its a wonder that we make each successive summer more hotter than the previous by forcing our energy companies to burn more fossil fuels to keep pace, making more air pollution, and creating bigger holes in our ozone...) I digress. So, at the end of last month, the energy company sent someone to our door. Normally, our electricity bill sits around 35 Canadian a month, however, due to the higher temperature, ours had spiked to 50 Canadian. This jump worried the power company, so they sent someone to inspect that there was no problem with their recording instruments inside the house, and that we weren't being overcharged on account of something that was possibly their fault...
The second instance involved a set of car keys. If I'd been thinking faster, I would have taken a picture with my phone. Someone had dropped their keys outside of their just recently parked car on the apartment side street. (I know it was recently parked because the car was still steaming). The security guard, a robust man of mid-fifties age, noticed the keys dropped right beside the car door. And with some binder twine he was carrying, ties the car keys to the tree right beside the just parked car. There was no worry that the car would be stolen...it was just the most convenient way to solve the issue at hand. At the end of my day, both the car and keys were gone, and I don't doubt for a second that the innocent driver found the keys, and drove off, as if nothing was amiss....
I sometimes wonder if there was ever a time like this in Canada...
cheers
Interesting things have been happening, but most of them aren't worth noting. However, after talking about the parents who don't really give a hoot about whether their children enjoy their education, I thought that i'd make passing mention of two things that have happened recently, to somewhat redeem the Korean people.
First, the past two months of late June, July, and half of August, the weather had been unbearably hot. The high humidity, and scorching heat, were driving everyone insane. My roommate had graciously shared his wall-mounted air-conditioning unit, and with two fans (one pointing out of his room into the kitchen, and the second blowing from the kitchen into my room) we were able to share the cool breezes flowing from the wonderful cold air machine. ( With everyone using their air-conditioners back home as well, its a wonder that we make each successive summer more hotter than the previous by forcing our energy companies to burn more fossil fuels to keep pace, making more air pollution, and creating bigger holes in our ozone...) I digress. So, at the end of last month, the energy company sent someone to our door. Normally, our electricity bill sits around 35 Canadian a month, however, due to the higher temperature, ours had spiked to 50 Canadian. This jump worried the power company, so they sent someone to inspect that there was no problem with their recording instruments inside the house, and that we weren't being overcharged on account of something that was possibly their fault...
The second instance involved a set of car keys. If I'd been thinking faster, I would have taken a picture with my phone. Someone had dropped their keys outside of their just recently parked car on the apartment side street. (I know it was recently parked because the car was still steaming). The security guard, a robust man of mid-fifties age, noticed the keys dropped right beside the car door. And with some binder twine he was carrying, ties the car keys to the tree right beside the just parked car. There was no worry that the car would be stolen...it was just the most convenient way to solve the issue at hand. At the end of my day, both the car and keys were gone, and I don't doubt for a second that the innocent driver found the keys, and drove off, as if nothing was amiss....
I sometimes wonder if there was ever a time like this in Canada...
cheers