Well, it only took until the last day of November, but it snowed in Seoul today. Here's the scene. I'm sitting in the pension office, finishing up my paperwork, Coffee Bean coffee in hand, relishing life, and counting all those numbers on my soon to arrive pension check. (one of the nice things I'm sure you'll always read about Korea - being a "millionaire" never, never gets old....I KNOW I'm going to miss this feeling back home.) So back to my story. I'm leaving the office, and there's some female bank teller's squealing like school girls after seeing someone famous. So as I'm putting on my coat and buttoning up my jacket, another female bank teller leaves the lobby, and goes outside. Inside the building, I hear her squealing with excitement. So I finally head outside, to notice that its snowing. I didn't care that they were squealing, that wasn't important to me anymore. It was snowing. (I found out later tonight from a parent of one of my students that Korean women LOVE snow. They don't like cold weather, but they love snow.) Last year, my Korean friends and I had a contest to see who could be the first to text everyone; I got second. However, this year, I was first.
So I get to my institute, and all of the Korean staff are jumping all over the place. The kids are all pretending as if we've never seen snow before, and as if everyone who they run into doesn't know what snow is...."Teacher, let's open the window! Let the snow in! Teacher, I want to play snowball fights!".....lets just say that I'm glad I'm not a preschool teacher. So me and one of my Korean friends decide during break time to go downstairs to take pictures of the snow. So we get off the elevator, step outside, and as sure as it was, there was no snow....we were slightly disappointed. However, the most important thing was that it snowed. Took the stinking freezing weather long enough. If I'm going to freeze my butt off walking to school, I'd much rather do it walking through snow as opposed to nothing, or, worse yet, cold cold rain.
So that was the highlight for today.
Oh, that and today was my last day of work:)
cheers all -