COOL BLUE REASONS... Brightly colored shirts, lining occasional streets. Neon greens contrasting against bright pinks. -Inside them are Koreans who greet every passing car with a deep bow and a cheerful phrase.
Here in South Korea, we are within a week of elections. A serious politician, knows nothing of planting crowded rows of plastic signs along the highways,... rather his advertisements are alive and surprisingly happy to be out and about on the streets greeting people with repeatedly surprising and sincere smiles. Big box trucks roll through neighborhoods and past rice fields with megaphones full of poppy catch tunes.... they display larger than life faces of politicians whose images are surely too happy.
BASKETS OF RED leaf lettuce and many tasty leafy green things with names unknown to me are being served steadily with lunch the past couple weeks - which is more often than picked by the principal?....then prepared by the lunch ladies...which consist of an odd mix of students, assistants, and the occasional vice principal.
There is a stricter sense of hierarchy here.. but it is served with consideration and humbleness.
The schools garden is producing a tasty harvest.
SHINY NEW GYM, is where i now play badminton once a week with my local friends. It is hard to complain...I am always meeting new people who are all at once very friendly. And I am sliding slowly into eating better and exercising more...next weeks project...start taekwando lessons.
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