Guess I got a case of the Mondays

SNOW???????!!!!! I demand a refund! Of warm weather. Everyone in Korea says that they've never had snow this late. AHEM, GLOBAL WARMING, AHEM.

I may be a little miffed about the lack of warm weather. I'm just tired of jackets, that's all. Well, that and always shivering. I have this irrational fear that it will still be snowing in May. Then I will simply have to cry. And then kill the god of cold weather and kick some global warming ass.

For any of you who have been dying to hear how catastrophically the field trip went, I cannot actually deliver any particularly amazing stories. The children were remarkably well behaved and I didn't accrue any new injuries. The puppy show itself (which was remarkably devoid of dogs) was rather boring from a linguistic point of view, though there was one particular moment in which I was suddenly forcibly reminded of myself. This was when a white masked puppeteer emerged from behind a structure. The puppet that it confronted was momentarily afraid, then started asking it questions in rapid Korean. To this, the white masked puppeteer responded by cocking its head and then signing a response. IT WAS THE WHITE DEVIL! That's what I do every day! Maybe I am actually a strange Korean spirit thing. Amazing, what one learns about oneself in a foreign country.

The weekend was a much needed respite from the week. I saw a Korean/Irish St. Patrick's Day parade which was quite entertaining- just imagine a bunch of somewhat drunk Koreans and ex-pats dressed in green with face paint and bright green wigs hanging out in a square in the middle of a bunch of high rises. Public drinking is legal in Korea, so everyone seemed to have a beer in hand. Maybe I'm a prude, but 2 pm on a Saturday just seems to early to be drunk...

Also, I got my first taste of yellow dust season. Korea has the misfortune of being east of China, which is downwind in the jet stream. This means that from March to May, there is this strange phenomenon where yellow dust from the northern desert in China comes blowing into the sky of Korea. It turns the sky yellow and creates acid rain. Yum. I couldn't really get a good picture, but I have never seen clouds that color before. Poor lungs.

In other news, one of my hellions punched me today.

In the face.

He may be dead.