Hey there. Hope you’re all doing ok at home. New Year was alright I got to explore Seoul go to a War museum and go to a Korean Folk village with my Flat mate. That was an interesting experience. There was lots of old fashioned dancing, Wish tree ceremonies (where they offer fruit, a pigs head and various other things along with prayer to please the gods into making the wishes they had tied to the tree come true. See album) there were fortune tellers, and a replica of an old village which was interesting to look around. It was sooo cold that the whole of the river running through the village was frozen over and people were skating and sledging on it. Anyway after some cultural experiences I thought it time to celebrate the New Year in style and went and partied in Seoul with some friends. I had lots of spare time on my hands so I missed a lot of people.
Anyway after a week of relaxing I got back to work. Doing activities and practicing interviews with the children to be filmed this week. Each class had to practice an interview according to which text book they were working out of and this week they have to sit in front of a camera with me and have and interview. Then they have to recite a dialogue and after that the Korean teacher says things in Korean and they have to translate it. I’m not totally sure why they’re doing it but the guy next to me sits around all day editing the ones that have already been filmed at the other schools in the Khan Chain. I think maybe it’s to put on their website for advertising or to send home for the parents to watch.
Anyway I’m not sure if anyone’s heard but one of Koreas biggest and most important Castles was burnt down last week by this mental old bloke. App he was about 75 and he poured gasoline around the castle and set it alight. It’s reported that he had tried to do it to another palace around 3 years ago but was caught and put in prison for 2 years. He was let go and successfully did it to the number one landmark in Korea. Mental little man, god knows why he’s got a thing against old buildings. Anyway he’s only been put away for 3 years now so he’ll prob come out and do it again if he survives his sentence. The repairs will cost over a million quid and this guy is only put away for 3 years no mental asylum even though he is clearly a honey nut loop!
