How is the weather in Korea?

Snowing, actually. Since my apartment window looks straight out to another building, I was shocked to see snow piled on top of cars and along the roads this morning when I got outside. I though it rather fitting for the lesson on weather that I'd been preparing. How is the weather in Korea? Crazy. I've finally made some sense of the 5 umbrellas that were left in a cabinet in my one-person apartment. You never know when it will rain... or snow. So, one umbrella at each school, one in my bag and two for when I inevitably leave one on the subway. I'm all set.

Unfortunately I have a camera curse and always abandon my camera on days when I could have used it. My bag has been getting more and more stuffed each day so to save space my camera got the boot this morning. I immediately regretted my decision when I got outside as I would have liked a picture of my street with a pretty layer of frosting over it. I said before that the city looks better in good light. I'll add to that now- white is it's color. It was still lightly snowing this evening so hopefully it will look the same tomorrow.

I was able to leave early from school today with my co-teacher to go the immigration office and pick up my alien registration card. The bus was packed with middle and high school students. I'm able to identify their school by the color of their plaid. So, although out of the 400+ students I teach I have memorized two names, I know which girls go to my schools at least. They wave and try to work out in giggly Korean how to ask me a question in English and then push one of the braver girls at me. I'm here to get them to speak English so I'm doing my job just by riding the bus.

Later on at the cell phone store my co-teacher and I sat around for over an hour waiting for them to activate new my phone. I had a cup of sugar with coffee and listened to people speak Korean. Suddenly a man in hospital wear dragging an IV stand with him rushed in. It was finally my turn to stare at someone. But no one, including the 2 clerks, acted like anything was odd about this. From the looks of things the guy was there to pay his phone bill. He handed over some bills, dropped the change on the little round plate on his IV (no pockets in hospital pants) and left. Back to the hospital I hope. There's another picture I would like to have taken- man in white cotton hospital set connected to an IV, clanking down the slushy sidewalk in the snow.