I walked up another hill today. It wasn't as big as the first one I walked up, but you could still see a lot of stuff. A complex of some kind was being built on top. I stopped by some old men and watched the Hyundai machinery crush boulders. A sign showed that a basketball court, some tennis courts and some garden stuff would be built there by 07.31.2008. But today it was just a flat hilltop, and dirt. I kicked an errant soccerball back to a little girl. Dogs ignored my whistling, presumably because it was non-Korean. I saw a pigeon with a large tumor or some kind of growth on its foot. It was hopping around.

A smaller misfortune: Alex, the little guy from 2 posts down, sneezes tremendously; he sneezes voluminously; he sneezes foot-long boogers that dangle down to his desk. All from a 5-year-old nose in 3-foot frame. Usually there is a box of tissue in the classroom, but on Friday it was missing. So when the inevitable explosion occured, he was left standing there with snot stringing from his nose down to a pool on his desk. Of course, Joshua and Lisa started making fun of him, and since he couldn't really move or talk very well, he started crying. By the time Nadia arrived with the emergency tissue tears had run down his cheeks and were now dribbling down the mucus ribbons. It was quite a funny sight. Don't worry: he bounced back quickly and by the end of the day he had recovered enough to steal Joshua chocolate, which, in turn, made Joshua cry.