Sunny Breaks

Some australians came to the sckool today. My joint has a sister sckool relationship with a certain christian college in Brizzy—they do student exchange at the end of the year and so on. Well actually – our girls go there but no one comes here – apart from this today – this teacher guy, his wife and 8 year old boy.
When they walked into the auditorium this morning I hadn’t heard hysterical screaming at that level since—I walked in the first time .. and before that – since the Beatles did Ed Sullivan. 1200 screaming 13, 14 and 15 y.o.s. If you’d let em, they probably wouldda torn that little boy apart. Did he look freaked—he was holding onto his mum’s leg for all he was worth.

They did a slide show about the college in brizzy and life in queensland, australia etc—and I was reminded of how much this country is like hell in comparrison to Oz. He mentioned the summer and winter temperature ranges and I started to tear up.

I got to meet them, and for some reason – mostly the christian thing – I thought he was gonna be like the principal in that Roald Dahl book The Witches – which if I remember correctly, turned kids into mice and then ate them? I don’t know. But he was okay and it was nice to talk to some australian accents. 98% of the people I know in seoul are n.american. The kid was was sunk in his game boy advance, which I could understand—- the overwhelm.

I never mentioned how I made my first voyages into wacky korean t-shirt purchasing a month or two back. A close runner up was this one that said, “I’ll use anything” and the pictures of keys and brill cream and typewriters and an ‘Extra!’ old style paperboy. Another, which I would’ve bought save them not having my size was a laundry detergent style typeface with ‘sunny days’ or some such on it – it looked way cool and I’d like to try and do the hompagey in that bold, brassy and upbeat style one day.

The one I got has

on it. It can be easily misconstrued toward the negative, but I try to take it in a zen – nothing way – even though buddhism is dead now.
The other night walking home I passed this mum+dad and their 10 y. o. girl in bright green pants, matching-coloured shirt and on it saying LOSER in red.