just som eye candy since i've been too busy to breathe lately. many times in life when i am riding the subway or having a compelling conversation with whomever i have gems of thought that fleet before i am able to record them. i wish they were all on here.

today is american thanksgiving day. we worked and this holiday of course is not celebrated in korea! myself and my 7 foreigner coworkers (including 2 canadians, i know, some people argue that they should not have been invited. :D) went to outback steakhouse to celebrate. most of us had a chicken breast smothered in cheese and bacon with a loaded baked potato for about 15 bucks. or else coconut shrimp.

so the photos with the folks are the thanksgiving dinner.

also some changing leaves near my school. it is nov 23 and the trees are finally shedding their leaves.

backlogged photos of halloween at school. we made masks in one of my classes.

and also, of course, more hiking photos! this time we were just off of line 8 (the pink one) at namhansanseong (south han mountain seong-?). it reminded me of living on circle mountain when i was a kid. which was both a circle and a mountain.

lastly are some photos of a contemporary art show in gwangju called the gwangju biennial. it's huge and i think one of the largest 5 in the world, maybe even better renouned than the whitney show. it was great b/c so many asian artists were involved and a then a few token whities. it is usually the other way around where i come from. the photo with the black stripes on the walls are actually made with torn black masking tape. this piece was gargantuan. the other was a photo of a movie playing on a big screen. this movie was by yoko ono. it showed a fly on various parts of a naked human body and very close up. this obvious is a nipple with a fly resting on it. i think it is funny b/c there are kids watching the video in the foreground. it was funny to see the korean women stand in awe and astonishment in what they were watching and then hurry their kids off to the next part of the exhibition.

tonight on a seperate note, two mid-20s aussies (?) wanted to ride in the elevator in the apartment. i saw them coming and thought i was pressing the open door button when actually it was quite the opposite. i kept holding it while half this boy's body was in the door crushing him. then i realized what i was doing and pushed the open door button. you would think i'd have more ideas about this working in an elevator company for a year and a half. then the other guy did this silly bow to me and said "kamsamnida" which means thank you in korean and got in the elevator.

it was funny b/c i realized they had no idea i was a native english speaker and then i wondered if later they were like, "wow, her english was pretty good. she musta lived overseas for a bit." like we sometimes comment on ppl we run across. and then i wondered if they wondered if i spoke english to them b/c i assumed they did not speak korean. which, in actually they could possibly speak it better than i. and then i wondered if they wondered that, were they offended? ha.