Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Tight Spaces

With 48 million people in South Korea, it is the world's 26th most populous country. And one fifth of this total population lives in Seoul. That's 10 million people in one city. The chances of getting lost in the crowd are very high. But it hasn't been a problem for us yet. When we are crammed on a side walk or in a subway station with wall to wall people, all we have to do is look up and see this:
It's not hard to lose each other with our long red hair. I even think our hair is becoming trendy at our school. The kids call it "gold" hair, but I suppose compared to the black hair they are used to seeing, ours really does look like it glows. Is it a coincidence that students are turning up at school with new red highlights since we've been there? There is everything from cherry red streaks to strawberry blonde highlights. There are even two teachers that have shown up with red dye jobs. Maybe we are influencing them with more than our English.

1 Comments:

At 22/11/05 5:15 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you worked for Nova Intercultural Institute, you would've been forced to dye your hair black. They want their teachers to represent the various English-speaking cultures around the world, but only if they all look the same (that's why I could't wear earrings, grow any facial hair, and had to keep my hair short. Ironically, the "long-haired, lame goatee sporting, earring wearing English teacher that I became was quite popular with the students also!) Defenitely a hair thing. Cory

 

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