SaraDevil: The Interests of Sara Davila online Artist

I'd like to personally thank the President for making it difficult to get a cab
in Korea. I've had several cabs just drive right by my this weekend. A few
would switch off their lights, drive pass me, then switch the lights back on.
Very aggervating. I can understand of course, why they are avoiding me. I'm a
forigner, probably an American, and right now there are lots of Korean's that
have little love for foriengers, especially Americans.

Considering that, unlike our President, the Korean people happen to be next
door neighbors with a meglomanic who could potentially blow them up, I can
sympathize. Considering that I am living with them and could be potentially
blown up, I'm just as irritated with the US actions right now as they are.

For the most part North Korea has been very quite. A little bit of talking,
denouncing, and what not, but otherwise everything seems to be undercontrol.
South Korea is continued talks, although Japan has mentioned several times that
they have an itchy trigger finger and if North Korea should do anything at all
Japan is ready for the fight. Hopefully it will not come to this, as I really
like my job, my apartment, and Korea and would hate to end up evacuating. It
is still only a possibility that it might come to that, and for the most part,
I think this will all pass without anything to crazy happneing but it's hard to
tell.

One of the most distressing things was teaching on Thursday morning as our
country began bombing Iraq. It was quite obvious that the kids were tuned into
the news, as my first class, a group of 8 students in age from 7-9 american,
all came in and said "Teacher, America boom Iraq" and various other things to
let me know that they were aware of the war, and what was going on. We talked a
little about it, but this is not one of my most advanced classes so I tried to
steer away from engaging in War talk. Poor Mary had a lot of trouble with
students fighting, which I suspect had a great deal to do with spending the
first part of their day watching to much T.V. and then coming to school a
little aggressive. All the students were testy, really, which I sort of
expected. The hardest class was my POB class (the one of Jae-ho fame) in which
the students came in and told me again about the war. With this class we talked
about it just a little. Considering that the age of these students is between 4
and 7 we were able to come to the decision that "War is bad" "Bush is crazy"
"Sara Teacher is good, but war is crazy" which I thought was quite a bit to
accomplish with our discussion. The students know that I'm an american and
generally they do not make anti-american remarks, but some of the students came
in saying that Americans were bad, making it very difficult day indeed.

On Korean bowing: Generally Koreans bow from the waist, titling the upper part
of the body into a boy. Most bows are generally very friendly and not very
deep. It's a quick acknowledgment of thanks between friends. When you are
dealing with older people it would not be uncommon to make a deep bow (bending
completly until the head the body is at a 90 degree angle) several times to
acknowledge respect. I'm not sure about other asian bowing, but that is what I
have seen so far in Korea.

This weekend was quiet. I forgot to attend the textile fair that Mr. Kim was
moonlighting at, but I did manage to find a sewing machine at least. That made
me very happy.

Hope everything is well with everyone else,

Yours,

Sara