SaraDevil: The Interests of Sara Davila online Artist

Spring is hear at least. I can tell because they have spring in Korea. An
actual gradual warming of things and blooming without sudden dumps of snow and
frost. It's been really quite can expereince. For awhile the cherry and
magnolias where blossoming but they have no gone to green. What was nice was
the effect for the last few days of snow in Daegu. On the hill that I walk down
to get to school the cherry tries are very high up on the walls, so they wind
blows the flower petels into the street, coating it in white. Really quite
impressive. I remember when I was a kid that I was fascinated by trees that
made it seem like snowing, probably from watching to many Japanese cartoons.
Really interesting to see it happen.

Spring has also brought with it the opening of Subway down the street, much to
the delight of all the foriegn teachers here, and the Korean staff as well. I
have to admit that I have not yet broken down and stopped by, but I'm sure I
will eventually subcome to promise of sandwhiches made for me. Especially since
the carry the long lost veggie sub, which I really do miss.

It's been really rather quite, I've been to busy working, or otherwise to
write. The school is trying to finish and finalize the books so we can get that
going. The new school opening has been pushed back because of building
reconstruction issues, but still seems to be happening, which is also good. Sam
aquired another job in about four days after deciding against the University
postion.

The speed with which one can aquire a new job in Korea is really something. If
you can speak English, are not glaringly deformed, and capable of staying
awake for five hours you can get a job pretty quickly. I dont' actually know if
that coments on my situation, but I find it rather amusing in all. It's nice
though, to have a good paying job with few things to worry about. I must
remember to mail letters to America because it is easy to forget things you are
paying off in another country.

Sam and I journeyed out to Pagyesa Park on Saturday afternoon. It was
unfortunately rather crowded with people, including students that I knew, which
can be a little irritating when you have traveled on a bus for over an hour to
get away from you side of town. I refeer to Pagyesa area as the Vermount of
Daegu, as it is beautiful, full of trees, and moutains, and lots of curving
roads.

On Sunday we took a trip to Walmart and managed to find a bunch of DVD's for
Sam's swanky new DVD player, as well as some music. And on the way back we
stopped by the Daegu National Museum (I think) were we took in some far more
spectacular Korean pottery. The pottery here was all wheel thrown and had
beautiful designs. They also had a very interesting collection of jewlerey and
other pieces. The art section seemed to feature mostly cermic pots.

I did see one thing i thought interesting. There was a section of pots where
the design had been carved into the pot. Then the lines were filled with a
white sleep or a red slip. After the lines were filled the whole thing was
clear glazed (this is more than 500 some odd years ago, I forget the date). The
pot was fired and the white stays white, while the red turns for black, giving
some really interesting designs on the pieces, and making them very clear and
visible at the same time. I thought that was fascinating.

Other than that, I mostly tried to relax this weekend. I've been playing with
me sewing machine (made three jackets and two pairs of pants, and fixed three
pairs of paints) and rearranging my apartment. The big change was to move the
T.V. into the big closet I don't use and turn it into an entertainment center
of sorts. The nice thing is I was able to add about 3 square feet of open space
to my apartment and I can now put the T.V. away so it doesn't dominate my room
like a big hulking black box.

Well, that's really all for now. I'm okay. Although the whole SARS thing is
rather creepy we have yet to had a scare in South Korea. Hope everything is
well with you wherever you are,

Sara