JuHee in GunPo, her neighborhood
JuHee is the girl in the first photo, and my host here... the second photo has a couple with matching shoes, and they made me smile. Seoul has been amazing and strange, its a very busy, tall and cold city. In contrast JuHee's family has been amazingly welcoming and kind, her mother is hilarious. She is tiny (maybe 5 feet tall) and petite, this morning she came into my room to bring me the jeans she had laundered for me earlier this week and she walked in holding them up to her body, they came up to just below her chest, and looked like they were fit for a giant next to her, she was giggling and said 'very big' to me as she passed them back to me.
I visited the DMZ yesterday and actually got to but not one but... both feet in North Korea, strange concept... The night I arrived JuHee's father asked me 'when did you first learn the difference between North Korea and South Korea?' Luckily I had Korean room mates in boarding school so I was not too embarrassed to answer that question. He said he has heard some Americans do not know the difference, and then chuckling he quoted Bush about the 'Axis of Evil.'
More Photos will come soon (I am having a fight about RAW files with my CS4 and it's winning)
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