Snowing in Seoul

I woke up this morning to a phone call from Ruth, asking me if I'd looked outside. I peeled my drool encrusted cheek from my pillow, wiped my bleary eyes and crawled to my window and lo and behold, there was snow. Not just a little bit of snow, you know, that ankle biting stuff that England is hit with once every four years, but snow that you lose your boots in. Huge amounts of it. Everywhere.

Normally this occurrence would have filled me with joy and turned me into a child, running out and bombing into the middle of the hugest pile of the white flakes, but today heralded the return to work, after my short, but much needed, holiday. Instead, I dragged myself into the shower and trudged off to school, being knocked out of the way by about a million purposeful Asians. It took me longer than usual to get to school, seeing as the snow was up to my calves, but when I arrived I was very happy to see that I was on time (we have changed our schedule to 'winter intensive' which is actually, I'm pretty sure more 'intensive' for the teachers than the kids, giving the fuck load of extra work and extra hours). I dashed to the lift and met Swany, who told me that she had been travelling for the past hour and a half to get to work. When we reached our floor we found Adam, sitting alone in the teacher's room and nothing else. And that was pretty much how it stayed until about ten when the kids started rolling in, but still no sign of the teachers. In the end, Sarah turned up at 12.30, Amelie at 1 and Heidi at 2.15. Luckily, Sarah's insatiable work ethic meant that we kept on working and covering classes, even though a load of kids didn't show up and we had only 3 teachers for the majority of the day. Nevermind that half of my friend's schools were closed. Still, means that we don't have to work Sat, unlike most of them.

All in all, it seems that despite their protests in the summer, Korean's do shut down when it snows. Hmph, and here I was thinking that I'd come to a country that would laugh in the face of 12 feet of snow.