Pink eared dogs!

We've been busy over the holiday weekend. Friday was Bhudda's birthday, and it turns out to be a Korean public holiday. Holidays are a bit like red traffic lights though, as they tend not to be compulsory. I got called into the plant due to a spot-visit by one of our major customers. I headed into the plant having arranged for one of my English speaking colleagues to be present. Unfortunately, he had another meeting arranged with a motorcycle on the way into work, and ended up scraping the guy off the road and taking him to hospital. I hung around feeling as useful as a chocolate fireguard, as I had no clue as to what they were on about. I lasted for about 2 hours and decided to head back to the apartment. I would pick up what went on when I went back to work on the following Wednesday.

Once I got back, we decided to head over to Ansan station, where there was a indoor market around the entrance. We needed to top up Sue's mobile phone with minutes, and as we had no clue how to do this, we went back to the place where we bought it. A short while later, we were topped up, and armed with a card which purported to give an extra 180 minutes later, but agaon, something was lost in translation, and we have no clue how to use it! We'll attempt that one when the minutes run out later!. We wandered around the shops in Ansan station, which seems to be a mini Phillipines, as this is where a lot of the migrant workforce seem to live. The shops were full of mobile phones, and pigs faces, not all in the same place I might add. The rest of the day was spent lazily, and enjoying our time together.

Saturday brought lots of warm sunshine and a load of light aircraft, due to a festival of leisure flight on at the local aerodrome right next to the apartment complex. This started off with parachuters jumping out of a helicopter down to the airfiled. I can never understand why anyone would want to jump out of a perfectly good functioning aircraft, regardless of how good it might look or feel! Lots of fly-pasts with pipers, cessnas and other aircraft I dont have a clue about, making lots of noise and no doubt enthralling the locals with expensive 5 minute trips around the marshland then back onto terra-firma. This festival is on for a few days, coinciding with the Ansan street art festival taking place in Ansan lake park and city centre. It's here we had our encounter with the pink-eared dogs. Not one but several could be spotted following behind their owners, probably wondering why they being the centre of attention. I felt sorry for the poor things, as they know not of the ridicule of which they are subject!