Unfortunately for Mokpo (and us) the majority of teachers at public schools in this place skip town right after Christmas. They get holidays for about 2 months, and generally end up in cheap, tropical areas like Thailand. Which means that by the time New Year's Eve comes around, there's not many people around to ring it in with us. But we made the most this year, with a party at our place! We had about 10 people over for a mellow party for which Dawn made about 100 pounds of food! She certainly likes to be prepared. So at midnight we went up to our rooftop and had sparklers and small fireworks (which we fired AWAY from the gas station). It was nice, much better than staying up in the apartment by ourselves. The most interesting part of the night came after a few people had left. At about 12:30 we heard some booming, and I went to the roof to investigate: it was fireworks! REAL fireworks. I don't know if their clocks were off, or if they couldn't find a match at midnight, but there were fireworks at 12:30am on New Year's Day. Weird.
That morning we hauled ourselves out of bed at 6am to go meet
Jason and Abby for breakfast and the sunrise, though not in that order. We scaled the Eastern 'face' of Ibansan, a small 'mountain' in their part of town. Really would have been a nice sunrise, had we actually seen the sun. As it was it was just too cloudy/misty. But it was fun, and we decided that we will eventually try again. I couldn't believe the amount of people who are at that mountain at 7am on a Monday. There were hundreds of people, which unfortunately makes things difficult, since it's actually a little hard to climb in parts. And for people who seem to be perpetually in hurry-mode, it never ceases to amaze me how slow some of them can be.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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