Monsoons and Water cannons

Another crazy week has come and gone here in Korea. Monsoon/typhoon season is finally upon us here at Camp Hovey. It was a month late. Mother nature was a bit late in clensing the green hills with her wrath of water. Imagine turning the heat on in your house to 90 degrees, jumping in and out of the shower several times a day. That is what Korea feels like right now. On top of that the Adishady have turned into Adishi Andretti in their taxi cabs, buses and even their Primo's Pizza and Popeye's Chicken delivery cars. (See pictures below of these things) I should add that both of these cars are micro type cars. If you sneeze next to it, it will likely tip over. One of them even has a roll cage in it (I think it is the Primo's Pizza vehicle that has the roll bar in it). It is only a matter of time before Adishi Andretti takes the Hovey cut (a very norrow windy road up to where I work and live) too fast and puts his beloved yellow micro car into the raging creek.

In other crazy news, about 200 anti-American Korean protestors took to the streets of TDC last week, preventing Joe from going to his favorite place, the Ville. Not to be outdown the Merchant's Association (aka Ajima with the strong pimp hand and her hired muscle) also took to the streets to protest the Korean hippies. There were about 50 Merchant Association folks. The two sides converged and The Korean National Police, turned two water cannons on the Merchants to prevent any trouble. It was awful nice of them to take water for Joe. I have included the link to the story right here. www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=55371&archive=true

In other somewhat sad yet good news for him, my esteemed battle buddy and Ville transformationist is riding that big vine in the sky home on Tuesday so this weekend will be his last in the Ville. It will not be the same without him. I wish him the best as he gets set to travel to Iraq. As he says, I hope Mother Nature locks it up for him on this monsoon business as he departs Korea. Gods be my friend.