Blogroll: The Bus Stop
When people back home ask “what’s up?” or “how was your day?” the bus stop never comes to mind. Maybe it’s because I take the bus every day, and it’s become commonplace for me. Yet this part of my day is worth mentioning, and definitely worth remembering, as I often fail to do. In the tiny town of Galsan, some days I am a spectacle. People smile or gawk, and other days they pass right on by. I am on my best behavior at the bus stop.
Blogroll: There is the Clown
Several months ago, I entered my school’s cafeteria to the usual progression of gasps, hush, and shouts of “LUKE TEACHER!” “VERY TALL!” the Korean word for foreigner, and other phrases I can’t understand.
On that day, as I waved back subtly as possible, I noticed my co-teacher was attempting to conceal her laughter with her hand, making brief eye contact with me, only to look away, and briefly back, and away again.
Tales of the Mushroom People
It has been well chronicled that Poison Pie, Man of the Mushroom People, lived deep within a massive forest. It was either the cause or the result of this fact that he was also known as Deus Sylvus. But he was not the only Man of the Mushroom People…