The Korean lunar new year, called Seolnal (if you're transliterating letters) or Seollal (if you're transcribing sounds), was actually yesterday—Friday, January 31. Today's the first day of February, so I'm a day late in wishing everyone a Happy New Year.
It's now the Year of the Horse—a year of industry and fidelity. For horse-people born in 1942, like Muhammad Ali, this means you've gone six times around the twelve-year zodiac. Congratulations, but may this also be a year of equine-level hard work and faithfulness for the rest of us, too.
Today, I'm meeting a friend in Daegu for lunch, then heading back home to continue to try to be industrious. February 1 marks the first day of the second calendar month of my vacation: I don't start teaching until March 3. Despite the lengthy vacation, there's still much for me to do in terms of lesson-planning: once I'm done with my KMA lesson plans, I've got to create a textbook for my upcoming pronunciation course as well as plan out the semester for my regular speaking/conversation courses. That's a lot of work to be done, and not much time in which to do it. Vacation's not really vacation at all, is it?
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Saturday, February 01, 2014
a belated Happy New Year
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