We had dinner with our neighbor Jin the other night. His English is passable but not awesome, and my Korean is not even passable, but he tried to explain to us something about Japan. The next morning, there was a bottle of something on our doorstep with a note, which explained that the kelp-seaweed mix in the bottle was to ward off radiation. Now, I work on a military base, which obsessively tests radiation levels on a regular basis as a matter of national security, so I know there's no harmful radiation here. Nonetheless, the next day it rained and Mr. Pan came in and told me it was radioactive rain from Japan. When we went out for dinner with some friends that night, we did not take out the umbrella because it was only spritzing. A Korean guy told us to use our umbrella because the rain was radioactive. The Americans we were with thought that was hilarious.
I guess sensationalist news exists all over the world. I'm sure that if there were some way to say that Arab nations were sending radioactive rain towards America, Fox News would be the first to run the story, and probably not the last.
In other news, the cherry blossoms are here! We took a walk down our street this morning, and Maya mostly behaved herself. She had a “conversation” with a Jindo that had the people around us scattering, which is why I don't walk her down the road without Bobby. He had to lift her up and carry her for a few blocks.
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| Outside of our house |
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