Yes, I am indeed. As yet the North Koreans haven't got me. In fact, things have gone a bit quieter during the last few days. It's pretty easy to forget that I'm living in a country which is still, technically at least, at war. Anyway, I'm going to ignore the hysterical chunterings of some English teachers that I have read online and not worry about it until things get a lot worse. The way I see it, I'm not living in a legitimate military target anyway, and the North has no chance of actually winning a war. In fact, they are largely unable to feed their army, so even if things did look bad I could just loot a local grocery store and go and live in the mountains until the Americans piled in and mopped up.
So, if anyone is worried, please don't be. I'm registered with the embassy and I do check the FCO page regularly. If things look bad I promise I will jump on a boat to Japan and work out what I'm going to do from there.
On to happier stuff then. I'm still trying to catch up with everything that I mean to post from the last few weeks. I'm going to continue with some shots from the Jinbu Buddha day parade. This took place on the 14th of May, a week before Buddha's birthday, as most people (myself included) use the National holiday to go away for a long weekend.
It was a pretty entertaining evening. We went to watch the parade, and thanks to a friend ended up being involved in it. It was good fun carrying a lantern through the town, with the high school band just behind us. This was followed by a concert, but by that time I was tired and hungry, so I disappeared home. Still, here are some of the pictures I took from the parade.
Buddhist kids are cute.
And so are Shitzus, apparently.
Buddhas.
Readying the lanterns.
Marching band.
Buddha being pushed around the streets.
As above.
Buddhist ladies, clearly not too devout to wave at a foreigner with a camera.
It's fun to dress up.
Elephants.
Tiger.
Buddhists, young and old (above and below).
Not really sure what this was.
I'm also including a couple of videos I took. The first is a shot of a couple of floats followed by traditional bands in some pretty cool traditional clothes. I'm really digging the first groups pompom hats. Musicians wearing these are usually accompanied by dancers with twirling ribbons attached to the tops of their hats.
The second video is of the high school band, who I think are actually pretty good. They're definitely better than I remember the Skinners' School orchestra being (with apologies to anyone I know who was involved in that venerable institution).
Jinbu Buddha Day Parade from Alexander Grevett on Vimeo.
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Jinbu High School Band from Alexander Grevett on Vimeo.
OK. That's it for a short while. I hope to have another post done very soon.
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