I woke up this morning to discover that it wasn’t raining! This meant that I could walk to they conference centre and offset some of the breakfast that I have been eating. Encouraged, I set off without my umbrella, only to have it start raining when I was about halfway between here and my destination. Oh well, I’m not made of sugar and I don’t melt in the rain.
We dutifully assembled at the meeting place to catch the bus to our meeting location – being librarians and generally compliant, we were all about 10 minutes early. The only thing was, the bus wasn’t. After many phone calls, it turned out that the bus company “forgot” to send the bus. Fortunately there was an overhang on the building so we were out of the rain, and a bus appeared about 30 minutes late, which meant that we arrived at our destination in time for tea. The organizers then stuck to the original schedule, but ran everything half an hour later. For Canadians, this was reminiscent of the joke, “The world will end at 10 tonight, 10:30 in Newfoundland”, although I realized today that this will now apply to Korea and North Korea as well.
The sun emerged at lunch time for long enough for the obligatory picture taking, and then retreated behind the clouds again. This means that the photo will make it appear that I have been lounging in a land of sunshine.
Tonight I finished editing a friend’s thesis, the second one since I graduated. I remain surprised to discover that writing a thesis actually taught me something about writing…
Ah Pyongyang time…