I'm already there

I read a CBC article about the European Space Agency looking for volunteers to go on a simulated voyage to Mars. Part of the article describing what will happen on the voyage made me wonder if people were watching me. It's as if they were talking about my life in Korea! I need to get out more!

Weightlessness and radiation are not included, but the simulated
out-of-planet experience offers isolation, confinement, crowding, lack of
privacy, high workload, boredom with available food, and limited communication
with family, friends and mission control.

Nothing exciting, just chickens

Actually, I don't think there's anything else interesting about this story. (That could, however, be because I've been in Korea for a long time.)

The chickens belong to our neighbor/owner of the building. They are being raised on the roof I can hear them peeping and it makes me giggle everytime.

In the spring, children sometimes come home with baby chicks because people wait outside their school and sell them for the equivalent of 50 cents. And who can resist a baby chick? Not children with money in their pockets, that's for sure. Why just a few weeks ago I saw a student outside of the school down the hall from mine hanging up her clear plastic bag full of baby chick, on the bulletin board to be picked up after class.

Who am I to judge? My brother used to keep frogs in his pocket and once put on in a jar in the fridge. Dunno why, he just did.

Jae Cheol opened our apartment door today and said, "Oh! Chickens."
This is what he saw:

You may think I'm joking

There are many differences between Korea and Canada, not least of all in the education system, (don't get me started!). Here is a striking example: our new Korean teacher, pinches the children's nipples if they don't do their homework. Not sure about the girls, but definitely the boys.

I KID YOU NOT!