Umbrellas and Co-operation

There are two things that I have noticed over the time I have been here and I've finally decided to make a post on them.

First everybody has an umbrella in Korea, it's really strange to see, being from England.  We get a lot of rain at home and yet many of us do not use umbrellas for whatever reason.  I my self do not use them because generally they just keep your head dry and I happen to like rain, so they are very little use to me.

Secondly Koreans seem to co-operate fairly well, now this may be less true for the adults, but most of my examples are based upon observing the kids. For instance in the rain if someone for some reason does not have an umbrella, the kids with one will offer the other side of theirs to anyone without.  Another example would be that when there was snow on the ground just the other day the kids were having snowball fights, but once it was done with some of the kids shook hands to agree that the fight and argument was over with.  It's interesting watching things like this, I guess because in the UK things are more distant.

The kids at this school may in general be fairly bad with their English for whatever reason, but they do impress me in other walks of life.  I cannot communicate with them well, but their kindly actions to one another do speak volumes.