Typhoon Kompusa

Last Thursday Typhoon Kompusa hit Seoul. It was supposed to hit at 3:00 in the afternoon, but it hit early at 6:00 in the morning. When I went to go running at 7:00, it looked just a little windy,

so I decided that it was safe to go. It did feel pretty windy when I was out, but it really didn't seem like anything big. I saw at least 50 trees down that morning. When I was out, some guys came by in their truck and stopped. They rolled down the window and yelled "Dangeroushi, Dangersoushi, go home!" I didn't really get it, so I just kept running. When I got home, I found out that they canceled our kindergarten program for the day. I still didn't quite get it because the storm had passed and it was sunny by 10:00. Apparently the government recomended that kindergartens close for the day and other schools start 2 hours late. The roads were pretty bad. There were guardrails accross the freeways and trees down everywhere. I went for a 50 kilometer bike ride up to Seoul that afternoon and passed houndreds of fallen trees. There were also shingles all over the place, even in places where there weren't any buildings within 100 yards or so. 5 people died in the Seoul area, including one person who near where I live, who was killed by a falling tree at about the same time that I was out running that morning....

I leave for Nepal in 13 days. I am super anxious about it. I am nervous about the actual work that we are going to do, but really excited about hiking in the middle of nowhere. We'll see how it all works out.