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why are all the windows open?

So fashion can fly out! 

Yesterday I learned all about “indoor shoes” at school.  Koreans always take off their shoes when they enter a home or a traditional resturant.  We are also required to remove our shoes at the entrance of the school and change into “indoor shoes” (slippers). It’s quite a nice look when you are wearing a suit.  I am no longer too concerned about the fashions.

It was snowing and raining this morning when my co-teacher came to walk with me to school.  Because there are no street signs to follow and she was concerned I would get lost, we made the 30 minute trek together.  

When we got to the school, the boys were busy mopping the floors ~ I thought it was because some mud and snow had been tracked in, but that didn’t make sense with the “indoor shoe” rule.   During the lunch hour, the boys were again busy mopping the floors.  Everyone was wearing their winter jackets, because it was about 0 degrees in the building, because all the windows were open (perhaps to dry the wet floors?)   

At the end of the day, more mopping and general cleaning ~ and the windows were all still open when I left for the day.   

Hmmm … I just don’t know quite what to make of it. 

Why are the windows always open?  I think it is so fashion can fly out the window. 

 Tomorrow ~ many layers of warm clothes.  And some warm slippers.



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