Our first full day in town. This is really the last town so I wanted to be sure and spend the day a little in the Tom way. The Tom way is very wasteful, I just start out the day and see what comes. Kim studied the books and I think was off to see a house museum.
Meeting and talking to a person like Minnesota is exactly what a Tom day should be full of. Unfortunately she was the only conversation. Minnesota came to Korea just a month ago to teach English. She had not just graduated from college but was recently out. The position she took did not work out. She implied that it involved her working with younger children were as she had been more used to older primary students. Anyway, she was on her own, traveling in Korea, hoping to make some money in a couple months at a Korean “break” school in Malaysia where she had worked before. But the story gets better! I talked to her a little about our 5 year old grandson who is on the spectrum and she had spent many years with a student on the spectrum. Of course I would have stayed talking all day but her bus came and off she went. It suddenly occurred to me that there was a chance my wife might still be waiting for a bus going in this direction and might join Minnesota. I texted Kim asking her to look for a western woman with a back pack who was already on her bus and ask if she was from Minnesota.
Kim reports that she kind of lost track of where the bus was going, realized that she had overshot her stop and got off at the next one, which was the high speed rail station to Seoul. A young Western woman approached her and suggested she might just have just talked to Kim’s husband about autism. Of course I was not present so all of this is hear-say. Kim asked if the man was a Hemmingway look alike and got an affirmative. Kim then asked if I had approached the woman with one of my normal wining line, are you autistic? Kim reports that at about this time she got the text from me and read it to Minnesota. The great great news is that Kim took the picture I am able to use above!
