At around 8:00 in the morning I was told to get up because we are seeing an event in DC. So I prepare and we head off, me noticing that it'll be like 90 degrees today. That will be alright, I'm used to heat. So we get there, find some lucky free parking and reach the event next to the Korean War Memorial. Seems the event was a performance by a Korean dance trope that is doing a tour around the world to thank the veterans of the Korean War, veterans from every country that participated. So here they are in America to thank us and the veterans.
So in the usual way these events are done it started with speeches from like five people as well as a pre-performance performance by some other people. And then the event finally started. And man are these performers young, all young Korean girls age 9-15 wearing traditional Korean dresses and preforming their traditional dances, which call for a drum dance that would make the movie Drumline feeble and meek. Then onto the usual ones one can expect, a fan dance, a dance about new years celebrations, a dance about spring, a dance about farmers, etc. And then at the end they decided to do something special just for us, and had an "American" dance in the sense that the bands who play our national anthem in parades is the "American" dance. Still turned out alright because they used both Korean and American flags, so a nice feeling of kinmanship there.
And then they sang, and while the song choice of America the Beautiful, Yankee Doodle and Star Spangled Banner were a little off to me as I find them somewhat lame at this point, it was refreshing to hear them in thick Korean accents that told me that the girls didn't quite grasp our language. Which was cool with me, it made the performance extra cute.
But mind you the performance was from 11-1, and we were there an hour early and left 30 minutes late. To talk about the heat would be best summed up by me picking up a water bottle halfway through to pour on myself and having it give my arm a first degree burn on top of the approaching sunburns. It was hot. But much to my joy I didn't mind it too much, and by the end it didn't feel hot at all. Odd.
But yeah, I enjoyed the performance. They went a little over-the-top with Americanism in the performance, but I was alright with it because they were doing this to every country that served in their defense.
So yeah, happy Korean War Memorial Day. Now excuse me as I cover my arms with everything possible to keep them from melting later.
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