Changnyeong English Village has GRASS!
For those of you in America grass doesn't seem like a big deal but here in Korea it is huge DEAL. I didn't even know grass existed here. Schools usually just have a huge dirt field out front where the students play. People don't have a "yard" with grass that I have seen and I live in the country. Everyone has a garden and weeds are everywhere but weeds and grass are so different.
Before the grass:
During The Planting:
What you see in the picture above is a team of ajimas planting little clumps of sod in the fresh soil. The process took over three months after all the rain delays and other issues that came up. They first installed a drainage system under the whole field. They then buried the system and let the soil settle. We then had our team of hard working ajima's, commanded by three guys, who planted the grass clump by clump all while taking the rocks out and putting them into little piles. That took them almost 7 days to get finished. Since then our little ajima squad has returned every so often to hand weed the grass and trim, by hand. Seem like they prefer to do things the hard way here.
Yes the yellow ribbon wraps around the whole field. We are not allowed to walk on the grass. I wonder how long we will have to wait, or if we will ever get to play on it.
