Movies and Cameras

Today we decided to take in a cheap movie and see Madagascar 3.  As with the other few movies we have seen here, since it was made in America we automatically assumed it would be in English with Korean subtitles.  Although since it's a children's movie that doesn't make much sense since most of the young kids there wouldn't be able to read the subtitles right?  Yeah we didn't think of that before we went.  So needless to say we watched the whole movie dubbed over in Korean.  However, even though we could only understand a very limited amount of the words and phrases the characters were actually saying, we were able to understand what was happening throughout the entire movie.  It's pretty amazing when you realize that a spoken language is really only a small form of the many ways people, and even cartoon animals, can communicate.  Between the few spoken things we understood, their tone, body language and other actions we were able to get the gist of the movie and still found it pretty funny too (though I bet it would be even funnier in English so now we have to see if we can find it somewhere). 

We also bought a new lens for our camera today!!  It's something we had been contemplating over for a while and finally decided on the one we would both be happy with.  Now instead of carrying two lenses  around with the camera bag and switching back and forth depending on how wide or far we want the shot, we only have to carry one lens that can do it all!  We of course needed to play with the new lens right away so started to head towards a park.  Of course we didn't get too many pictures taken before the battery died...  And that whole thing about not having to carry the camera bag with two lenses anymore meant that we had no extra battery.  However we did have a good opportunity to test out the new lens when we got home.  Apparently there is a fire on one of the mountains near our apartment.  We had seen the large amount of smoke and helicopters dropping water from a distance when we were out earlier.  When we got home we noticed how the helicopters would drop the water and then fly close to the river right outside our apartment window, fill up with the river water and head back towards the mountain.  There is definitely less black smoke coming from the mountain now but we are still watching many helicopters fill up in the Han River from our apartment window.

 This was a view we saw from a park earlier this evening

 

Eric took these pictures from the roof of our apartment building.