"Shhh! Be Quiet, please."

This is one of the phrases that we teach our students. It’s part of the curriculum and every student at the Red level learns it. Unfortunately, the construction workers outside our apartment don’t seem to be familiar with the phrase…

Yesterday morning Amanda and I were woken up at 7:30 from the workers across the street banging and clanging huge conduit pipes around for the construction of the new building. We also listened to our neighbors above us make continuous banging noises as if they were simultaneously rearranging all their furniture and playing Dance-Dance-Revolution at the same time. As we went to bed last night we were again serenaded by the furniture-moving-DDR combination. This morning, again at 7:30 the construction workers across the street were at it, building the form-work for the new building. Then, after trying to muster a little more sleep, at 8:30 our apartment shook from the noise of a jackhammer ripping up the street just outside our apartment. Lovely. Along with the jackhammer came the utility workers with an asphalt saw and large truck-mounted generators.

So, in total we now have an orchestra of furniture-moving, DDR playing neighbors above us, a restaurant moving in below us, the construction of a new building next to us, and utility and street repairs just outside our windows. Needless to say, it was not a happy morning.

Here’s a taste of the noise:

Noisy Korea from Andrew Tisue on Vimeo.