Team building?

Yes, I just published a post two and a half minutes ago. But right after clicking the "publish post" button, I remembered something from yesterday. It's more fitting, anyway, since this is an interesting Korea story and not something ordinary that makes me happy.

I asked a student yesterday what he did over the weekend, and he said he went hiking. I pressed for more details, and it was revealed to me that this was a business hiking trip. He and 40 colleagues (I asked him like 5 times if he meant "14" and not "40" because I couldn't really believe it) got on a bus to go to a mountain 5 hours away. They spent the night in a hotel, then got up at 5 in the morning so that they'd get to the top of the mountain by 7, which is sunrise. He showed me a picture on his cell phone. It was very grey, snowy, desolate. Probably much more stunning in real life. And then they all went back down for the 5 hour bus ride home.

When I asked him why they went on this trip, all I could get out of the student was "team building," but I'm not sure if he was only echoing my prompt: "So why do you go on trips with your colleagues? Is it for bonding? Team building?"

How wacky.