Day 3! This actually wasn't that exciting a day since it was our first lecture day. I won't bother putting up details of the lectures, but some of them are quite good. I also had a Korean lesson to work on learning the letters. The day ended down at the bar we all started going to. Huge pitchers for 12,000, not too bad, and they have pizza!
Day 4 was much more interesting. This was our field trip day. We started at a Buddhist temple that was outside of town a bit. It was really peaceful and beautiful. I'll link the photos as soon as I get them uploaded.
After the temple we went and cooled down a bit at the river that runs by the temple. It was interesting to watch the kids play and meet some more new people. Luckily almost everyone is wearing their nametags. After the river we went back to the busses and moved on to Hannok village. We had Bibimbap for lunch, which was really good. Then we went to our first activity; fan-making, a very popular choice just for something more substantial than our name tags to cool us off with! We got a brief education about Korean paper, then the arts and crafts began.
Once we were finished a group of us went through a wine museum, did some tasting, then went to a tea shop. That was pretty nice actually, it was AC'd and right across from the last event. I had iced pine needle tea, which was actually pretty good, if a little sweet. One guy got arrowroot, which was not. His was probably healthier though.
After a while a dance started across the street. It was some kind of traditional dance but I don't know the name. It ended up being very interactive though, and after a while there were Epik teachers beating on drums and a huge conga line stretching through the square. It was really fun and almost everyone got into it. We finished up with some group photos with the dancers and headed back to the busses.
It was a long and tiring day, but left enough time to go down to the bar for just a bit.
The next few days were filled with lectures, nothing too exciting. Besides lectures we went out to the bar or found other ways to hang out with all our new friends.
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