Sunday, April 17, 2011

April is half over?!?

 Friday:
The weather was pretty nice! It was partly sunny, but it was warm and actually a little humid. 

Music class was nice...Director Kim wasn't there, so Jihye retaught us the song from last week. We had class for about 30 minutes! :) After class, we ordered our hanboks. This is the one I chose; it is a very contemporary style!
http://www.assimall.co.kr/home/assimall/mall.php?cat=0202&q=view&uid=1541

Emily and I went for another run. I am back to my non-running mood. We followed our route from Thursday except we did not go into the cafes. The writing class went alright, but I felt sooo sleepy! Maren, Emily and I went to Tous Les Jours and Coffee House after class. (Of course I bought more 'cloud bread'!!) Maren wanted to go for a mountain hike, so we explored the mountain behind BioTech Dorm. It took us about 30 minutes to get to the top (we did stop to take a lot of pictures along the way). It was almost more difficult coming down the mountain than going up-it was steep and a little slick. We went to a Makgoli restaurant and also ordered kimchi cheon. Then we went to Lotteria for ice cream. Emily returned from her evening in Pusan with MiHye, her host 'family'. She had kimbap for me-it was delicious!! 

Mountain Hiking with Maren


Tim pouring Makgoli

Yummy Kimchi Cheon

 Today:
SOCCER!! We had a group of 12 (still the only girl-even though we had some girls sign up on the whiteboard in the foyer of ET-none of them showed up!) and played on part of half of the regular field. Around 12:20, another group of guys walked onto the field and told us they had signed up for the next time slot. We decided to ask them if they wanted to play against us; they agreed so we were able to use the "whole" half of the field. We ended up playing for about an hour and finally they scored a goal. We called it quits then. Tim and I were going to go into town to find something for lunch, but walked past the 'teacher's lounge' cafeteria. It was still open so we were able to use our meal tickets. At first we just had some ramen soup and thought it was kind of strange that was all they were serving. Then we noticed the other person in the cafeteria had a little box on his tray and also noticed a stack of boxes where we picked up our soup. I grabbed boxes for us-inside was rice, seaweed, kimchi, radish, egg and ham! It was pretty good. 

We had a small group decide to go to the Gaya Culture Festival going on in Gimhae not too far from campus. We watched some dancing and then walked around to look at all the different booths set up. Then some of the group returned to ET and the rest of us went to the Super Home Plus for dinner. Emily and I split 'ddeok mandu guk". (Mandu soup with rice cakes) Emily, Tim and I were going to see a Korean movie with Jenny so we left and walked around Yeonji Park (right next to Home Plus and the movie theater). We went to see a Korean movie called "Strange Meeting for Marriage" or "위험한상견레". There were no English subtitles, so it was a little bit different watching a movie and not being able to absolutely follow the dialogue. It was really funny though. 

Performers at Gaya Festival

Area around Gaya Festival

Emily and Tim on exercise machines in Yeonji Park

At the movies! Cheese Popcorn and Iced Tea Combo!!

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