I've got a 5 day weekend now because of one of the biggest holidays in Korea, Chuseok. The American equivalent to Chuseok would be Thanksgivinng. Everyone travels to see their family and has huge meals. At school on Friday, every single kid, and I mean every single one of them dressed up in traditional Korean clothing called Hanbo. It is some of the most colorful clothing I've ever seen, and I got to take pictures with many of the kids in their traditional clothes. We played traditional Korean games, had a tea ceremony, and I got explain the history of traditional Korean masks. It was a lot of fun.
I just got back from a two day trip to Busan, which is aboutt 5 hours away from Seoul, on the opposite side of the country. I went with my good friend from New Zealand Ivan, and it was great to just see the country side of Korea and a different city as well.
This is in Seoul Station, where we caught the KTX trainn to go to Seoul. It was a very nice train, and the seating made me feel like I was back on an airplane. I read an entire book on the train their and bus back called "teusdays with Morrie." A very very good book, that I'd definitely recommend to anyone. That's also probably the fastest I've ever read a book (with maybe the exception of Jayber Crow).
This is a picture I took from the train. Most of South Korea is mainly mountains, but also a ton of farmland as well. It reminded me of my trips from Philly to Pittsburgh.
When we first got to Busan, we had pretty cool view of the mountains in the background. Unfortunately for the first half of the trip, I was having digestion troubles from some very spicy chicken from the night before. Eventually, the pain subsided though, and I had a great time.
We first went to a place in Busan called Haeundae, where we went to a beach that was pretty cool. Unfortunately it was so windy that it was like a sandstorm there.
Then we went down to city hall where we ate a Vietnamese place. It was really nice food, prolly the best I've had in Korea so far, but it was haha, a little more expensive than we thought.So now I'm back in Seoul and we've got 3 more days of vacation woot!!
2 comments:
have you and samuel vanderplas gotten together at all? you know he's in korea... right? i don't know where in korea though.
Keep up with the updates... especially the pictures. i'm loving it!
Hey Mark, how are things?
Did you get a chance to find the church that Pastor Chi recommended?
I read Tuesdays w/ Morrie too, good book - this was when I had time to read a book.
Busan is cool (my father's side of the family is from there). Great seafood and beautiful beaches.
Kinda ironic that your favorite/best food so far was vietnamese food.
anyway, hope all is well and it sounds like you're having a great time.
God Bless,
JT
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