We all have to sign up for a cultural activity for this program. I wanted cooking so I could cook something better than Chris, but unfortunately that was booked by the time we applied for the school. Instead, we got Samulnori. I guess this is good. The other option was Tae Kwon Do, and I'm sure that this would not have ended well.
We had an hour break, so we ate at the cafeteria. Bibimbap for under 3k won(somewhere in the $2.50-3.00 range). Amazing stuff. Still loving the cheap Korean food. That money in Europe might have bought us fries.
We met after lunch to go to the studio for the class. Samulnori is traditional Korean folk drumming. We used to do it back when Mia did Korean dancing. It's a lot of fun. Our professor explained the history of it. It was in Korean, but because there were so many n00bs in the class, he did a lot of miming. Good miming at that.
Our lesson for the day was on how to play the Janggu, which is the hour glass drum and my favorite one to play. Mia very correctly noted that the moment we all got our drums, the class's collective mentalities plummetted. Everyone started banging away at their drums. There were a few people who actually had some rythym, but those were a very small minority. It was a fun class though. I imagine that this drumming would be a good source of stress relief, but I don't know how well Chabba's going to take to that new-found hobby next year.
We were supposed to meet everyone else (who spent their day at the Namdaemun Market) at the mall in World Cup Stadium after class. Our Samulnori class left us in some weird area, so we had to kind of improvise and ended up on the same bus that we had been on the day before. Now that we knew how to transfer, we figured it wouldn't be as bad this time around. That was until we realized that Mia didn't have money left on her card after the first bus trip. Instead of just paying cash on the bus, we thought that maybe we'd walk to the nearest convenience store and recharge her card. This led us to some great adventure, where we at some point were even like pushing our way through bushes to get to the street. Yeah, it was interesting. Along the way, we found some pretty epic exercise machines. Makes me want to get stranded at that stop again to go play with them again.
We eventually thought that we'd maybe walk to World Cup Stadium. By that time, it was past 4:30 (our meeting time). Umma called us asking us where we were. It's a good thing she did because she ended up telling us to take the bus. The walk would have been hella far otherwise.
We eventully did make it to World Cup Stadium. I could go into the background of the stadium, but I think the name is pretty self explanatory.
The cool thing about the stadum is that there is a big mall and a market under it. They've got some Hollywood-style cement imprints of various Korean/Asian stars near the movie theater there. We learned that our hands are very similar to Yunjin Kim's (Sun from Lost).
And Zhang Ziyi has amazingly small hands.
We went to the big supermarket for dinner and then went back so I could finish my OCI stuff. That's pretty much what I did for the rest of the night, but I took a break to force my siblings to go to the gym. Trying to think if anything else substantial happened that day. The highlight was being done with the bidding process. Next, I wait and hope for interviews.
I'm done with updates for the day. It's one and I think we're going to the folk village tomorrow. I'll post about today and tomorrow tomorrow. That sounds awkward...
I leave you with angst.
Oh! Oh! Speaking of teen angst, guess what's playing in Seoul right now....
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