I don't have a whole lot of time to talk about our trip to Seoul, but I want to get this down before I forget to entirely. We went out to opening ceremonies yesterday, which was pretty cool. The videos they showed us and the presentations were very interesting. I wish I had had the foresight to charge my video camera, so lesser quality videos were taken.

The TaeKwonDo demonstration was very impressive. I never thought of TKD being so active. It made me really proud of my little brother, who has been doing it for years and got his blackbelt.

Our trip to Seoul was a scavenger hunt where we had to take a designated path and get pictures with landmarks. We didn't have as much time to explore even our own route, which would have been nice, but it was still fun.

Even though we ate dinner at Macdonalds we had a lot of interesting streetfood. Honeyskeins, ricecakes, some sort of flat & fried sweet bread...one of my groupmates even tried a silkworm. She asked for a mint and said it tasted like a squishy peanut.



I hope to go back to Seoul next weekend. A lot of people are going this weekend, but I want to wait. Seoul tried to kill me via a decorative channel in the sidewalk, which I tripped and fell on. Twisted ankles do not make you want to go walking around. I do want to try to go into Jochiwan tonight and hopefully see what the local city is like. Hopefully that Family Mart will have an adapter for my electricity...

Comments (2)

On February 9, 2011 at 8:44 PM , microe Musings - contemplating today's world. said...

And the significance of the finger on the nose? Hey clumsy, don't be tripping over the cracks in the sidewalks! Hope the ankles are feeling better.

 
On February 10, 2011 at 3:44 AM , Becky said...

It wasn't a crack, it was an intentionally crafted ... dip?

https://picasaweb.google.com/orahlith/Korea2011Feb?authkey=Gv1sRgCK_Wo6b1x_DTYw#5572024399714192162

That thing on the ground with the lights lining it...I stepped into it and twisted my ankle and proceeded to fall.

We were being silly. One of the girls wanted to do a different thing with fingers up for the station number we were at but we only did it for the first station. Too distracted by all the cool stuff in Seoul.