Never Mind...

OK, skip that about not getting a hangover with hite. Apparently it can happen! Last night was a total blast and definitely worth the consequences. We started out with a party in the teacher's lounge. We had the usual snacks, but the principle bought Bamboo Wine too! It was the coolest thing. The "bottle" was a section of bamboo about the size of a regular wine bottle. It had a hole in the middle, and out poured this blueish-green liquid! It didn't taste that great, and was pretty strong, but was really cool to try. Then we hit the norae bang for some karaoke. Oh my. A great time was had by all. We sang a lot of the songs that we did for the elementary camp: Uptown Girl, Dancing Queen, I want it that way, etc. What a blast. Then we came back, and hung out on the picnic tables outside the dorm for a while longer. We whispered, because the principal was asleep within earshot.

And this morning, after three hours of sleep, we got up for camp! Today was field trip day though, so at least we didn't have to teach. Today was a lot of fun. First we walked through a Korean Garden, which I think didn't exactly turn out as planned. The busses dropped us off on a country road somewhere, and we walked up another road to a little pagoda. It wasn't especially beautiful to look at, no manicured gardens or anything. It kind of seemed like we were in someone's back yard (?). Then we went to a literature museum. We watched a film on the poets and novelists of the region. It was a great film. I watched it twice! The highlights were that it was in a dark air conditioned room...and we could sleep. Haha.

After that we had lunch at this tourist hotel that served a "western style" meal. It was a weirdly sweet potato soup, and a pork cutlet, salad, rice and a few french fries. And it wasn't good. Oh well. Next we went to a Folk Museum, where exhibits showed how the ancient koreans lived. We finished off with a trip to the Bamboo Forest right by the campus, which was great.

All in all it was a pretty relaxing day. Some people from our group went to the local jim jil bang, the sauna/spa place. And now I'm going to bed early. Only four more days of camp left!!!!


Typical set up for a teacher's party; one of the volunteers.

Hite and squid jerky...mmm!

The bamboo wine!

Out comes the green liquid.

Kathryn and Karolina at the no rae bang.

Super fun no rae bang!

The gardens at the literature museum were really beautiful. It was a beautiful day with blue skies and fluffy white clouds.

Some of my students at the "western-style" lunch.

Me and a few other girls at the lunch. Peace!

Yes, she's praying to a stone that looks like a penis. We learned at the Korean Folk Museum that ancient women did this, in hopes of having a male baby. Indeed!