Sorry it's been so long since an update-- as I've broken my foot, I can't go anywhere... thus no new and interesting things have happened to me. Blech. I did go on a faculty retreat this past weekend to Taechon, South Korea to our school's BEACH house!! Nice!! There was a lodge there and I truly felt like I was back home, camping, and having a good 'ole Girl scout-y time :) I couldn't go down to the beach b.c. then I'd get sand in my cast and blech about that... I also couldn't go to the campfire b.c. you had to walk up this huge hill that- well- I mean I have a cast on my foot, so obviously I wasn't going to be able to do that... but, luckily I had some friends that stayed around the lodge area and hung out and played games with me! :) Nice friends!
Now- one thing I DID notice was that even though the beach was like 2.5 hours away- it took us 5 hours to get there!!! I thought, "ok.. is this some holiday I'm unaware of?!?" NO... it's simply a Korean weekend!!! lol. The way it was explained to me was: The Koreans work all week long, so on the weekends they like to get into their cars and go somewhere... even if it's just to sit on the highway with all the other Koreans and never really have any time at a destination.
Lol.. I mean, I got to the beach house/lodge 2 hours AFTER the retreat part ended! lol... then on Sun. when we went to leave... another 5 hours to get home!! If anything, I learned to not buy a car, to not travel via car or bus anywhere throughout Korea, and to not plan on getting anywhere on time! lol.
Also, Korean rest stops are like mini-malls... there's stalls that sells things like pottery and stuff... there's a convenient store but then also a food court like thing (like in our malls) and then of course there's the outside food stalls that sell the Korean food like potato balls, octopus, kimchi, etc.. Quite interesting.
I have 12 days left until my cast comes off!!! Thank God!! then I get to go to Taiwan for Chuseok and def. have some more updates :)
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