Journey With Jean

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I'm now at Korea, posting up a blog post for some updates...

Haha... Anyways, reached here in Korea on 26th July, and let's say the airplane ride ain't that good because I was way too hungry on board and by the time I eat I was already half fainting. Haha... But everything was fine when I got down and hm... We actually had a couple of hours before the people from Mokpo comes over and pick us up, so we made s trip to the nearest temple to take a look at the surroundings. Really nice scenery actually, except that the bugs were a little noisy. What do you expect in the middle of nowhere jungle? ^^ Anyways, we made a trip there and got to know the Korean tourist guide named Nicole. Nice girl... Haha...

Then we took McD for breakfast there, and never did I know that they don't have fries in their set meals. Oh well... I had a shrimp burger for and then we went on waiting. The bus came after quite a long time, and there were other people from other countries who boarded the bus with us for this program. There are 2 guys from Spain, Moon and Michel, 2 gurls from Taiwan as well. A girl from Ukrain called Titania. Well, in the bus, UTAR was majority. Haha.. so that's how it was...

We stopped halfway for dinner at one of the rest stops. Let's say that when we look at it, I suppose a gush of shame overwhelmed us as their rest stops were very well-maintained and it was clean and nice. Hmm... no comparison am I going to make it here.. ^^ We had some stew and also sauced rice for dinner and continued our journey off to Mokpo. Hehe... On the way, I managed to capture some nice sceneries and at the same time recorded the setting of an orange flaming sun. Hoho... Nice... We reached Mokpo about 10pm Korean time and whew... really tired then. Had some games as well though. Hoho... By the way, the rooms were really high tech, specially on the door knobs or handles. Haha.. no need keys or anything anymore. Save the hassle, and it's good... HAha... Bathroom is nice as well, not bad. And I'm in the same room with a Russian name Natalyia (Read : Natashia)...

Next day, we had our breakfast, an opening ceremony and a simple orientation, then we headed down to Mokpo Town to learn the Sa Mul No Ri (사무너리), a traditional instrument play with 4 different instruments to symbolise the harmonies of the wind, clouds, thunder and lake. Well, don't quite understand that, but yea.. Haha... we played something which is easy to catch if you don't have to sing along. Haha... Then we were taught some dance which really cracked all of us up and make us rolling on the floor. The dance was more like a drama. The storyline is something like a grandma goes around looking for grandpa, and along the way found a caterpiller which made her feel itchy and she killed it, and at the end she ended up in the washroom. Haha... Funny ain't it? Haha... it is... Well, fun though. We wore the masks which are nice but really scary and after some pictures we went back to the uni. HAha...

At night we went to the supermarket to buy some stuff, and on the way back, we went to eat some fried chicken. HAha... I won't say KFC is nicer or Korean Fried Chickens are nicer, but I would say.. not bad... ^^ Haha... Then we stopped by the a stall shop on the street and bought some rice cakes for supper and also tasted some local simple street food. ^^ Quite fun... Another thing, although it is called summer, it is actually very cold here. Brrr... regrets... I have more shorts than long. HAha... Well, will live with that. ^^

Well, so far these are all we did because this is the first day of activity. SO... haha... more will come... I'll update when there's something more... HEhe...

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