8:11
Phew, long day.
Where to start..? Hm..
Oh. Right. The start. Dur.
So the bus (in all it's shock-less glory) showed up at exactly 9:10. That's saying something for Asian punctuality alright..
So off we go on an hour ride to sight-see in a small(er) coastal town.
I wish I'd brought the laptop with me, I know I'm forgetting a bunch of stuff when I have to look at my pictures just to remember what we did.
First up was a museum dedicated to a local poet, Cheongma. I dont' know his works, and didn't learn any of them while there, since... you know.. all in Korean.
Then walked further up the hill to a recreation of the house he was born and raised in (back in 1901). It was pretty interesting, hay-thatch roof, mud and stone wall, all that stuff. Kinda funny that the whole time in both those places I was thinking more about the project I'm going to make with it all. I've got a few ideas now actually, so it should come together pretty nicely.
Drove down the coast a bit to this amazing park area on the cliffside. There were volunteers out picking weeds on the hills, and even a few scuba divers. We asked and were told that they're almost always women who dive for very expensive shells (clam, muscles, oysters, etc).
Next up, Statue Garden. Apparently artists from all over the world made works for or donated them to this massive hillside. There were the usual bizarre surrealist pieces with titles and descriptions that more sense in Korean than English.
Back on the bus and across the port to a 'famous restaurant for fisherman food'. Turns out it'd been on TV once or twice. And all they serve is a plate of rice-rolls and spicey fishcakes, squid and radishes. Oh, and a bowl of seaweed soup. That's. It. They bring you a platter of those each time. Meeeeeh
Like I said, reeeeeeal tired of spice.
10:52
Got distracted and forgot all about finishing this post haha
Oh! After lunch I bought my first item in Korea! A set of three little Korean-style Little Debbie bars. 3000 won. I feel like such a consumer whore now =D
Then we went across the street to look at a replica Turtle Boat, which has an armored roof and other innovations that helped win (one of) the war against the Japanese. The floors inside were almost caked in.. what we can only guess was wax. A miricale none of us fell on our asses.
Ugh.. I'm really tired now and barely covered a third of the day..
Tonight's the last night in the hotel, we check out at 9:30.. so I guess I'll kinda-pack my stuff and take a bath in the morning.
Then write about all this while riding to the temple we'll be staying at.
Remind me to write about the following:
Trolly cars
mountain snow
Music museum
Local museum
Old lady grave
Fishing Tech museum
dinner
Oh! I guess I'll write this part here though. While at lunch yesterday, the driver told me to eat a pepper with some of the red chili sauce. Turns out it wasnt' actually hot. Kinda sweet. So today I thought I'd have one of those again. So I dipped it and ate the whole thing in one bite. Moments later I realized something had gone horribly... horribly wrong. Turns out it wasn't the sweet pepper.. but a habenaro. Yeah.. whole thing. One bite.
If I'd been in the bathroom, I'd be drooling like mad as my mouth, eyes and even nose all watered. And of course, since Koreans fugging suck, there was NO bread of any sort. Not a single sweet thing. No milk. Only water (which I had to find myself only a few minutes before). The guide suggested I eat one of the lettuce leaves there.. and that helped just a hair. But all I could do was drink and drink and drink. Swish the water around and drink. I ended up drinking over a litre of water in the span of 5 minutes. (god did I regret that on the ride back home..)
As I'm near-choking, Kim looks at me like i'm an idiot, "Koreans never eat those, too hot. They bigger than the sweet ones. Koreans can tell the diffrence between them."
"Do I LOOK Korean!?" I manage between gulps of water.
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You poooor non korean american xD!
ReplyDeleteTired of spices and you still have more than a week to go. Imaging how tired you are of it after two weeks. You'll be longing for patatoes by then!
Anyway next time you eat something hot and you dont have milk...scoop rice in your mouth. Its one of the reasons we eat rice with everything...or just use soup..That helped when I scooped up to much wasabi xD
And dont eat silly looking peppers..you should know better than that!