Saturday, March 20, 2010

9:22
Relaxin'
Today was pretty short actually.  Okay, doing things in order this time *ahem*
At noon, we all met in the lobby and headed out for lunch.  A little small shop around the corner (and down an alley and up a hill).  There we had duck.  Grill it yourself duck.  With honey mustard dipping sauce.  
Ourhghga~ it was good
Also a girl that used to go to Kennesaw came by.  Apparently she was adopted from Korea by an American family, then when she graduated, she came over here to look for her parents (no luck).  She's written two books already.  She talked about how she'd stick with us today, but has to have dinner with her fiancee's family.  But they don't like her because she's strong willed, makes more money than their son, and is older than him too.
Pile in the bus and off we go!   Now, at lunch, she told me about 'the largest electronics market in SE Asia', so obviously I was listening closely.  Then planned to go there while they went to the National Museum (no-one felt like going to the war museum today).  But we had to all meet back up at 3 to go off to the next thing... and didn't even get to the museum until 1:50.  So by the time I got on the train, rode it down there and found it... I probably would only have about 5 minutes.  :\
So I said hell with it and killed time in the museum instead.
Wandered the giftshops.. didn't buy anything.
Wandered the exibites, only saw one really neat thing.
Then again, I only got to see less than 1/6th of the content (3 floors with two sections on each).
Load the bus and we... sit in rush hour for an hour.
Finally arrive at the Traditional Korean Music Center, where  we saw a series of performances of ancient Korean music, with the zither, flutes, bow and strings and dancing.
And the whole time I just wanted to kick my legs out.  The chairs were made for Korean legs.  So even fully sitting in the chair as far back as possible, my knees were flush against the hard wood of the chair in front of me.  There were a bunch of middle school students there too.  One was listening to his mp3 player, another two were watching tv on one's cellphone, and a number (like the 5 year olds behind me... and TJ and Ginny) were asleep.  
Yes, I would've slept too if not for my knees being on fire
Then to the Instrument Museum across the garden.  But... when we walked outside, something seemed... off.
The sky.. was brown.  Made us think of the 'when the skies in GA turn green, tornadoes abound' idea.
So we go in and check the instruments out.  One of the ones that was most interesting to everyone in our group was a set of stone chimes.  L-shaped blocks of stone hanging by string.  And when you strike them.. they sound just like bells o.o    Cool!
Once we headed back outside for dinner... the sky was much, much more brown.  John said it's from the sand in the Gobi blowing in.  I don't know if it's true or not, but sounds right enough to me.  That and all the people in masks helped seal it as fact.
Dinner was... you guessed it, bulbogi... again.
It's good... but damn am I sick of beef.  I guess that filled up my queue for the past decade or so.  Blech
I think a number of them went out to do more kareoke with the girls (forgot to mention it's a number of performers from Haneu University music department tonight).
My eyes are killing me today (i blame the 'sand'?), so I just packed up almost all my stuff and now... mm.. I don't know.  Go to bed most likely.  Take a morning shower and check out around 7am
Then, be home by noon. 
Azn tech.  phear it

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