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Published: March 1st 2009
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I travel almost 10,000 miles away from home and who do I spend my time traveling with? American's and....the french! ha ha. I realized I will leave Korea speaking much better french and a little korean.
We left at noon just planning to explore and walk around Seoul. I went hoping to do some shopping. After waiting around for a while for stragglers we were waiting to meet to arrive, we exchanged introductions and headed on our way. We were a group of seven. Everyone was hungry and nobody was decisive. Leah (from Paris, living in Montreal) and I were the decisive ones. While everyone else ate (in just a little coffee shop) we decided to hit a traditional Korean Village, and I wanted to go to the Seoul Tower... to get a 360 view of the city, like i did in Paris with the Arc de Triumph, in London at the Cathedral, and in Budapest at that big church. I wanted to add another city in another country to my list.
We took the subway to the Korean Village. There was this really traditional looking Korean house. We went inside and there was a wedding going on, so
we couldn't see anything. They said we could look around outside but the only things outside was a construction site. It was kind of upsetting. So we kept walking down the street and there's this HUGE wooden entrance to Korean Village. (hmm... sounds familiar. Chris was stationed at Camp Korean Village in Iraq last year) There wasn't much exciting there though. Just a lot of Korean houses and buildings. They had some traditional games set up. We walked around there for a little while. It's starting tog et warmer out. It was almost 50 today so i walked around for a while with my jacket off. It was cool but the sun made it so warm.
We could see the Seoul Tower in the distance, but it was behind the mountain so we weren't sure how to get there so we just started walking towards it. There was a cool walking/running path that winded up the mountain. It looked like a track up the mountain, which was pretty cool. We were walking for a mile or so and we saw a cable car which took us a lot higher up over the mountain than we were. So we got
round trip tickets for 7500kw. It was cool we were so high over the city... taller than every one of the skyscrapers. On the top of the mountain when we got off the cable car we watched a Traditional Korean show or some kind. It was actually pretty boring. Just a bunch of guys jumping around with Swords for an hour.
After that we went to the top of the tower. It was 479 meters above seoul. And the tower sat on top of a mountain. So the skyscrapers looked like teenie-tiny little building blocks or something. The city stretched on forever. There were mountains in the distance and you could see tall buildings stretching through them. I think the border is 40km from where we were. So I'd like to say I saw North Korea from up there, but i'm not sure if i did or not. It was a 360 degree view of the city. On every window there was a city that you were facing the direction of and hwo far away it was. New York City was over 11,000km away. Wow. Nothing like being on the other side of the world. When Chris goes to
Afghanistan he will be 5000km closer to me than he was in the United States...he can't come visit me but at least he's trying to get closer <3
After all that we just made our way back to campus because it was getting cold and we were tired. But so ended a good adventurous day.
P.S> i will be putting pictures up just as soon as my computer lets me.
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Laura
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pounding rice
What the heck... would never have figured that it was a pile of rice. Then it what... becomes flour?... Keep the videos coming. This is awesome.