Korean folk village!

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Well started our trainging now, had a good day yesterday in lectures and then a mini adventure today to the korean folk village, amazing place! Its an area of Korea preserved and developed to keep a national heritage sight to how the country has developed.

Went firstly for a guided tour, huge huge place, saw all the traditional huts, trees, cooking ways, and then on to the temples and the meaning of each section which can still be seen in all the korean temples today. The crafts were all demonstrated, the fan making, basketry, the use of the impements in cooking, traditional foods explained, a huge river walk, and sculpture park and then finally to the display centre to watch the local dancing, costumes and skills.

Watched the farm dancers with ribbons attached to their heads while dancing and playing music - absolutely amazing, saw the see-saw girls (not quite like you and me Chris in Biarritz was it that summer!!!! but nearly!!) Idea is to bouce each other on feet stood on see saw so as up in air can perform tricks such as roly polys, hula hoops etc! And then of course the tightrope dancers!

Had a fantastic day, very exhausting because of the heat! so so humid and wet as well as almost 40 degrees out!

Food seems to be getting harder to eat! had my first squid yesterday! and octopus today! That i can managed however i am struggling with the fish water used to cook everything!! lol sure ill get used to it!! had hot meat and rice soup today but still it tasted on kimchi (spiced )v hot) cabbage! apparently they use the water of cabbage for broth!!! why???!!!

Back to the classroom tomorrow, but have another music event on Wednesday 😊

Please leave me comments to read they make me smile!!

miss you all, lots love cer xxxxxxxxxx

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Comments

[Chris]

Pics
Love the photos Cer. So much colour and vibrancy in the costumes. Can't wait tobe out there and experiencing it for myself! xxxxxx

[AJ]

Hey looks brill!!
Hiya, the pics are great looks really interesting, glad you enjoying it so far, hope the training goes well this week and you get used to the heat. Keep the pictures cumin they are great lots of luv xx

[heather]

wow
hey hunny, that just looks amazing!! i really wish i could have come with you!!! if me and carla don't work out you know where ill be ;) lol miss you loads xxxxx

[becca]

to say hi.
Hey cez, how is it going? Hope you are having an amazing time!! The pictures are looking great! Seems strange to think that you are actually so far away!!!

[Aunt Ang]

Chillies
Hi loved the photos of the chillies would love one of them to frame. Hows the lectures going looks like your having lots of interesting places to visit. Hope your making lots of new friends as im sure you will. Unc Pete thinks he should be out there with you as he would love it. Thought the pictures of the dancers looked great not quite as good as us when we were teaching you a bit of LINE DANCING ha ha we were'nt quite as colourful. Hope you noticed the deliberate mistake when said pup I meant pub. Well speak soon love usxxxxx Keep Happy and Enjoy

[dama]

hot off press
well, it was brilliant to be on messenger today as you were uploading these pics - definitely hot off the press!!!! Nana was well impressed. Dancers costumes are so colourful!! The river looked a bit muddy I thought - you hadn't had a bath had you?? Lovely to share this with you. Look forward to more!!! Much Love xxxxxxx

[Aunt Ang]

Good Luck
Well you must now know where your of to hope its somewhere very nice. Hope all's going well and your keeping happy. is.it still very hot out there make sure you keep plenty of sun tan cream on Uncle Pete says to tell you to enjoy and remember what he told you in the card. well good luck with the move look fotward to seeing lots more pictures lots of love xxxxxx

[Catherine]

great info!
HI, I am investigating where to visit when in Korea for a few days in Feb. Your writing and photos are very interesting and really help to paint a picture of South Korea. Thanks! Catherine