Thursday 7-18- Korean class, Calligraphy and FOOD...

Today we finished Korean class with Hannah Madeline. She teaches in Hong Kong now. We learned the two number systems; Korean and Sino-Korean. Then we went to Holt post adoption services(PAS to look at the babies and play with them. They were grateful to see the males since they only generally have female interaction throughout the day. We went in three separate groups, my group went first but, most of the babies were sleeping so... sadly I only got to play with one baby. Sadly, these babies cannot be adopted. 
Then we ate lunch... It was chicken today! :) It's a dish called "samgyetang" a ginseng chicken soup. It is very commonly eaten in the summertime. It is a chicken that is filled with rice, ginseng, jujubes, garlic, and ginger. It is closed shut and cooked in broth.
After lunch it was time to head off to calligraphy class. We learned about calligraphy by a famous calligrapher here in S. Korea, Byung In Kang.He has created designs for all sorts of products such as soju and he plans to make a statue like the Eiffel tower in Paris so that others can see the beauty of Korea.
 He gave us all gifts of a notebook and we did calligraphy on traditional Korean fans.When painting on the traditional Korean fans we were able to use different mediums such as sticks, sponges, forks, dowels, and pencils. He also wrote our Korean names on paper and signed it for us.

For the rest of the night we have free time...

Most of us went to eat pork belly for dinner and then we went to a cool stream in Seoul and we saw two statues General Lee and King Sejeong. King Sejeong is on the 10,000 dollar won and is famous for creating the Korean language/alphabet.

Some people are still out but a few of us wanted to get some sleep. Tomorrow is a big day...