Saturday, May 5th, I visited the island of Geoje with Sara and new friends Fatih from Turkey and Liz from Boston to attend 2012 Geoje World Shipbuilding and Marine Festival. This festival purposefully coincided with Children's Day. Geoje is an island about 30 minutes away from Tongyeong. It houses more foreigners, so there is more foreign food to be found. For instance, the group and I ate at Quizno's. Also, thanks to Fatih, I now know that Geoje has two of the largest shipyards in the world. After eating at Quizno's, we walked around the festival and saw the different arts and crafts that people could buy. In the video, I show you how soap was being hand made. There was also handmade jewelry, pottery, and paper products. The booth that you see Fatih at was a man serving Turkish ice-cream. It was a mix of chocolate and strawberry flavors and tasted great! We walked around the festival more and saw the different types of boats and ships Korea has to offer. Ironically enough, on the opera ship that you see us entering, they were playing Titanic music! In fact, we heard "My heart will go on" there and at the Turkish restaurant we ate at. I don't know how that is supposed to make us want to explore the boats and ships, but I digress. Within the opera ship, we saw Korean style paintings of different landscapes, people, and so forth that South Korea has to offer. On the opera stage, the kids were in a contest to see which group could finish their watermelon's first in the time limit. I didn't realize this until after I stopped filming! We explored more boats and ships, some being occupied by navy cadets, before heading out to the Turkish restaurant that I mentioned earlier. We then came back to the festival to listen to the rock concert. Fatih and I liked the concert, but Liz and Sara didn't care too much for it. Unfortunately, we had to miss the fireworks and DJ festival! Still, I had a great time hanging out and I think they did too. I recorded some of the experience for you to view below.
Nice! Ya the night life looks pretty awesome there! Even though I couldn't understand the words in the rock concert the guitarist was a beast! Keep the updates coming bro!
ReplyDeleteYou and that name...lol. Yea I enjoyed the concert because it was different. I'll keep uploading for sure! I want to do a movie theater, but that will be tricky since cameras (of course) aren't allowed....
DeleteNice video editing and background music in the video. :) I tagged you today in my most recent post at: http://transatlanticdinnertable.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/we-interrupt-our-regularly-scheduled.html
ReplyDeleteHow are classes? Have you started teaching yet? What is your impression of the society so far? Culture shock is a long process, so be patient. It will be great, get worse, be horrible, get tolerable, and then you'll decide you can't live without it.
Thanks! I'll read the post. Classes are going well. Some of the kids are really bright, some have a basic understanding of English, some are goofballs, and some are troublemakers. I have a good mix, lol. I like the society a lot. It's a big change from America for sure. I've already been told about the "phases", but I think I'll be alright. :)
DeleteHey, don't be jealous of my name pimpin' SWAG! lol
ReplyDeleteIm gald u talked much more in this video then the first. U more then tripled the number of words lol. but on a serious note man from the looks of it, i think i would really love korea. How they had all those kids prayin on the stage not ashamed of the faith. And the singer at the end sung my favorite korean song. I was singin along to all the words "chimmy chan chimmy chooooo che chan chop." Man I love it!
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