Tuesday, July 14, 2009

A Perfect (Korean) Beach Day

The forecasts last Sunday called for Thunderstorms, rain at best. Megan's favorite middle school student (Jackie) invited the two of us to Mosageum beach, 2PM. We headed out at a quarter two with bleak hopes. We arrived to a full beach for a cloudy day, and I with my low expectations.

The students arrived from the Hagwon a bit late, and we could already tell it was going to be an exciting adventure, Rain or Shine (well, not so much shine!). We didn't bring any swimwear, because we hadn't planned to swim. About 30 seconds after the boys got off the bus, I could tell that was a bad choice. It only took about a minute for the first girl to be dragged into the water and tossed down... She was NOT too happy!



We started the time off with a traditional Korean game. A large circle is draw in the sand, one side cut in half, and the other cut in 1/4. These represent each of the original Korean kingdoms, Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla. Basically you just needed to knock everyone out of their kingdoms, but it was pretty fun. It ended up being a showdown between myself and two small girls, they put up a good fight!



Next, it came time to randomly try to throw people in. I ended up getting soaked, but only because I got to throw three students into the water. It was a lot of fun to take out some aggression!! Even Megan got pulled in by the students, she wasn't too happy.



In the end, we had to leave early and miss a trip to the Noraebang, to go eat dinner at Jeff's. It was a fantastic home-made sam-gyup-sal meal from Hyegyong. It was so great to see Sara and Hana again. Sara can speak English amazingly now, and Hana is as smart as ever, starting to count by 10's, add, and everything! I think Megan and I will miss them the most! We'll miss you too Jeff, HG and all of our friends of course!

Here is the full picture album, plus our going away lunch!

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