Korea...week 3

This past Saturday... I went to YongDongPoh to have Lunch with an old family friend... when I walked out of the subway station, they were filming this... for a TV show... she is an actress of some sort...someone told me her name... but I can't even remember the names of American actors...korea actor's names are beyond my abilities~


Saturday evening, I met up with YoonKyung (the girlie who stayed at my house back in February... they took me to BaeGunLake~ it was Beautiful~

Then we went out to dinner... It was a very cute resturant up on the side of a big hill, they served very traditional Imperial style Korean Food... it was a lovely experience, and the food was very good~

Here are the Doggies again~ the mean doggie on the left is the son of the doggie who is in the picture alone on the right... the MamaDog, she likes me~

My cousin HanYoungOppa's younger son, SeungHoon- He is the happiest baby I've ever met!

Walking in the Rain

Korea...is very interesting when it rains, it doesn't seem to deter people from going out and such... at least not very much~ and you know... back in the states... in general~ everyone carries a black unbrella.... here...the umbrella's are sooo colorful~ I wish my bus had taken its time arriving at the bus stop today~ so I coulda taken some photos... but maybe next time? I'm expecting it to rain again while i'm here~
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Random photos:
Where are the trash bins in Korea? I can't ever seem to find a trashcan! I carry home all my garbage...well really I put my garbage in my bag so I can chuck it once I find a bin... but very rarely do I ever find a trash can! I really am surprised Korea isn't more polluted with the lack of garbage cans... here is a photo of the lamppost next to my bus stop... I guess people improvised a trash bin~

We all know that I'm a sucker for packaging... everything is Korea has such cute packaging!! Its sooo hard to pick something to drink... because i'm attracted to like every drink on the shelf...because it all looks sooo pretty!


these are basically all bottled tea's~ The last one on the right... was the biggest disappointment... it was a flower tea... which normally i don't mind flowery tea's but this one... was like over poweringly flowery~
Here are 2 of the 3 doggies that live here... these are the 2 that hate me... they bark at me whenever I come and go~

This is a photo I took on Friday on my way home from clinic... its the park across the street from my aunts house... this was the 1st time I saw the fountains on~

Pictures of Seung Joon... he doesn't really speak yet... he's very funny though~ he likes to back his powerwheels into his brother...who doesn't actually seem to mind~

Seung Joon and my uncle in his new favorite hat...the BeiJing 2008 olympic hat I brought him from China~

Korea... (dedicated to mr. nelson)...

Food... "Mok-jah-gol" (means alley of eating... or at least thats how I think of it) in Incheon...nearly all places to eat... if not a place to eat.. then its a karaoke place~~ Welcome to Korea~~

A Momil-Myun (noodles) place my Go-moh (aunt) took me to the 2nd day I was in Korea... there was a line at 3pm... it was good

Good ole' Mool-Nyeng-Myun (Water-Cold-Noodles)this was at the "Mok-Jal-Gol" at "Jong-Noh 4ga" (i think that means street 4- it was inbetween the "Uul-Ji-Ro 3rd and 5th subway stops on Line 1- dark blue)

The computers I used to access the internet when I'm at "clinic"- Kyung Hee University Hospital...

(Not my maple game... I stood and watched some kid play KMS for a little bit... and felt nostalgic... nothing more~ and.. hmm... who's blog was I reading...
This past Monday was a holiday- buddha's birthday~ so my cousins, their families and I took a boat ride- from Wol-mi-do, called the Cosmo's with Russian and Chinese performers... and lotsa dancing old ladies (why does my camera battery die when all the good pictures are to be had?)


Inchon Fish Market... I once had a conversation with Peter (my clinic supervisor) about Korean Markets and how they display Meat... this place reminded me of him~



Kyung Hee University Hospital, and treatment room

My Cousin- HanYoung Oppa's Kids... Seung Joon(3), Seung Hoon(8mo)
they are so cute!
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p.s- I learned how to change my slideshow (on sidebar) so strange people don't show up in it anymore! Right now... it is slidshow of my photo's from China~ hurrah! I love it!

socks

Knitting... very slowly working on socks~ using Colinette Jitterbug 4-ply finger weight yarn in Velvet Damson with stripes and toe in Velvet Plumb.

Food in China

Photobucket Album

power adaptor

YAY! my cousin found the right power adaptor for me~ and my laptop finally works! Ok~ well it was working yesterday too... but by the time the pictures were done uploading I was tooo tired to post~ so here they are! or rather here are SOME highlights! I have like 4G's of photos and video~ if your interested you'll all welcome to my home for a picture viewing party once I return!? Meanwhile... I will try to post a few now and again~ and include a little info about each?
http://picasaweb.google.com/tinnakim/China02

Today I ate Korean Pizza- it was interesting~ the toppings included ham, green peppers, olives, onions and extra cheese... it also included corn, bulgogi and sweet Yama Potato (mashed and encircling the pizza just inside the crust)...now WHY oh WHY didn't I take a picture of this!? it was... as I said... interesting

Knitting progress: after "frogging" the 1 sock I've been working onsince the begginning of this trip too many times to remember... I finally finished the 1st sock last night~ HURRAH! I cast on the second side and now intend on going upstairs to work on it for a little bit.

Tomorrow is my 1st day of Clinic here in Korea- Why do I feel nervous? I guess it has something to do with the fact that I'm worried I won't understand a Word of what is going on and people will be upset with me for it... like they were in CHINA! oye~ I don't think I'll survive if these next 5 weeks are going to be like CHINA~ pray for me!!

Korea~

I've made it to Korea~ I caught that really bad coughing-up a lung-bug everyone else in the China group was going through~ Good news~ my aunt has internet at her house! hurrah! bad news- her computer is really slow~ good news~ I brought my own laptop~ bad news~ my adapter from China doesn't WORK here! I showed her the plug and she was very confused~ we will be taking it to an electronics store tomorrow to hopefully find an adapter for it! otherwise~ I'm going to have the same 5 episodes of Numbers on my ipod for a month and a half! eww~ I'll try to post after I can figure out my computer situation~ Miss you all~
By the way~ nopes~ I wasn't on that train in CHINA! (kinda obvious now) but scary enough... we were travelling by overnight train that SAME DAY~! and of course we heard about the accident while on the TRAIN! a group member's husband texted our group leader... by the way~ i think i forgot to mention this... I left my Cell phone in new york (on purpose)~ sorry! you guys who called me and ended up chatting with my MOM!