This will be the chronicle of my very large adventure teaching in English in South Korea from February-July 2012. I will be keeping this blog primarily to reflect on my teaching and on special events that happen. I will continue to update my current blog, The Adventures of an Unemployed College Grad, on a daily basis, with small and large adventures alike (in the same way that I have since the beginning). Please feel free to enjoy both! I will try not to repeat between the two :)
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Tower Tall (Feb 19)
Nam San Tower was the order of the day. We all got a nice nap on the bus ride into Seoul - and then basically got dropped off at the bottom of the hill that the tower is on and were told "Go and be back at 2 pm!" We had no idea where we were headed! And there was literally ONE person in our group of 50 who knew which direction to go. Luckily, it was a pretty straightforward walk. And by "straightforward", I mean metaphorically - it was a REALLY steep walk. But we made it.
Honestly, one of my main reasons for going to the Tower today was to find the place where Jun Pyo waits for Jan Di...#notaddicted. I didn't come across it (I don't even know if they actually filmed it there), but I had fun imagining that GJP waited on the stairs for her thinking about how far Jan Di had to walk to get up there.
I ate a cheeseburger! I've been wanting one for a few days. It was small, but pretty yummy - and is apparently the Best Burger in Seoul.
Also, there was a Coldstone! And most of us got ice cream, despite the freezing temperatures. Our Kiwi friends had never heard of Coldstone, let alone eaten it before, and they were totally amazed by it. How they made it, how it tasted. Also, Chris tried to test his Korean and ended up ordering 2...oops.
We had a little extra time, so we ended up playing some games with Sehee and Rachel (some of the Korean Group Coordinators - KGCs) and some other scholars. It was really fun just spending time with people :)
We got to be a part of a guy's proposal to his girlfriend! Not completely - he was going around the tower getting people to write messages to his gf on a dry erase board. Then he would take pictures of the people and their messages and I assume he's going to put it into a collage. So cute!
The Love Locks were amazing! Millions of people take their significant others to the Tower and "lock in" their love by attaching a lock to the fences or the designated trees (some people sneak a few elsewhere). It's cheesy and kind of makes a single girl want to vomit (esp. when she's with friends that happen to be an adorable couple) but it's also really cool.
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