Full Sunday

This afternoon I traveled across town to the college area of "Hongdae". (There are at least 5 big schools over there: Hongik University, Ewha Women's University, Sogang University and Yonsei) I went to a GOAL forum. It was nice to recenter myself a bit and attend an open discussion with other adoptees. It's actually been awhile since I've talked adoption issues with other adoptees. It was in a cafe in the basement of the building where the GOAL office is located. We were able to have a free beverage and there were pastries as a snack.

After the forum, I went to yet another restaurant I had researched. This one was an Italian bistro. I ordered a chicken ceasar salad and linguine (a red sauce with tomatoes, onion, spinach and bacon). Two salads in one weekend! It was so good though. And I was quite surprised about the price of the salad--it was quite a good size and it came with chicken and was only 7,000W. Ah, and the dressing was not really ceasar-like at all, which was a bit disappointing, but to be expected. It was still good and I felt so refreshed eating greens again! I hung around the restaurant eating slowly and doing a little bit of my reading homework, but I felt a bit awkward because it was a restaurant and not a cafe, so I wasn't sure if it was proper etiquette to continue studying or not. So, while I was full, I decided I needed to find a cafe to do my work in until church. I walked towards where church is located to find a cafe closer to church. I ordered a white hot chocolate and studied for about 2 hours before church.

As I was leaving church, I was walking down the big hill (lots of hills here in Korea--actually Korea is 70% mountains...) I slipped and fell. The pavement was wet because it had been raining. I scraped my knee, but luckily my pants did not rip. On the subway ride home, the cars were quite empty so I was able to sit and continue my reading assignments.

Also officially Jihye and I are not able to go to Malaysia. She is really the only contact person in the program (besides Director Kim and he is busy with his teaching job and position at Inje University) at IIIHR and cannot take the time off to go to Malaysia at all. I'm really quite disappointed, I was really looking forward to our trip, but I guess Mt. Seorak it is with my Kyunghee University group.

Ah, yes. Korea does not observe daylights saving time, so while all you luckies get to sleep an extra hour as I write this, I did not get an extra hour! So, if you are in MI I am now 14 hours ahead of you and if you are in WI I am 15 hours ahead of you!!

Close up of my salad

Close up of my pasta

The two together! Also, note the small yellow bowl to the right of the plates... contents: pickled jalapenos!