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| Store in Itaewon, the 'western' district of Seoul |
Pretty crazy, you see the logos everywhere. These companies have their fingers in virtually every industry; juice, ice cream, cars, festival sponsorship, university sponsorship, shoes, etc.
Yoga: Been doing yoga and meditating almost every morning on the rooftop of my apartment building lately - really lovely.
This powerful yet soft warm wind is almost always blowing and since the temperature here is anywhere from 75-100 degrees (24- 37 C), even at 3am, the wind is really refreshing.
Temple Stay: Went to a Korean Buddhist temple and ate my favorite food of the trip thus far.
(All healthy and vegetarian and novel and delicious).
Man temple food is the bomb, I wish I could get it more often!
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| These signs line the streets of Itaewon They have them for every country! |
He threatened to hit people with this bamboo stick if they fell asleep while meditating...and then demonstrated how he would hit people by hitting two guys in the front row. Still not content, he pulled me up to the front and had me hit a guy in the front row in a similar way.
Then there was a guy who was profoundly inflexible and was struggling to sit on the floor. The monk saw him as an ideal target.
He pulled him up to the front and then folded his legs for him, arguably breaking them.
A thorough source of entertainment, our entire group was cracking up.
We also took part in a traditional tea ceremony and learned how to properly bow (it's more complicated than you think).
Then we made lotus flowers :D
After that I went home to do some work and later met up with friends again for a soccer (football) game.
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| They really love green tea and red bean together here |
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| More teobokki! |
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| Kimbap = staple food source. There's a great little local place right next to campus that sells these delicious rolls for about $2.50 USD |
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| The Hyundai Business School at Korea Uni is beautiful! |
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| Really yummy restaurant right next to my home |
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| Korean bars almost always have these little corn... err, tubes? Pictured is Rafael modeling with his kebab |
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| Mushroom soup! |
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| Buddhist temple |
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| The ceiling of the temple |
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| NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM |
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| Lotus flowers! |
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| Tea ceremony! There's a whole process and pattern to pouring tea - quite complex and very interesting |
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| The soccer game! Koreans love their team sports (Baseball is huge here too) |
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| "MADE IN THE USA" lol Might as well try it, it was okay, tasted like vitamins haha |
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| Bingsu! Korean/Asian ice cream desert dish Delicious :D It's ice cream on top of shaved ice that you later pour milk and peanut over (after you eat the ice cream) |
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| Oh man. These flip flops. I feel like I need to write a eulogy for them. They have been through so much. Monsoons in Vietnam, Holi in Berkeley, mad sprints to Bart in SF, clubbing in Singapore and Korea, beaches in Australia They've lived a good and long life, especially considering I got them for $1 from Old Navy. |
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