Andong Cultural Trip

The Ulsan POE organized a cultural trip for the TaLK teachers to visit Andong and see the very famous Andong mask festival. We all met Saturday morning bright and early and headed three hours away to our first destination: Andong city.

We were able to see a dance performance, but I wish it would have been a mask dance instead. We were only scheduled to be here for a couple hours so there was not much time to see the entire festival. There were a lot of stalls to look at, play games, make your own mask, and lots of yummy food and samples. My camera died and I left my extra batteries on the bus :S...not something I usually do, so I didn't get many pictures from the actual festival. I went and i'm glad that I got to visit one of the famous festivals in Korea.

There were a lot more places for us to visit before the end of the night. Our next stop was a traditional Korean village where there are still farmers that live in these homes; they have continued to preserve the traditional Korean homes, culture, growing crops, and way of life.

 

It was very rainy and gloomy so no one really felt like walking around, but we had a lot of time to sight see while we were there. After dinner we were supposed to go to a fireworks show, but, because of the rain, it had to be cancelled. We had "free" time, meaning, we went to our hotel room earlier and hung out. We couldn't go out because our hotel was in the middle of no where, it looked kind of sketchy but our hotel room was nice. We did try to walk ouside for a bit to see if we could find a place to eat some patbingsu, but it was raining so much and a lot of us didn't bring umbrella's with us. Instead, Tiff and I, since we were rooming together, decided to get some snacks and bring it back to our room and watch some tv.

The next day we had to be up early to visit a couple more places and get back to Ulsan at a reasonable time.

First stop after breafast was a scholrs village. This is a cute little village made to look like where the first scholars taught, learned and lived.





being carried away to jail





year of the rabbit '87



After the scholars village we headed to Buseoksa to visit a very beautiful temple famous for the beautiful carvings on the exterior. There was quite a hike up to the temple, but of course, as always. when you get to the top it's breath taking.

After the scholars village we headed to Buseoksa to visit a very beautiful temple famous for the beautiful carvings on the exterior. There was quite a hike up to the temple, but of course, as always. when you get to the top it's breath taking.

Our last stop to end our cultural trip was to the Applepia Organic apple farm. Every year I go apple picking during Thanksgiving with my family and I would miss it this year, but, when I found out we were going apple picking I was very happy that I could pick my apples and take a family picture like I always do. The apples were huge and yummy. I've been eating apples for two weeks. One apple took me about a half hour to eat, it was like a complete meal. It was so much fun picking apples with my new friends and taking pictures lol. It was the perfect end to our cultural trip.

 



family pic



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