Korean Speaking Contest and RedbullBCOne

Hi! Today is a lazy rainy day (which honestly are my favourite!), and I'm relaxing after a really rather busy week! This week started off on a really bad note with me falling over and smashing my face on the ground, which meant I got to see what a Korean hospital was like (very nice incidentally, with much shorter waiting times than in England!). Luckily my injuries were just superficial and they're healing nicely!

This week we also had the English and Korean speaking contests, which were great fun! Everyone put on a short presentation displaying their skills in either English or Korean, either with presentations, songs, poems or other things. Tommy and I decided to act out a really daft scene from a Korean drama where the girl realises that the boy she liked was actually a high school student. We decided to switch it up and make me the boy and Tommy the girl (because it's just more fun that way!). We actually managed to get third place! I definitely wasn't expecting that, but I was so happy!

Winners of the Korean Contest! (I'm hiding in the line up somewhere!)

We all got a rose and a certificate (the rose dripped water on my certificates cover!)

Yesterday a group of us went on an outing to Seoul to go to RedBullBCOne to watch the bboys battle. It was great fun, even though we were standing on couches and tables to see over people! I know absolutely nothing about dance or bboys, but it was awesome to watch, sometimes I couldn't actually believe that humans could move like that!

I forgot my camera so here's the event poster instead!

Although last week was super duper busy this week is going to be busier! On Thursday I'll be hopping on a plane with a few of my friends to spend a long weekend in Osaka! I've never been to Japan before and I'm incredibly excited!

On a really sad note my time in Korea is coming to an end far quicker than I would like! In just under 7 weeks I'll be back in England, I don't want to leave!

Jeonju and Korean Culture

Hello! I'm taking a break from writing a paper right now (I promise I'll get right back to it after this!). Today is my sick day so I'm wrapped up in pyjamas and a blanket eating lots of chocolate. Loads of people seem to have come down with a cold recently, and despite drinking a huge amount of orange juice I've managed to get sick too!

A couple of weeks ago we had a trip to Jeonju, a city famous for food (bibimbap in particular), a national museum and the traditional Hanok village. The day we went was gorgeously sunny and the city was full of flowers.

Our first stop was to the National Jeonju museum, it was full of old relics from the area, including books, paintings, swords and miniature models of what the area looked like in the past.

Outside the museum

One of the books inside the museum

Such a nice day!

After the museum we found a restaurant and sampled some of the famous bibimbap (which I forgot to take a picture of!) which was delicious. With our tummies full we headed to the Hanok village and had a guided tour of the area. After the tour we got to explore the traditional houses by ourselves, there were loads and loads of storage areas. Once we found a building that was actually used as a house instead of a storage room we sat down and relaxed, soaking up the ambiance like the lazy students we are.

Pretending to be a Queen!

Jessica, Tommy and Bianca in the traditional village

Even the storage buildings look pretty!

Although it was a relatively short trip it was really enjoyable, the weather was fantastic, the food was delicious and the traditional village was really relaxing to wander around.

The week after we had a Korean culture assembly. A group of volunteers came to the university to teach us about Korean culture, we were shown how to do a big bow (and I was one of the people who went up on stage to try it out!), we were given traditional Korean snacks to eat and we were shown a few short videos about the origin of the Korean writing system, Hyundai and famous Korean artifacts.

After this we got to dress up in Hanbok (Korean traditional clothes), this was definitely the most fun part, and we took loads of photos!

Me and my roomie Eun Hee

Roomies! Soo Min, Eun Hee and me!

I want to keep this outfit!

All the pretty ITS students! (Can you spot me?)

Hopefully I'll recover soon and finish off my homework so I can focus on going on more trips around Korea! I've definitely got a few things in mind for the rest of the semester, I can't believe I've only got two months left in Korea! It's flown by!