Day Five

Hi there…. It is another late night once again. We’ve just settled into our new home for the evening. We are along the coast of the East Sea, in Seonsok I believe… will correct that later.
We said goodbye to our host family today, of whom we really enjoyed. We traveled about an hour and a half to the Korean Folk Village – something I personally was looking forward too. It was so much fun, and it really gave us some insight as to how basic living can actually be. I was told that some Korean’s still live like they did over 500 years ago, with a few basic upgrades such as plumbing and minimal electricity. Overall, with our visit with our home stay family and seeing the way of living so many years ago, it really makes you appreciate what we have at home, and really just how easy it would be to scale back to live more efficiently.
I think I had mentioned in an earlier post that, being 6 foot tall and blond, tends to attract some attention, well earlier today, at the Korean Folk Village, there was a school field trip, of what seem to be JK to grade 2 students. This one little girl seem to keep appearing in the various place that we were, and she began to talk to Liam and I. She was so cute! We then started to speak with her and her classmates (who all spoke English very well), and before we knew it, the teacher sits Liam and I down with the kids in front of us, and they all had to say “Canada” instead of “Cheese”….lol I only wish now that I had given her my camera to take a shot for us as well.
The rest of the day was taken up by bus travel, as we headed to the Seonsok. We will visit a very mountainous provincial park in the morning. I’m sure we are in for some beautiful scenery and great photo opts. All was not lost today, however. We had a very interesting dinner at a traditional (aka eat on the floor) restaurant, that was right along the beach. Liam got to put his feet in the sea, and of course got his shorts wet as the tide was coming in a bit faster than he realized. We did some sea shell searching and found a really cool piece of blue beach glass. Liam was so thrilled, until he dropped it, and it broke! He says at least he now has 2 pieces… lol – such a positive way to look at things.
Dinner this evening consisted of a lot of sea foods – but you can likely predict, that it wasn’t your Red Lobster version of seafood. We ate raw fish, raw oysters, shrimp – with the heads on, fish with the heads (and guts) still intact, a version of calamari, along with a variety of veggies, and miscellaneous (aka food we could not identify…lol)
Liam’s favorite part of today: Being sent to the torture chamber in the Korean Folk Village, where I was able to give him 8 (birthday) lashes with a huge wooden stick, and then he was put in jail into a neck lock – a great picture, but somewhat disturbing to see… I’m thinking the whole “time out” punishment will now be looked upon favorably.
He also really enjoyed getting 2 piggy back rides – one from Alex, our videographer of all people! and another from me. Alex commented in his best English – Liam is a “healthy” boy.
His not so favorite part was going into the haunted house at the Korean Folk Village – hence the reason why he is so happy to sleep with me tonight – which incidently is on the floor again.
My favorite part of the day – was just a few minutes ago, when Liam told me how much fun he is having, and how he enjoys learning about his culture. His exact words – I’m so glad you brought me to South Korea Mommy…. Kam-sa Haminda! Which is Korean for thank you!
Again, it is such an amazing journey to take and watch it through his eyes – I’m so glad he wanted to come! It truly is worth every ounce of energy and effort to get here!
Well, time to get back to work, now that I can use my computer – however, I still cannot post online as of yet. Fingers are crossed that we can do this tomorrow!