Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:42 AM
A TRIP TO KOREA, BUSAN! =D
1st June
met everyone at 8pm at de airport. was so excited to get on de plane. hahah! den waited & waited till like 10+pm den get on de plane. 2nd June
Arrived at Busan finally! =D travelled to Haegang Middle school. it was soooo big okayys. i'm sooo jealous! went to their English Cafe. so cool larhhs. we don even haf dat in our school. den lunch in their canteen. their canteen was like soooo clean & neat sia. hahah. afterwhich, went fer de welcoming ceremony. de pupils performed samulnori. & dey sounds so PRO. hahah. anyways, went to my buddy's home. her mum was sooooo friendly, really. Left my stuffs at her hse, den headed down to Homeplus to meet de rest. Homeplus was a disappointment actually. i thot dat i'd be able to buy many souvenirs there, but it turned out to be sth like GIANT in s'pore. awws~ after dat, went to 2001 outlet fer dinner. 3rd June Breakfast prepared by my buddy's mum. VERY healthy. lols. Board subway to buddy's school, & attended lessons wif them. i kinda like their classroom, though it's much smaller than ours. hehs. & one interesting thing. they're still using chalkboard! After dat, left their school & headed to Busan Students Educational Institute. Learnt how to play Guk Gung, an Ancient Korean Archery. Super fun! =DD There's big improvement from my first try. Yays! hahah. We played samulnori too. It is korea Traditional percussion. pretty cool. cos i've not tried those instruments before. hahah. Fer dinner, buddy's friend eun-ji, came over. & they prepared dinner fer us! xD it's superb! & the korea traditional drink, shik-hye, was like sooooo damn nice larhhs. 4th June
BUSAN CITY TOUR! ((= finally a city tour after 2 days of school. lols. went to many places, but i cant remember de names, cos my paper is wif June. so yeahhs. Took loads of photos. hahah. & finally get to buy some stuffs. went to a shopping mall called sfunz, in de evening. when de buddies said sfunz, most of us thot dat dey were trying to say sponge. lols. anyways, there's abit of conflict among our korean buddies. i'd not say wads de conflict about cos i'm not very sure, but just some communication breakdown i guess. but yeahhs, everything went bak to normal after dat uhhs. hahah.
5th June Went to LG Science Hall. there's a number of interesting displays! Lunch was prepared by buddy's mum, sushi. Initially supposed to go fer indoor sleighing, but changed to ice-skating. Fell on my butt a few times. hehs. but it was fun though! i'm in love wif ice-skating now! ahhhhs xD i love de falling part. i dono why. lols. Had dinner, Sam gyop Sal, which we haf to bbq de pork ourselves. its superrr delicious! *slurps* hahah. anyways, ji-hyun's mum is very nice. She drive us to Taimaji at nite. i LOVE de scenery there! & of cos, took quite a lot of photos! hahah. 6th June Wore school uniform wif blazer & tie. took a formal photo outside Haegang Middle school. den headed down to Gyeongju. Tiring trip. Went to tombs & temples de whole day. We went to TEMF hotel, had dinner. The teachers as well as some of us went to walk ard. (full details in my reflection book!) Back at hotel, went to teacher's room then to lobby to chat. 7th June Went to a temple followed by their souvenir shop. den lunch. after lunch, went to shilla millenium park. get to make our own necklaces & jeychains there. hahah. mine turned out weird. (Again, full detail in my reflection book.) Bak at hotel, went to teacher's room. we prepared our speech fer farewell assembly. Everyone of us haf to sae sth, so yeahhs. During de farewell assembly, we gave our "speeches", den performed. we sang "way bak into love" , "cai hong" & "3 bear song". de buddies requested encore fer de Korean childhood song. the performance put up by our buddies are great toos! had hugging & crying session. Really cant bear to leave everyone. 8th June After breakfast, travelled a long distance to de airport. our buddies tag along toos. i must sae, dis trip is a memorable one! i'll miss my buddy, her family & in fact, EVERYONE! sobs, hope we get to meet again! ))= anyways, dis post about my trip is obviously a summarised wann. so if uu wanna noe much more, uu may ask fer my reflection book. ((= i'll definitely lend it to uu, only if uu're close to me. lols. (" && photos will be uploaded again some other time alrights! ;D
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