Beautiful Samchuk

Two weekends ago we had a long weekend in Korea so Mark and I with our friend Kwang-kyu took a trip to Samchuk, a city on the east coast. We enjoyed relaxing on the beach, visiting one of the largest caves in Asia, as well as an interesting park.

Here are some pictures from the trip:
This first one is of the walk to the cave entrance. The cave is called Hwanseon Donggul. Here we are inside...I couldn't get over how big it all was.
It was cool to see the different limestones and other rocks. Too bad I don't remember very much from my Earth Science class.
We were sorry we didn't meet any bats. I think Mark was a bit more sorry than I was.
If you look closely in this last cave picture you might be able to find what looks like the virgin Mary. It's really small standing above the whitest part in the picture...
View of the ocean from an interesting park.

Then we went to the beach, which, I don't understand, was almost empty! It was such a beautiful hot day. I love the ocean!

San-Nak-Chee

Last night after we finished teaching we went out to try a new dish called san-nak-chee. It's raw octopus (fresh out of the tank) cut up and then put on a plate. When it's brought to the table it's still moving! It looks crazy! I think it still moves because the nerves are still alive. When we picked up a piece with our chopsticks the tentacles stuck to the chopsticks...the tentacles also got stuck to the inside of our mouths. That was an interesting feeling. So then you just chew and chew and chew. I heard that a person died from eating san-nak-chee because it was a really long piece and the person suffocated because it stuck to the person's throat...something like that. We only ate small pieces so there was no risk but I still chewed a lot just to kill all of the nerves. Yummy! Well not actually but it wasn't bad.

Korea vs. Jordan

On Saturday we had the pleasure of going to a soccer game at the World Cup Stadium in Seoul along with two Connexus students. I love being in a stadium. I haven't experienced it very often so every time it's kind of exciting. The first half was really good and Korea's best player Ji-Sung Park scored two goals. The second half was a bit disapointing with Jordan scoring two goals....oh well. We still had a good time...a highlight was a wave going around the stadium three times! Yes, three times!
On our way home Mark got stopped by a man who wanted to interview him about the game. Maybe he will be famous...
...side note...I think my English is getting worse....after teaching it it should be better, shouldn't it? But I seem to have gotten into a habit of simplifying my speech too much that it now sounds bad...this is not good.