Since Dr. Peterson has been gone, he gave us a list of things we have to see while he's away. We went to the 김해미속박물관 Gimhae Folk Museum. It was very small and a bit disappointing because everything we saw there, we've already seen at a different museum. We hung out with 심태용 Tae Yong who haha funny enough, took us to the 국립박물관 National Museum. The outside was really cool because it was black stone. The museum focused a lot on the 가야 Gaya kingdom and one of the features of the 가야 Gaya kingdom is that they made use of a lot of iron ore and so they had the outside of the museum reflect that. Because this museum had many similar things to the other museums we saw, it wasn't mindblowing because we've seen it many times already.
국립박물관 National Museum
Study Abroad family potrait.
After the museum, we took lots of pictures because 심태용 Tae Yong loves to take pictures. Here's a couple that he took.
Asian family portrait!!
I will not be offended if you laugh because right after this happened, I was laughing so hard.
Stephen felt really bad that I fell so he bought me an iced hot chocolate at a cafe where we all got some drinks. I told him he didn't have to but he insisted. The iced hot chocolate was amazing. You're probably thinking, "Iced hot chocolate? So you just had hot chocolate with ice in it?" Not exactly, they play it up more than that. It had other good stuff in it like caramel, nuts, chocolate bits, and much more. :-) So good.
We took some more pictures outside and walked around 김해 Gimhae.
When we saw this, immediately, "What is THAT??"
Let's take a picture by it!
I don't know if I mentioned this but Kenwood is a direct descendant of 김소로왕 King Kim Suro who was the king in the 가야 Gaya kingdom. Who he's standing in front of is King Kim Suro's wife the queen who had some significance because she brought Buddhism to the 가야 Gaya kingdom. The story is really cool! The queen was from what is now today India and she married 김수로왕 King Kim Suro. As you know, children take on their father's last name. Well, 김소로왕 King Kim Suro felt bad that his wife's name wasn't being passed onto her children because she technically wasn't Korean so he had the second son take on the queen's last name which was 허 Heo/Huh which is a Korean corruption of the Indian last name. 허 Heo/Huh is a very unique Korean last name and so those who have the last name are more than 90% likely from the king's second son.
박 교수님 Professor Park invited us to have dinner with a few of his students. We went to this Korean beef and salad buffet called Orange. Every single time we have walked by this restaurant at Home Plus, we get extremely hungry so we were very grateful for 박 교수님 Professor Park for treating us. We ate well that night; almost too well. So, I went to go get meat for everyone because I thought we were going to share (it was between 4 people) but by the time I got back, everyone was full! Well, you can't waste meat because it's good meat (duh) and it was a lot. So what happened? Me and Stephen ate all of it. :-( I seriously wanted to kill everyone at this point. Why didn't you say anything before I left????? That meat is going to add a ton to my face and everywhere else. :-( 심태용 Tae Yong, 박현준 Hyun Joon, 김민주 Kim Minju, and 이충호 Lee Choong Ho joined us for dinner and after we went to 노래방 karaoke! I don't know why but I was so hyper and giggly after dinner that it brought to everyone's mind this inside joke we have now about getting wasted. Rachael was telling us a certain line from a movie that I can't remember nor have I seen that these kids were asking I believe Adam Sandler what "getting wasted" meant. He didn't want to tell the kids so he said, "it's when you eat a lot of ice cream." Then the kids said, "I want to get wasted! I want to get chocolate wasted!" Haha so everyone says that I was "meat wasted" that night and everytime we think back to this day, "meat wasted" comes to mind.
Me and 김문주 Minju
노래방 Karaoke was fun but not as fun as last time I think. Even though we were pretty hyper, I think we had more fun last time. Also, me, Victoria, Kenwood, Michelle, and Stephen from the study abroad group and our Korean friends went and everyone else was tired and went home. We still had fun. There wasn't any funny videos that we took really.
We love the students here! They are so nice to us and have made an effort to make sure we all have a good time while we're here in Korea.
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