Sunday, July 17, 2011

May 26, 2011 Korean Presentations, Mr. Pizza, 박상언

After we had class, 박 교수님 Professor Park invited us to attend his class where his students prepared presentations about Korean culture.  There were 5 presentations:  Korean bell folk tale, musical instruments, 한복 Korean traditional dress (hahn-bohk), 김치 kimchi, and 비빔밥 bibimbap/mixed rice with vegetables, meat, and a spicy sauce.  One of my favorite Korean dishes.  ^.^  The presentations were given in Korean but we could understand what they were trying to convey to us.  After all of the presentations, we had to grade each group on who was the most prepared.  Seriously, all of them were so good so it was hard. 

After, 박 교수님 Professor Park kindly took us out to lunch at, guess this, Mr. Pizza!  Haha lol.  We tried a seafood pizza and a sweet potato pizza.  Both super delicious!  :-)  I met one of his students who I think is absolutely adorable!  Her name is 박상언 Park Sang Eon (park sahng uhn).  She was so cute; I taught her some English words and they had M!Net Countdown showing on the TV so we talked about k-pop and dramas of course.  :-)  She's from 부산 Busan and works at a children's cafe which from what I've seen on TV, those things are sooo cute!!  I would go if I was a kid.  I wish I got to take a picture with her because already I've fallen in love with her.  I wish I could take her back to America with me!

I love the people here!  Wow, Koreans are much nicer than I thought.  I already knew they were nice and polite but I've been treated so well here by many of them.  It's been great to see how people truly are in their native country and not as a foreigner.  They're more relaxed and friendly than I thought.  :-)