Our next stop was 김유신의릉 Kim Yushin's tomb. However, they don't know for a fact that it's his tomb but they assume that it's his tomb. What they have found out about thed tomb is that it was an important figure, fit enough for a king. We had a joke going on a little bit that we saw 김유신 가짜 릉 Kim Yushin's fake tomb. This tomb had something similar to one of the other tombs that we saw earlier; it had the 12 zodiac animals surrounding the tomb.
The next part was pretty fun. We went to a pottery place in 경주 Kyeongju. They had pottery from various periods of Korean history. We saw lots of green celadon from the Koryo dynasty. The green celadon is known for being one of the most beautiful pieces of pottery of all time. And of course it is; it's so pretty!
Cute cups!
They had a sciences museum nearby that we stopped at. They showed astronomical discoveries people of Korea found. They also showed how the Buddha statue in 불국사 Bulguksa and 석굴암 Seokguram was put together over the years. I think 경주 Kyeongju has become our home now. We've been there so many times. We stopped at a convenient store for dinner. I had the best 김치찌개 kimchi jjigae ever!
So good :-) I thought it was really funny that they gave me more 김치 kimchi as a side. As if the 김치찌개 kimchi jjigae didn't have enough 김치 kimchi in it already.
After dinner, Dr. Peterson asked us while we were in the van if we wanted to visit North Korea. All of us thought that meant the DMZ but then we thought it was a joke because the DMZ is at the top which would have been more convenient if we were in 서울 Seoul but we said sure anyways because we wanted to know what he meant. There's a place in 김해 Gimhae that is exactly like North Korea in the way that it looks. When we got there, we had the chills. It was deserted and the people coming out of there looked embarrassed. It was dark in many places and corners. It was pretty creepy. My camera made the place look a bit lighter. Even though it wasn't dark outside, it was a bit dark outside looking at this place.
I think the study abroad has been wonderful so far because of what we learned, seen, and studied as well as the other students on the study abroad. We've laughed so much while being here because we play on each others' humor. Tonight we had an 애교 aegyo battle. 애교 aegyo if you're not familiar with it, is associated with Koreans. It's when people, especially girls, will act cute and sometimes complain a little bit. Girls usually do it towards their boyfriends or people if they want something. Sometimes boys do it too but it's more of a girl thing. It can be perceived as a cute, funny or it can be viewed as annoying, immature, and childish. Since I can't upload the video right now, we all thought Victoria would win because she does it a lot but in the end Kenwood won. His was hilarious and so true!
This is 썬니 Sunny from the group 소녀시대 Girl's Generation doing 애교 aegyo. In my opinion, most of the time, it sounds annoying but I felt that many girls, who do 애교 aegyo, do it like her.
This is 민호 Minho from the group 샤이니 SHINee doing 애교 aegyo. Many guys don't like to do it unless they're trying to be funny. He's popular in Korea for being good looking and many other things. Surprisingly, some guys are good/cute at doing it!
