Korea Day 15

I did feel more refreshed today after a good night sleep. I can taste my day off - today is Friday!!

Today was the big speech contest. Tim, a very strong student in my class, won the speech contest for our class. He speaks well and he is confident so I knew he would do a good job representing our class in the contest. The two little classes were very cute with their class cheers. The speeches were quite impressive. They were short but everyone tried really hard. Personally, I thought Tim did the best job but someone else was chosen. My class talked about what they wanted to do when they grow up. Tim wants to be a singer. The winner talked about pollution.

It's laundry time so Joann and I got instructions - all the dials and buttons have Korean instructions!! We have a load in, each floor where we are living has a front loading washing machine. There are drying racks behind the kitchen. Unfortunately, there is no iron so don't criticize too much when I start to look wrinkled.

After laundry, Joann and I will get something to eat, go for a walk and get some fruit for breakfast.

We also have to look into getting a visa for China. I am not sure if I mentioned this but Hailey's boyfriend, Jesse, was here and he is living in Beijing. He told us to get in touch with him and he would take us out one night. It's great to have contacts. Hailey and Jesse are in the photo when it was her birthday.

Well, I'm out of things to say for now and I don't have any new photos uploaded. We have now been here for two weeks. It doesn't seem that long at all.

Just to update, we managed to get two loads of laundry washed and hung to dry. We went to an italian place for pizza. It was good but not like traditional pizza. We were very excited to see arugula on the pizza though. After pizza, we went to a newly opened ice cream place, Cold Plate Creamery. Apparently the Koreans really like ice cream! It was delicious. You pick a flavour of ice cream and a theme (mine was mud pie and coffee ice cream) and they make it for you. They put the ice cream on a frozen slabe of marble (hence the name) and mash it a bit and add all sorts of good things. To mine, they added an oreo cookie, some peanut butter, a bit of whipped cream and some chocolate sauce. They then mush it all together back into a ball and put it in a cup, waffle cone or waffle cup. It was delicious. It was a very popular place as it just opened yesterday. They had staff out in the afternoon trying to entice people into the store. It was full when we went. It was funny because Baskin and Robbins is just down the street so they also had people out front of their store, trying to compete for business!

After the ice cream, we went for a short walk and headed in to sleep.