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| Only a week and a half of school left. The weather has been really nice lately, so I think Spring is on the way. But it doesn't matter anyway because Feb 28th I will be on a plane to Malaysia! Yay beach. Cute little Buddha on the front of a door. |
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| Jenny, her friend Kelly, and I went out for dinner one Friday after school. |
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| I didn't end up doing too much on my winter vacation. Erik and I climb to the waterfall in Geumosan. I really like that mountain haha. The weather has been nice, so I enjoy being outside. |
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| We walked around the temple. |
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| A little Buddha figure sitting on a back wall. |
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| Cute Banner. |
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| Guardians at the front entrance of the temple. |
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| Rissa, check out his ukulele! |
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| A nice bamboo painting hiding in the ceiling. |
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| A monk making his rounds. |
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| A Bodhisattva perhaps? |
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| A sign while walking near a construction zone. Maybe if you can read the sign than you are approaching? |
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| Erik and I also went to the National Museum in Seoul for the day. Lucky we saved one of the coldest days of the year to walk around the nice warm museum! I took a lot of pictures, but I won't make an art history lecture out of my blog again hehe. |
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| Here are some caskets made of clay. Half of the body would lay in one and then another one would fit over the remaining half. |
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| Ceramic horse from the Shilla Period, about the 6th century. |
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| REALLY tall pagoda. |
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| We were at the museum on Lunar New Year, so there were a few people dressed in Korean traditional hanbok. |
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| Old Korean flag. The symbol in the middle is called Taegeuk. If you are interested in the symbolism you can read about it on wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taegeuk |
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| Portrait of an official. |
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| Erik taking a break. The museum was a really nice size. Big enough to spend a day there, but not overwhelming. You can pretty much see everything with one trip. |
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| Yay old pottery. This is an example of Korean buncheong ware. It is known for its unrefined and coarse surface. |
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| A big contract would be these two white porcelain bowls. Image holding these when you eat your cereal! |
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| On the way home we were sitting on the KTX and the lady did the weather in her hanbok. It kinda gets in the way of the map I think haha. |
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| Erik and I took a random day trip to Daegu to visit this old poets house. |
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| Some herbs drying in the sun. We were walking down Yangyeongsi, the traditional medicine street in Daegu. |
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| I'm sure you are wondering what this picture is about and why I am taking pictures of garbage...but I really love those peach cylinders with holes. They are the ashes of coal used for heating. They are all over the place. |
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| Beverage delivery truck at at a restaurant near my house. Mostly just soju and beer, but there is some soda too. |
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| Downtown Gumi. |
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| When I was walking one night I took some pictures of the menu balloons outside the many barbecue restaurants on the way to my house. |
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| My apartment on the right. Hopefully I will get a few more blog posts this week. I am trying to take some last minute pictures. Otherwise look for some Malaysia pics if I can find the time there! |
