Long Holiday weekend

This past weekend was a long weekend.  I had Thursday off for Children's Day, worked Friday, and then had Sat-Tues. off for Buddha's birthday.  Since I had four days off in a row I decided to go all the way south to visit Corrie!  If you look at the map provided, I live north of Seoul up next to the border and Corrie lives all the way in the south of Korea near Taegu...kind of.  I think.  


In any case, it took 6 hours almost exactly (ok, 6 hrs and 4 minutes plus a 20 minute walk to the subway station) to arrive.  I took a subway and then a four hour train ride but finally I arrived! 


Visiting with Corrie was fun.  On Sunday we headed into Daegu where I went shopping! I had to get some make up and ended up getting a brand I have recently started to hear about--BB.  Apparently all the concealers in Korea has skin whitening stuff in it as Koreans are all obsessed with looking pale.  So now the fair-skinned me is a proud owner of a "Whitening Duel BB Cream."  Heh.  While I doubt my skin could actually become any lighter than it already is, it does cover up my freckles pretty well so that's nice.  Plus, it's 35+ sunblock which is always an added bonus.  


While in Daegu, Corrie and I met her friend Joo Ock (Rachel), her cousin, Jae Woon (Ethan), and her cousin's friend which I don't remember his Korean name so Jake.  The five of us spent the day together and it was a lot of fun! Apparently we were Ethan's first foreign friends.  ^_^  We had dinner at Holy Grill where I ate an enormous burger.  Pictures of said burger is posted on the earlier post.  


Monday was spent traveling back to my apartment.  On the subway I encountered the sweetest old man. Not only did he offer me his seat on the subway (which I didn't take because he was old and needed it more than I did), but he also got my attention again when a new seat opened and saved it for me, AND helped me carry my bag (a rolling suitcase full of clothes) down the subway stairs. 

All of this without a word being spoken between us aside from me saying thank you in Korean and bowing. :)  

Today was spent with most of it traveling to Itaewon, a section in Seoul.  There is an English bookstore there, What the Book?, that I went to and picked up a copy of "The Seven Storey Mountain" which is an autobiography of Thomas Merton.  I am pretty excited to read about his story of becoming baptized as a Catholic and then becoming a Trappist Monk.  

It's sounds delightful.  

So yeah.  That was my "exciting" weekend.  It was just like any other weekend I would have in the States. :-p