Meeting people

We met so many people all week that my head is starting to spin. I really enjoy meeting everyone, I just wish that there was an easier way to remember all the names. I started taking pictures of people who I need to remember and Dean had the idea to have them hold up a nametag or business card in the picture. We are sharing pictures and I will hopefully have them up on my Flickr page soon.

We tried to keep track of everyone we met so we could go out the last few nights, we were supposed to meet up with so many different people it was very confusing. Not really being fluent in each others language didn't help either. On one of the first nights, had a dinner with some guys from the Seoul National University of Technology, some Amerians from Tacoma and the English translator. That made things easier! We also hung out at the room and then at the bar with some other people (English student and professor and Turkish students and then met up with more Koreans at the bar we didn't know would be there).  A guy nick-named Chris saw that Dean and I didn't have a table and came and adopted us.  Kajin Lee and her boyfriend were a little worried by Dean's Soju and Beer bombs that the other Korean guys kept having him take over and over and over.... but we all got home, the condominium that we were staying in for the workshops in Yeoju was sharing a parking lot with this bar.  

We have since moved to the Miranda hotel in Ichon (not to be confused with a larger city Inchon-- we have all been corrected at some point for this mistake) and I am going to find some food.  I will have to summarize the workshop and what went on in this past week real fast.

*I sprained my ankle-- I have crutches and a splint and it really sucks a lot

*We got to see many schools from Korea do their demonstrations and workshops for us and the other international students.  This was 2 days and we made a lot of friends and learned some new techniques.

*Professors had their workshops for one day.  Still no Hoon-- much confusion on this day because we thought we were starting our project, but found out it was the next day.  We wandered into town a way with the French girls from the Swiss school and bought some ceramic tools, went drinking and I sprained my ankle while dancing (not drunk!  there was a hole my ankle went in) at the BBQ and later Dean carried me all the way to the Karaoke bar and then home.  Hoon showed up and wanted to sing Karaoke with us... I have video proof he knows how to have fun!

*We had our workshop for two days and met new people yet by having them work collaboratively on our little clay huts.  I will explain the concept later-- it has to do with making a temporary home in Korea for us...

*Workshops were finished and we went to Icheon for the remaining two days for lectures.  They were kind of dry with images in Power Point, but we learned some new things.  Said goodbye to new friends and into the Miranda Hotel now, not much has happened, I really needed sleep!

I will blog more.  Mom, my ankle is fine, and Dean helps with everything I need.  NO WORRIES!