I got up and we had a bowl of cold water between us to wash. We agreed it was the lushest sleep ever though. We got dressed and met Mahinda outside, we then went to the Kitchen and met the children. They were so cute and it was hard to learn that they were orphans as it's still a very taboo thing in Korea and Japan. It's very nice as the people take out their free time to look after the children and teach them. We found out afterwards that the majority are orphans, given up by parents because of shame. It was quite shocking to hear.
We had breakfast, rice, and then got in this bus with the others and drove to this amazing temple. There we met up with three cute children who'd just come back from America and were the children of the Rehab lady. Their English was perfect and they acted as our tor guides and our translators. We walked around for a bit and done more prayers before getting some lunch, rice.. again, before being taken to this land with millions of Lotus flowers, it was really pretty and we met an awesome monk for tea. He was so cheeky and pretended to scare the children. The monk was the head of the monastery and had such a great vibe about him, he was really interested in us. We had lots of photos with him and he took me to a place to take a nice photograph.
We then drove about and dropped the Japanese to the airport before being taken around Tesco, it was so weird to see Tesco in another country.
We then got dropped at our hotel for tonight, it is SO cool. Me and Caroline are sharing a room and Helena has her own. We have a twin room, HD television (which has BAD videos on it... for free) , computer and air conditioner. It's costing us about $30 which is amazing as it's right on the beach. We went out for western food and shared a big pizza and some chips which was good before looking at this band on the beach. It was cheesy but really good to watch, we're just so chilled out at the moment.
Me and Caroline decided to sneak out for a night out. We went into this building and started walking up the stairs trying to find a place. We heard lots of men cheering and got escorted out in a nice way. It was only afterwards that we realised that we were trying to enter a mens strip club. It was quite hilarious looking back but scary at the time! In giggles we went looking for more places but ended up having very strong drinks and a chat in the hotel bar. Now I'm drinking $1,6%, vodka and lemonade in a can, it's quite funny.
Earlier we were walking across the pier until Caroline pointed out these fish that look abit dodgey. I'll let you work out what they look like.
Logging off for now,
-Angharad

Labels: beach, busan, chilled, cocktails, funny, strip club

I got up and we had a bowl of cold water between us to wash. We agreed it was the lushest sleep ever though. We got dressed and met Mahinda outside, we then went to the Kitchen and met the children. They were so cute and it was hard to learn that they were orphans as it's still a very taboo thing in Korea and Japan. It's very nice as the people take out their free time to look after the children and teach them. We found out afterwards that the majority are orphans, given up by parents because of shame. It was quite shocking to hear.
We had breakfast, rice, and then got in this bus with the others and drove to this amazing temple. There we met up with three cute children who'd just come back from America and were the children of the Rehab lady. Their English was perfect and they acted as our tor guides and our translators. We walked around for a bit and done more prayers before getting some lunch, rice.. again, before being taken to this land with millions of Lotus flowers, it was really pretty and we met an awesome monk for tea. He was so cheeky and pretended to scare the children. The monk was the head of the monastery and had such a great vibe about him, he was really interested in us. We had lots of photos with him and he took me to a place to take a nice photograph.
We then drove about and dropped the Japanese to the airport before being taken around Tesco, it was so weird to see Tesco in another country.
We then got dropped at our hotel for tonight, it is SO cool. Me and Caroline are sharing a room and Helena has her own. We have a twin room, HD television (which has BAD videos on it... for free) , computer and air conditioner. It's costing us about $30 which is amazing as it's right on the beach. We went out for western food and shared a big pizza and some chips which was good before looking at this band on the beach. It was cheesy but really good to watch, we're just so chilled out at the moment.
Me and Caroline decided to sneak out for a night out. We went into this building and started walking up the stairs trying to find a place. We heard lots of men cheering and got escorted out in a nice way. It was only afterwards that we realised that we were trying to enter a mens strip club. It was quite hilarious looking back but scary at the time! In giggles we went looking for more places but ended up having very strong drinks and a chat in the hotel bar. Now I'm drinking $1,6%, vodka and lemonade in a can, it's quite funny.
Earlier we were walking across the pier until Caroline pointed out these fish that look abit dodgey. I'll let you work out what they look like.
Logging off for now,
-Angharad

Labels: beach, busan, chilled, cocktails, funny, strip club