We went to see the Buddhist Temple in Gwangju with our boss Alex. It was up in the mountains and beautiful. You were required to hike throughout the temple to see the 92 Buddha statues throughout the temple, at one time there was reported to be over 900. Unfortunately we forgot the camera so no pictures. I can say it was like walking through a museum except instead of man ripping the artifacts out of the its environment and bringing it to you, you go see it in its home.
For dinner we ate at this great restaurant and ate Hair Tail fish, it was quite good, but very bony.
Sunday we went hiking again, and then went to downtown and it was crazy. Each building was 3 stories and each story had several different stores. Street Vendors were out selling crazy wind up toys, dried octopus tentacles, and much more. We found a Burger King, Krispy Kreme, Outback Steak House, Pizza Hut, and finally a street vendor selling Pizza in a cup.
Our vacation is over though, work starts tomorrow, and that means new challenges. I can't wait to see what that brings.
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I forgot to mention about the language. Korean uses character blocks, these are like words of sorts, but each block is one syllable. The blocks contain no less than 2 letters and no more than 3. Each block contains a vowel, but vowels can never stand alone, so there must be either one or two consonants. It makes writing and reading fairly easy once you understand of to pronounce the letters. My goal is to learn this as quickly as possible and then work on my vocabulary.
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