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Ms Parker in Korea!: One day I will look back on this day and say...

Ms Parker in Korea!

Sunday, April 08, 2007

One day I will look back on this day and say...





... Hey, Nina, Nicola, Jeannie, Jessica and Melisa, do you remember that time we went to that Tibetan Buddhist temple, Daewonsa, to look at the cherry blossoms?
Do you remember how we got on the world's oldest bus and that beautiful hundred year old lady sat with us and put her hand on my leg?
And wasn't it funny when the bus stopped on the side of the road about 8 km (the sign said 5 km) from Daewonsa and made us get out and we couldn't understand why and we asked those police officers to give us a ride on their motorbikes but then we saw all the crowds of people who were probably also there to look at cherry blossoms and started walking, but then we got all whiny and flagged down a flatbed pick-up truck and sat in the back and drove up the road waving like princesses with flower petals falling in our hair?
And remember how we still had to walk for ages when we got out of the back of the truck, but it was okay because it was so beautiful with hundreds of trees full of cherry blossoms lining either side of the road?
Lunch was great, wasn't it? Bibimbap with edible flowers... Melisa had fun with her flower, didn't she?
And when we finally made it to Daewonsa, do you remember meeting up with that female monk who spoke English and she told us that there was going to be a concert of some sorts, and then introduced us to the head monk and we realized that we were in the middle of some sort of Daewonsa Flower Festival and there were literally hundreds of people wandering around?
And after we saw the temple and the museum, do you remember Melisa, Jeannie, Nina and I getting dragged off to whack ddok with the news cameras rolling and that weird guy stole my scarf and then asked me for my phone number and then bought us ice cream?
The concert was cool too, wasn't it? How we listened to traditional Korean music, followed by some sort of folk music and then those two cute guys (classic Korean pop star style) and that girl were all singing and they were all like "I love you" to us while Melisa and Nicola danced and that really really old lady was smoking and got up and danced too?
Remember how the bus home never came and there were still tons of people and cars around and we hitchhiked and that lady picked us up and all six of us piled into her SUV and she dropped us off at the bus station and we realized that we weren't going to make it back to Suncheon, so we went to Gwangju and then headed our separate ways, but couldn't believe the kind of day that we'd had?

Yeah, that was a pretty cool day, wasn't it?

9 Comments:

  • Hi Its MOM Thats so funny - thats what memories are made of. Its awesome how many cherry blossoms there are there - are they sweet cherries or sour? Are they the knid you make pies out of? We will be thinking of you during our Easter Dinner here (in the snow & cold & wind) Love MOM
    PS I've got lots of chocolate for you too.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:51 AM  

  • Isn't it an amazing place?
    I'm going to miss it.

    PS - the picture of the old lady clapping her hands is gorgeous.

    By Blogger Brent, at 3:59 PM  

  • Yes, I remember that day... it was splendid!

    By Blogger Melisa, at 8:52 PM  

  • That sounds like soooo much fun.

    By Blogger Goulash, at 10:08 AM  

  • What beautiful pictures!! and what an amazing experience
    Katrina

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 12:48 AM  

  • wow

    far out

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:05 AM  

  • Sounds like a pretty cool day.

    The crocuses in my yard are dying and the daffodils refuse to bloom. But I saw two blue jays eating seeds from your front porch today.

    I can't wait for spring. Please bring it with you!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:10 AM  

  • our porch I mean... but when you're here, my porch is your porch.. especially if you bring spring.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:11 AM  

  • That was the best story EVER! The way it was written, the completely RANDOM-yet-not-random-because-it's-SO-Korea (to a T!), the wonderful pictures! That could be like the first chapter of a book, man.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:22 PM  

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