Madeleine's Continuing Adventures in Korealand

The past week has been pretty cool. Madeleine has been able to get used to traveling around Korea, and has experienced first-hand the pitfalls of not being able to read menus etc.



On Tuesday, we met up with Alex and Nicola for some kimbap, then wandered along until we found a neat ice cream parlour with flowery swingy chairs by the window. The decor was hilarious and the food was quite good -- well... okay. It wasn't ice cream, but ice flakes with syrup and fruit. Still, it was good. Madeleine went ahead and ordered a "Wild Thing" and was quite surprised to be served cereal and milk with fruit! Still, she ate it all.

On Wednesday, Madeleine ventured out to Gangjin to find out about traditional Korean celadon pottery. She was absolutely dumped on by the rain as she wandered around the (tiny) town of Gangjin, searching for pottery. Still, at the end of the day, she had a pretty good time, and was able to get herself a nice celadon teapot.

For the past two days, she's been in Boseong and Yulpo, enjoying the tea fields and the seaside spa. Tonight, she'll be back in Mokpo, then over the weekend, we're looking at wandering out to Daewonsa. Next week, it looks like Jeju, with the Mud Festival next weekend... Should be fun!

p.s. All my students are still speaking French!