A Lazy Weekend

We had more of a lazy weekend the last two days so not much to report this time.  It felt good to sit in our air conditioned apartment with our books, some Super Mario time, and crocheting for me and online camera lens searching for Eric while we relaxed.  We have also been busy enjoying our box of birthday treats from home that arrived on Friday!  On Saturday Eric went to his first 4D movie (which he reports was pretty neat) and I went to Namsangol Hanok Village, a village of different traditional Korean houses from the late Joseon Dynasty.  All of the houses there were recovered from different parts of the city and then moved and restored or reconstructed in one area to create a village.  The houses reflect the different classes of people at that time from the middle class to the aristocrats.  They have many different opportunities for you to experience the history through things such as archery practice, wearing the traditional clothes, learning calligraphy and seeing traditional performances. I was able to see part of a traditional music performance in which they were using a variety of different percussion instruments.

We know that summer is getting closer all the time as the humidity has slowly arrived and on Friday we got our first look at a summer rain shower.  The sun hasn't been out much the last couple days but it is still plenty warm.  At work they have been good about turning the air conditioning on in the classrooms but stepping out of a classroom and into the hallway is like stepping into a sauna.  Many times we would rather be outside than in the hallway or teacher's room.  It's kind of different being somewhere that has very distinct seasons.  In three months it seems like we have already seen three seasons!  That's quite different than the one or sometimes two seasons we are used to having in twelve months back home!

Here are a couple pictures of the Hanok Village.  Many more on Shutterfly.

 The village is located at the base of Mt. Namsan, the location of the N Seoul Tower

A performance using traditional percussion instruments