Time that flies...

This past two weeks has been packed with things that I'm forgetting what I did and eat this past week. During the school week, We've had Korean class from 1:30 till 5:30 everyday at Sogang University. Then twice a week in the morning or evening, we've done some kind of activity with our University Buddies. On top of that, as a whole program group, we've gone to a lecture on Korean culture/society and this past Wednesday, learnt about traditional Mask Dancing. Although we tried to learn a part of the dance, 4 hours still wasn't long enough even to get through one time of the dance. Boiled down, Korean Mask Dancing is an operatic drama with music, dialogue and dance. It's kind of like Shakespeare mixed in with Wagner or Mozart.

Last weekend, my host family and I spent the weekend in Yeoju (여주). Besides being the Korean center for ceramics, It also has the Tomb of King Sejong. King Sejong is known for inventing the Korean written language of Hanguel (한글). This helped all Koreans to become literate overnight. Besides his tomb, which is set on a large mound of earth surrounded by traditional houses and plains of grass, Yeoju has a large ceramics museum and a traditional wood crafted art museum. The Mok Museum specialized not only in wooden Buddhist art but also in stone art. At the Ceramics museum, not only were Korean ceramics shown but also international pieces too. Honestly, I couldn't ever imagine ceramics as art like those shown at the museum. Some were people. Some were furniture and some were even dresses. The exhibits really took multiple forms of art and mixed them together.

There's so much more to tell you besides this one past weekend but I'll have to save them for my next post. Thank you all for reading and commenting on my blog, it really means alot. Till next time!