Field Trip!

This week we went on a field trip with our school.  We went to visit the old palace of the old Prince.  We also went to a museum dedicated to the man who created the Korean alphabet as well as a man who led the Koreans in the war against Japan.

This is at the old palace.  We love our jobs.

The old palace is right in the middle of the city.

This is the statue of the man who created the Korean alphabet.

We leave early tomorrow to go to Busan, South Korea!  Busan is a beach town in the south part of South Korea.  We will be staying for two nights, and arrive back on Monday.  We get Monday through Thursday off because it is the Korean Thanksgiving holiday.  For the Korean Thanksgiving it is tradition to dress up in traditional Korean attire and go visit the graves of past ancestors to give thanks to them for all they did.

Ryan and I are very excited to have a few days to travel and explore, though we are a little nervous to try to figure things out without knowing the language in a city we have never been to.  We have been so lucky to have our advisor, (Mi-ye), translating everything for us since we have been in Seoul.  Too bad she isn't coming with us on our trip...