They took my temperature again today. Apparently when I arrived (the first thing they did was stick a thermometer in our ears) I was .5 degrees over the average and so they will continue to test me until it goes down. It hasn't so far so and I'm not sure what they will do when it doesn't. Ironically, I am still quite freezing here.
Yesterday was the Epik Orientation field trip. Part one was the Korean Folk Village. The most interesting part was definately the 65+ man on the tightrope. Next stop was a ceramic center in Icheon. After moseying around for a couple hours we got to paint out own ceramic coffee cups. I painted flowers on mine. Creative, I know. We finished the day with a banquet at a restaurant. Besides ceramics, Icheon is famous for it's rice and we were lucky enough to taste the best rice in the world. To the untrained palate, however, the only thing I noticed different was a big gray bean hidden in the pot. The dongdong ju (rice wine) far surpassed the rice in popularity within our crowd.
It was a nice day but I look back at my pictures and they're sad because they're either empty of people or have only me in them. The waegook in Korea who feels like she's back in 9th grade and just wishing she had some friends.
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