Tuesday, June 12th

A group of us went on a tour of the China Pavilion in morning since so many of China's pavilion workers had visited our pavilion. The first part of the pavilion was a video about this girl in ancient times. She went out with her father to go fishing in the seas. The first couple times they were fishing, they caught huge bounties of fish. However, there stopped being fish as garbage, like plastic bags, entered the seas...in ancient times. But no worries because 20 years later the girl is all grown up and now operates an underwater rover that magically cleans all the water by sucking it in and removing all the trash before spraying back out the pure and clean water. Then there's a blip on her radar, so she rushes off and saves a dolphin from being caught in a net. Thank you China for giving us a pragmatic way to save our oceans.


After that Dana, Madison, Anne and I toured some of the pavilions. Samsung's consisted of an acrobatics performance, which was cool, but I'm not really sure how it connected to the oceans.

 

Lotte's pavilion was probably what Koreans thought most pavilions would be like. They had a pre-show in this fake oversized garden that was honestly horrible. These poor four employees were wearing flower outfits and making buzzing sounds instead of talking for like five minutes straight. Then they had to play instruments in their ridiculous outfits. Their main show was really cool though. You went into a theatre that looked like a hot air balloon. The video was of landscapes and cityscapes as you would see them from a hot air balloon and the floor actually shakes and moves up and down too to make the effect seem real. The only problem was I got motion sick so I had to sit down. 


After Lotte, we also went to Qatar to get some henna again. Then we went to Mexico's pavilion, which just opened this week. The video just consisted of beautiful pictures of Mexico's beaches, ruins, and women essentially. The best part of the video was this stringray that leaps out of the ocean. So entertaining. This isn't the clip from the video, but here's a youtube link if anyone is interested because it's just so comical to see stringrays jump out of the water (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjDYKTYNacI).

By this time it was well past lunch time and we were all really hungry. We looked around for some place known for their 김치찌개 (kimchi jjigae, kimchi stew) that a couple of them had been to once before, but they forgot how to get there so we abandoned trying to find it. Instead we ate at another place that served good 찌개 (stews). Afterwards we all headed back to the apartments and I spend the afternoon doing laundry and watching the drama. Then in the evening Madison and Dana came over and we made (well improvised how to make) 김치 볶음밥, which actually turned out pretty well. After they left I finally finished the drama and felt accomplished for no reason.