Wednesday, June 13th
Afternoon shift. No recollection of anything else.

Us doing stretches before the match

Thursday, June 14th
Before work Erin gave me and a few other girls dance lessons, teaching us the song Like This by the Wonder Girls. She wants to perform it in a flash mob at Expo and enter the video in a contest. Afterwards I had the afternoon shift, but I went in early to cover Bjorn's shift so he could play in the soccer match against Argentina. There's a soccer tournament that started among all the pavilions. The field is actually just an open space in between a couple of the pavilions. Anyway Bjorn decided he was too tired to play, so I played in his place while he promised to cover the first part of my shift, which turned out to be unnecessary. The game consisted of two 8-minute halves. Each team could have 4 players on the "field" at any time. One had to be Korean and one had to be female. So Argentina had three hard-core guys and the one required female, who just stood on the field in order for them to meet regulations. The poor girl was like terrified and even screamed once when the ball came near her. We, on the other hand, consisted of mostly females, which prompted one of the Argentinian players to ask if our whole team consisted of girls. I only played for about  a minute in the second half because I was so bad. It was a lot of fun though, even though we ended up losing 4-1. We were tied at half, but the second half of the game went downhill. Oh well.


Friday, June 15th
I worked a full day shift. After the shift, I went to Dunkin' Donuts to meet up with their employees. I talked with two of them, but I left after an hour out of exhaustion. It was 11 pm and I was super tired and they were about to go out and eat, so I figured it was a good time to leave. They also wanted to go out and eat 삼겹살 (sam-gyeop-sal, thick bacon), which I obviously can't eat, so it was a good time to leave.


Saturday, June 16th

I worked the morning shift. Afterwards I went shopping downtown with Eunice, Esther, and Grace. They were on a hunt for shoes, but Korean shoes definitely don't fit me, so I just browsed around without buying anything. On our way back to the Expo we ran into Pete and then all of us headed over to the Expo Hall for a performance by Quartetto di Sassofoni Accademia. When we passed through the security, Pete and I got separated from everyone else. The gate area is so small, I have no idea how it happened, but it didn't really matter. After the performance we all met back up outside, at which time we were also joined by Madison and James, and then we walked down to the port to tour a ship for the Korean Navy, but tours had stopped at seven so we missed it by like a half hour. So we all just went straight out to dinner at the Blue House, a restaurant right outside of Expo. Everyone else ate 삼겹살 (sam-gyeop-sal, thick bacon) while I got 된장찌개 (soy bean paste stew). After that there was another dance practice for the flash mob. The chorus part wasn't that hard, but the first verse convinced me I was not cut out for performing. I would have to devote way too much time to learn the dance at any real level of proficiency.


Sunday, June 17th
I spent the morning catching up on stuff, like doing laundry and homework. Then I went to the pavilion and met up with Rachel, Madison, Eric, Sara, and Erin. We all headed over to the Samsung Pavilion to go see it (me for a second time), but found out we needed to wait another 40ish minutes for the next performance. Erin and I were hungry so we scurried off to the Belgium Pavilion along with Rachel to get some Belgian fries. Then we headed back to the Samsung Pavilion and watched the acrobatic performance. 

After that Rachel and I decided we wanted to explore Yeosu, so we went and waited at the bus stop outside of the Expo, but it was taking forever for a bus to come, so we grabbed some fruit juice at a cafe and headed to a different bus stop. There we waited only a couple minutes before jumping on the first bus that came, lucky number 88. We rode it for awhile outside of the area we were familiar with and then the area I dubbed Tire Town because it consisted all of auto repair shops and tire stores. Finally though we hit an area that looked interesting and got off to explore. The first thing we came across was this tunnel (see two pictures above). We were intrigued to find out what was past it so we walked up the whole hill to find out there was indeed nothing past it. 

Then we went on a hunt to get close to this colorful school building and get a picture of it. When we walked up an alley to take a picture of the school we also happened upon this green car with band-aids covering up its dents (see two pictures above). I thought that was pretty awesome. 


Walking down the sidewalk along one of the main roads, we came across fish murals. This one (lower right) though was definitely my favorite. We realized while walking around that nothing was open because it was Sunday. We decided we needed to go on a search for a restaurant to eat at because we wanted to try a new place and not eat around Expo for once. It was a challenge though just to find a restaurant that was even open. When we finally found one, we walked a bit farther to make sure nothing else was open and then we immediately backtracked and ate there. I got 콩나물 국밥 (bean sprout soup with rice and egg). The egg was mostly uncooked and served in a separate bowl, so I assumed you dumped it in your soup to cook. I was definitely not going to eat it otherwise. I asked the restaurant owner to double check and make sure I wasn't making any eating faux pas, but she said that was indeed what I was supposed to do with the egg thankfully. The soup was pretty good, although the flavor wasn't that strong. I think, as Rachel pointed out, it would be a good thing to eat while you're sick since it's not too strong.

After dinner, we came across the movie theatre I had gone to back in May to see the Avengers. We thought about seeing a movie, although there were only about 5 movies to choose from. Most of them if not all of them weren't new releases as they were playing movies that had even been released up to about 4 years ago.  We agreed upon one movie, but we had an hour to kill so we went back outside and walked down the nearest alley and discovered these murals. Right next to them was a small exercise area with a couple machines and a basketball court. We sat down on one of the benches, but since we were getting eaten alive by mosquitoes and I needed the restroom, we headed back to the movie theatre. We then went into an adjoining cafe and split some berry forest and yogurt ice cream. I think it was supposed to be frozen yogurt, but it was marketed as ice cream. Not really sure. Anyway, after an hour had gone by we realized that we were tired and would rather just head back to the apartments, which is what we did.


Also sorry the photos are placed weird. I spent so much time trying to get them to be positioned in a logical way, but blogger refuses to allow me to do so, causing them not to be placed next to the text about them.