The Work Week That Wouldn't End

Friday, July 6th
In the morning there was a beach clean-up at 만성리 (the infamous "black sand" beach Manseongni). Philippe Cousteau Jr. was there to clean the beach with us and the mayor of Yeosu made a brief appearance to thank us ahead of time for our work. Our pavilion coordinated the event, but I think over 30 countries at the International Pavilion had workers volunteer for it, so there was a lot of people. We were supposed to work for 3 hours, but it started drizzling about an hour in so they just called the rest of it off. I was really surprised though because we had been warned ahead of time we would work rain or shine and it was only sprinkling. Anyway, after that we went on a bus tour of Yeosu, which I'm not going to lie, wasn't that interesting. I think we crossed the 4th longest bridge in the world at one point. A Korean on the bus volunteered to be the English interpreter and he seemed pretty pumped about speaking English, but I think he got a bit overzealous. He announced we were crossing that bridge, but it didn't seem all that long, only for him to stand up a couple minutes later and apologize saying he had misspoken and now we were crossing the 4th longest bridge. It was admittedly a really, really long bridge. But it was just a bridge like one finds on the highway, only going on forever. We were also super sleepy, so we mainly just enjoyed relaxing in such nice buses and chatting.

Afterwards Rachel and I bought pizza for lunch while watching the drama Big. We got margherita pizza and snow garlic pizza, but the snow garlic pizza was a disaster. It was so gross, we ended up just throwing 90% of it away. Korean pizza and American pizza are somewhat different in that Korean pizza tends to be much sweeter.

Afterwards I worked the afternoon shift for someone else.

Saturday, July 7th
I worked a full day shift - my scheduled afternoon shift and someone else's morning shift.

Sunday, July 8th
I worked a full day shift again - my scheduled afternoon shift and someone else's morning shift. The two morning shifts I took were so that I could volunteer at the North Korean refugee camp at the end of July for 2 days.

Monday, July 9th
I worked a full day shift yet again because I had the morning shift and I worked Erin's afternoon shift since I owed her a day for taking my PM shift in June so I could see 김정훈 (Kim Jung Hoon).