South Korea Day 2

Hello South Korea! At Incheon International Airport.

After about 4 hours and 30 minutes in the plane, we have officially landed at the Incheon International Airport, South Korea! We then ride on a bus for another 3 hours to our destination, the Okcheon and Modan School. Doctor Yun and Mr. Kim were there to welcome our arrival. Mr. Kim presented a slide show on the activities and purposes of the school and he emphasized on "Sarangbang". Sarangbang is a project based on the concept of 'People Makes the City'. It involves public cultural activities with the villagers, having a closer contact with local community, and use of abandoned hair-shop for the project. Their main activities were reading, watching movie and program development for the multi-cultural community and their children. Amongst programmes for multi-cultural community that was held before were "Cook the Poem" in the year 2009 where they had chat about their culture through a cooking session followed by "Cook the Life" which was a combined cooking and counseling program in the year 2010.

Geng blakang bas -Michael, Michelle, Adam, Me & Serena. We were on our way to Okcheon and Modan School.

With darling Beny. I can't recall the name of this place. We stopped by a little while for some snacks where I had Dunkin Donuts

Behind the truck that transported us and our bags to the school. I was all hyped up!

The welcoming banner for the Sabahans. Thank you with love!


Attentively listening to Mr. Kim

After the brief explanation made by Doctor Yun and Mr. Kim, we proceeded to ceramic mug painting. We get to design our very own mug which was out of my expertise. *smirks* Towards afternoon, we had our very first meal in a foreign place, which also means foreign taste and the thought of "saaadaaap ka tu ah?" It turned out ok lah! He he heh.

With our mugs

All that I could think of to paint on my mug. Is that even painting?

My very 'artistic' side!

Lunch - white rice + bull's eye egg + kimchii (this was a torture to my starving tummy)

Dr. Yun brought us for BMW RIDING around the school. BMW - not the car. It meant sightseeing, sightseeing by feet. Done with sightseeing, we then watched the students of the school perform Salmonari in an open space stage area. Salmonari in Malaysia is similar to the Pancaragam, but using their very own traditional instruments. Despite the languange barrier, I appreciate all their efforts in teaching us to play and eventually we sounded right and cool yo! ;-P

Sherry and I. She's a sturdent there. Very helpful and can speak English!

Salmonari session. The session where awkward sign languanges came in handy

Before we head for *shrugs* dinner, we did two rounds of rehearsals at the open stage. After dinner, we got back into the bus and headed to the village we were to perform. 6 of my friends involved in the Pinakang dance (lthank good...ness I wasn't in the dance, I was bad at Pinakang..real bad) had to perform in an unusual cold weather. The remaining of us watched from not so far, in a tahan sejuk air~~

Left to right - Serena, Eleena, Bosco, Jerry, Ira & Kathleen

Sharin, Beny & I at our seats

As soon as they finished performing, we were finally brought to the place where we were to stay for 2 nights. We the girls had our own house and the boys with the teachers in another house. There, we met Jaramier Joibi, a KDCA-ISCEP Alumni and currently pursuing his studies in one of the university in Korea. We had him to share with us his experience and oh boy, you should have listened to him talk Korean, super fluent! Soon after, we the girls got back to our house and goodnight, it was indeed a long day.

Oh wait!

My girls and I having our supper... Maggi (Malaysian Maggi!) before bed!
Now,Goodnight!