April update

Wow, it has been a while since I have written in the blog! Time really just flies by

The first day of April we woke up early to go to Seoul and participate in the successful aging lecture. We got to hear from prominent medical doctors in the area of neuroscience, a lecture from Dr. Jesse Jones from California State University and a lecture from Dr. Ilchi Lee. It was a very interesting day.
Since then we have been busy going to many lectures and events all over Korea.
On April 12 we went to Masan YEHA night and I was the lecturer for this day. i was nervous and all day thought about how to make the best presentation. That night everyones heart was so open I really enjoyed sharing my experience with all of the people there.
In this blog I wanted to share about the last couple of days when we got to go to the Sunheung Culture and Historic center. We actually stayed here for one night and got to do many activities during the next day. It was really great because this place was built remembering how Korea was 500 years ago so living here really felt as if we had all gone back in time. Before we went to bed we did some training where we had to stand on one leg for 20 min. the meditation was great and i found out that I could do something that at first seemed almost impossible with it not being as hard as I had imagined it to be. We then had a really good nights sleep where I had an interesting dream about Taewangsashingi (which by the way is a really awesome Korean Drama really full of action and fictional historic content but awesome none the less) and our group and HSP 12 step (which is for us to learn to walk on our hands) so I woke up all in the mood to walk around a 500 year old village. We also learned some calligraphy although it was very short and I just learned that it is really quite hard. There was not really any in depth explanation about it but being surrounded by Korean culture you can feel how powerful the calligraphy is.
We also got the chance to make rice cake by pounding steamed rice against a wooden table and making it a big ball of mush. Then we dipped it in a kind of peanut powder and ate it, so delicious and strength building at the same time (pounding is a lot of work!). We also had the opportunity to have some green tea and enjoy it with some traditional snacks. After a really good lunch and some sugar coffee we experienced a traditional wedding ceremony from that time period. It was very funny seeing everyone dressed up and trying to bow with their costumes. I was glad to be the camera man this time.
We then went to a YEHA night where Ashely gave her talk. We met some great people that we will see again at may camp. We even had another dinner since a member went out and bought us a lot of chicken. We then had a long ride home back to Kook Hak Won where we were lucky and got to watch another episode of the great Korean drama. We still had some training to do that night and then off to bed. All in all it was a good week, everyday learning new things about Korean culture and history and about myself.