Easter Whimsey

Welcome back to Geoff's Asian Adventure!


So... roughly 4 months left in Korea.


WOW! How time has flown by. It is already the start of May!!!


This post goes out to my 3 South African posted imediate Family members. It was Colin's Birthday 3 days after the events of this post took place and it was also my parents 30th Anniversary the day after that. So this one is for you 3 amazing people :)


As the title suggests this is a post about the happenings of Easter weekend. April has been a slow month and yet again we chose to rest up and enjoy a leisurely easter weekend with Face Painting and Egg Dying. and really... there is not much more to say other than enjoy the first of two video's covering those 6 hours.




To find out what happend next let me introduce you to someone:


(A warning to our sensitive viewers - the "graphic" nature of some of these visuals might be disturbing... well not really, but that was what I was going for :-P )



I thought to try and keep the visual appeal of this post going, here are some spring pictures from the area around one of my schools and also of my city.

The month of May is going to be quite a month as I am off to Busan; Tongyeong; some hot springs and a few other things I am sure, so keep safe and keep logging on!

Geoff OUT!

My Average Day in Korea shown to you in the space of 5min 52sec

I took my camera with me to school one day so that I could show you one day in my life.

This was the result. Enjoy :)

Blossom(s), Bubbles, and Buttercup (well Tulips)... It's finally Spring time!

*Enters virtual confessional*
*Clears throat, and swallows nervously*


Forgive me followers for I have sinned.
It has been 2 weeks since my last post (I think).


*The weight of the appology lifted, sits up straight and sends fingers into a frenzy of activity*


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Hi there.


How are you? No seriously, I sincerely want to know how you are? *takes a sip of rediculously sweet Korean instant coffee*


I am glad to hear that :)


How am I? Well thanks for asking...


Post my birthday weekend I'd say that my blood alcohol levels have finally returned to normality and I have just about recovered from a rather nasty bout of Tonsillitis brought on by this...

CHINESE YELLOW DUST: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Dust


Apparently.

Luckily for me I was sufficiently recovered by Friday night to head of to Daegu, with Sandy, where we had dinner at Bennigans...

... and hopped on a bus (after some confusions as to which bus and then which bus stop) to the part of Daegu where my newly-arrived-to-Korea, friends-from-back-home, Pedro & Kirstey, stay. We spent the night with them (catching up and sharing experiences) and woke up bright eyed...

...and bushy tailed at 06:00 on Saturday morning, to head to the train station. We were catching a train to Masan...

What we saw at the train station

From where we would catch a bus to Jinhae to see the 49th "Jinhae Gunhangje Festival".



This is (apparently) the best place in Korea to see the arrival of spring with the blooming of thousands of cherry blossoms. It was here where we met the very cool Joanne and Chad Newton - a couple who were friends of our friends, whom they had met on their orrientation. Sandy and I then realised... we were on a couples day out :-P Pedro&Kirstey, Joanne&Chad, Sandy&Geoff and later we were joined by Hanri&Elizabeth (Joubert). Fun times in relationshipville :-D


During our travels toward the festival this is what Sandy and I were expecting in our very imaginative minds eyes:

This is what we actually saw when we arrived:

It was no less beautiful though.

Sandy and I had been to a few fests thus far so we were the wise young heads of the day. We were with 6 people who had not, as yet, been to a Korean festival. They were not to know that all festivals had the same vibe and the same stalls (there were even masking making stations like the ones we frequented at the Andong Mask Fest last year). And so they were all rareing to go as fast as possible to see as much as possible inthe timewe were there. Sandy and I were just happy to to enjoy the sunshine, warmth and pretty blossoms on the trees. I think if I could choose, my phrase for the day to the other 6 would be: "Just chill and enjoy the sights, sounds and warm weather - no need to rush"

We did a lot of walking and Sandy got a straberry jam waffle, and me McCain chips, in batter, on a sick, for lunch. Later we endulged in some ice cream too. The highlight was heading to the top of the valley and seeing a 360 view of the landscape with spots of white in the hills, where trees could be found to be in bloom.

We climbed this many steps:

...to be able to see that!

We attempted to get to the coast to see the tree lined beach but we had a silly little navel base in the way so that proved unsuccessful. We did take a nice long walk on a very straight road lined with blossoms. And we took a lot of photo's.

Getting back to Masan proved adventurous as it normally does when you leave festivals. There were so many people waiting for busses that you would be lucky if you did not have to wait for a couple of busses to pass before you could board one that was empty enough.

This was amongst a row of sensible signs like: Don't cycle, Don't litter, No smoking. BUT for the life of me I can't understand what they were trying to get across here - No wrapping your finger in bandages?

Sandy and I got separated due to this fact of festivals in Korea. As it turned out Sandy arrived at the Masan train station only about 5 min before I did despite me waiting for 15min for another bus that I could get on. The way back to Yeongcheon entailed sleep-arrive at Dongdeagu, walk to another train, sleep, walk to taxi, walk to respective flats, and finally sleep. It was a very relaxing if travel busy Saturday, with great old and new friends. Thanks to Sandy, Pedro, Kirsty, Chad, Joanne, Hanri and Elizabeth for making it a memorable trip!

Oh... quick cap on Sunday:

07:45 - woke up

11:57 - caught a train to Deagu with Sandy

12:45 - find Sushi restaurant and eat Sushi for lunch

13:30ish - get McD's soft serve ice cream for dessert and head to HomePlus

15:15 - Board train back to YC following successful cereal purchasing.

16:00 Through the rest of the day: Chatted to folks, had dinner, watched "Dispicable Me", watched Mumbai beat Delhi in the IPL, slept.

There. Done. Now you know how I am :)

Until next time this has been Geoff's Asian Adventure....