So this week was amazing! On Monday we had a field trip with our preschoolers. We took them to Children's Grand Park. This park was not so grand. In fact this park was quite depressing. We did not go on any of the rides or other attractions so I can not be the judge of that part of the park but the other part is what they would like to call a zoo, which was the depressing part. There were elephants, lions, tigers, leopards, monkeys, birds and a few other animals. All the animals had VERY small enclosures and looked a little rough. I felt very bad for all these animals and found it hard to even look at them.
On Wednesday I had the day off from work because it was Memorial day. I decided I would make the most of the day since it was beautiful outside. I walked to the Han River and laid on a mat overlooking the river for the day reading and listening to music. On my way back I stopped in at Olympic Park to walk around and take some pictures. Friday I had my first meeting with Jaewon, a friend of a friend, for our first language exchange meeting. He wants to practice his English conversation skills and I want to learn survival Korean so we were set up by a friend for a language exchange. We went to Lotte World, which is a mall/amusement park/ice skating rink and sat at a coffee shop for about three hours and just talked. I was a little disappointed that I did not have my camera with me, but I didn't realize we were meeting at such a cool place. He taught me directions for a taxi, money/counting system, greetings and a few other random phrases. I really enjoyed learning some of my survival Korean and I even got myself home in a taxi by myself without having to use the piece of paper that has my address written on it. I was pretty impressed with myself. We will be meeting once a week so I am excited to see what else I will learn throughout the year.
On Wednesday I had the day off from work because it was Memorial day. I decided I would make the most of the day since it was beautiful outside. I walked to the Han River and laid on a mat overlooking the river for the day reading and listening to music. On my way back I stopped in at Olympic Park to walk around and take some pictures. Friday I had my first meeting with Jaewon, a friend of a friend, for our first language exchange meeting. He wants to practice his English conversation skills and I want to learn survival Korean so we were set up by a friend for a language exchange. We went to Lotte World, which is a mall/amusement park/ice skating rink and sat at a coffee shop for about three hours and just talked. I was a little disappointed that I did not have my camera with me, but I didn't realize we were meeting at such a cool place. He taught me directions for a taxi, money/counting system, greetings and a few other random phrases. I really enjoyed learning some of my survival Korean and I even got myself home in a taxi by myself without having to use the piece of paper that has my address written on it. I was pretty impressed with myself. We will be meeting once a week so I am excited to see what else I will learn throughout the year. 
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