Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Tuesday, April 6

Today was quite a busy day. We first visited Chonbuk National Universtiy or CBNU. We heard a rpesentation by their admission office then recieved a tour of the CBNU from two students.




Here is our group after the tour. CBNU has over 30,000 students and it looked and felt like being on any larger school's campus anywhere in the US, except with Korean students.

Below is a cold noodle soup which we had for lunch, they seriously feed us every two hours. Food is good, but let's face it when I'm full all the time that's lots of food.


PArt of learnign about Korea is learning culture and the food. Here is GSE Team member Ruth, with her "Bunny chopsticks". They help people learn how to use chopsticks. In the photo below that one of the Jeonju Rotarians, Mr. Choi, gives Ruth a lesson on chopstick use. In Korea all the chopsticks are made of metal and are tougher to use then the ones we are used to in Asian restaraunts in the US.

After lunch we visited a farm. The weather in Korea is much cooler then Memphis. TO utilize the land better there are greenhouses everywhere. This one grew among other things tulips, Lillies, and strawberries. The people in the picture below the tulips were kind enough to share their freshly picked strawberries with us. The people in Korea are so freindly and kind!!


After touring the farm, more food. I wasn't kidding about feeding us all the time. Below is Korean BBQ and then some seafood grilled at the table. They put hot wood coal in the bins at the table and you cook the food their. You wrapt the meat and onions into lettuce wraps. Think of it like a Korean "fajita".

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