Weekend #10

Saturday we tried to take a ship out to Maemuldo Island because it's the posterchild of all the islands in the area. After futily trying to get information online we jumped in a cab and went to the boat terminal. When we got there we ran into someone who happened to speak some English and took us up to the ticket counter to tell us the the coast guard decided the weather was too bad for passenger ships. Since this was our third attempt to take this trip it was a little disheartening but we consoled ourselves with Baskin Robbins and tour of a local temple here in town. Sunday Brandon called the ticket office and was able to wrestle an answer whether ships were going to the island: yes, in half an hour. We through our shit together and jumped in a cab. We made it on the ship and it's first call was at Hansando, the island we went to last time we couldn't go to Maemuldo ('do' is the suffix for 'island' ['sa'=temple {san= mountain}]). We killed an hour waiting for our boat to leave and then we headed for Maemuldo. It turns out our boat only drove around the island and did not actually stop. While we were quite jealous of the people walking on the island just seeing it was pretty incredible. One more week of class before our big vacation for Thanksgiving. Plans are still in the works because you have to beat information on schedules out of Koreans (mostly our directors). Until next time....