Andong Mask Dance Festival

     Saturday we had our first statistics mid-term. We haven't gotten our grades back yet, but we think/hope it went fairly well.  This Wednesday we have our mid-term for our Management class, which seems like it's going to be challenging. It will consist of 5 essays only. She says it may take us the full 3 hours of class to finish... and it covers 8 chapters!! (wish us luck).

     On Sunday we made a last-minute choice to go to the Andong Mask Dance Festival. We took the train 2 and a half hours south-east to Andong with our good friends Dayle and Hee Kyung.         This is our 3rd straight year at this festival; it's one of our favorites. Dancers from all over the world come to this small Korean town to dance their traditional dances. Yesterday we got to watch Thailand, Korea, and Russia. In between shows we walked around the large festival grounds, and tried free samples of treats, beer, and even got to try our hand at calligraphy! After the last performance, we taxied into town and had a wonderful dinner of fried pork and gimchi (quite tasty). We didn't get back to Wonju until 10pm; our one day weekend flew right by!!

Last week H's middle school had mid-terms. The kids went home at 1pm to study for the next day, and the teacher's had sports day: we played kickball & dodgeball. 

Our car battery died, & a nice man in a tiny delivery truck was nice enough to jump us. (Right after I flashed them with the camera, sparks flew when he connected the wrong ends....oops).

Last weekend we had to write our group paper; Chomps wanted to be part of the action, too!

Hee Kyung, Dayle, B & H boarding the train to Andong.

A masked dancer from Thailand.

Two Thai dancers getting the audience involved.

Russian dancers.

They brought their legs over their locked arms!

Russia's Finale!