Much love,
For those of you who don't know what 6:01 is, my sincerest condolences to you that were not able to attend both the happiest and the greatest college in America. For those of you that do know, I am sure you will sympathize with me and the plight I faced whilst enduring my first ever "alone" 6:01. My definition of alone being that there were no other CMCer's present. The last time I spent 6:01 away from campus, also in korea, I had my dearest friend Ju-young at my side to revel in festivities with. more specifically, we went to a convenience store and drank and wore bro-tanks. It was a glorious occasion. This year, I spent the day hiking with my good friend Claire, who also happens to be a Hoosier. We got to see some of the best sites that Seogwipo has to offer and finished our 7 mile + hike at the world cup stadium outside of seogwipo (technically in "new" seogwipo). World Cup stadium was built for the 2002 World Cup held jointly between South Korea and Japan. The stadium has seen better days, but it is still a site to behold. It is a behemoth of a stadium, which means that even on the best attended games it looks kinda empty. Next to the stadium is the most "western" store on this side of the island, thus for dinner I had pizza, sushi, and beer. It was a glorious 6:01 and a rousing game- we won 6-2 I believe. Even though I missed CMC and all my five-C friends terribly this week, I can't really complain about my life here on the island. Much love,
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So this weekend, on Saturday, I hopped in a taxi and met my friend Claire. We proceeded to look around wildly to find the bus to Anduk (who knew the Seogwipo city bus terminal was all the way out by the world cup stadium??) Claire lives in Jeju-si but like the amazing person she is she agreed to meet me Seogwipo so that life was a little easier for us on our inaugural outing. From the bus terminal we hopped on the 702 to anduk and got off...and didn't find the trail. We probs walked around a good half hour until we found the actual trail hahaha. The directions were pretty good, but as we would soon learn, following the olle trails is not always super easy. The first part of the trail was beach followed by extreme hiking. I thought we were really in for it. Then once we got over the first hill everything was pretty easy paths. We had a terribly difficult time trying to follow the set course and ended up taking an hour jaunt along the coast but the views were 100% worth it. If you ever find yourself hiking Olle #10 though, be on the lookout for those little blue and red tags. Also, good luck finding the bus stop back. But find it we did! The weather wasn't always cooperating but I am so glad I got the chance to |
Author안녕! I'm Emmy and this is my blog detailing my life in Korea with Fulbright mainly through pictures. Feel free to contact me on my about page. TTFN Archives
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