A beautiful day with Cherry Blossoms

Spring announces its arrival with a blanket of pink and white cherry blossoms. It’s an amazing time. Every year there is a cherry blossom festival in South Korea. 

Tour de Korea

Many of the international student participated in Tour de Korea to celebrate bicycle day.

Unfortunately the weather was not on our side. But we had a wonderful day and I got to meet the President of Korea Lee Myung-Bak! 

The President of South Korea Lee Myung-Bak and I 

Up and down the mountain with ari class in Anyang

Gyeongbokgung Palace

The Gyeongbokgung was first constructed in 1394 and reconstructed in 1867, it was the main and largest palace of the Five Grand Palaces built by the Joseon Dynasty. The name of the palace, Gyeongbokgung, translates in English as "Palace of Shining Happiness."

Gyeongbokgung Palace is located in the northern part of Seoul. 

 

Making Bulgogi -My favorite Korean dish

Bulgogi is a Korean dish. It consists of marinated barbecued beef made with soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, garlic, pepper, onions etc. This dish is actually number 23 on the Worlds most delicious foods readers’ poll by CNN.

Bulgogi means, ”fire meat” in Korean 

The Girls cooked Bulgogi –It was very delicious!

Bulgogi

Bon appetit 

Cindy and Hyunji is preparing....

안녕하세요.

Active Korean

Two times a week I have Korean language for 3 hours. So far we are learning the alphabet called Hangeul, how to present ourselves and order food. 

Hangeul was developed under King Sejong’s reign in the 15th century Korean script should be one of the worlds most intelligently designed and phonetically consistent alphabets used today. Hangeul consists  of 24 characters. 

Active Korean class

Active Korean class

Ari Leadership

Ari Leadership class. 

 One of my subjects at Anyang University is Ari leadership. Also called beautiful leader. This subject is very much related to the schools philosophy Brighten One Corner. The cornerstone of the Brighten One Corner philosophy is being able to restore my own identity.

Today we had to do some exercises to make our body and mind connect. This is a step in the process of finding ourselves and becoming beautiful leaders.