School Trip

On 16 July, me and my classmates and other class went to have a school trip. We went to a city called 공주 [GongJu] not far from Daejeon.  First place is a temple which name is 영평사 [YeongPyeongSa]. We were welcomed by a monk and then we were served with a cup of tea called 연꽃 차 [YeonKkutCha] which means Lotus tea. 맜있었다!!

And then after that, teng teng teng ㅋㅋㅋ the big job is coming! So three of us were kindly willing to help the monk to get the leaves of Lotus. What for? you will see. Anyway, we had to wear this funny rubber clothes and I really looked like a Mario. And out task was taking the leaves of Lotus ... at the swamp ... ㅋㅋ I know, it was scary but there were no snakes or crocodiles though. But really, it was really hard to move as you had to step on the mud.

Even though we were so tired and the job was very difficult (and the weather was very hot) we finally collected a lot of leaves so that we could eat for that day. *sigh we really had to work really hard for our stomach.

So ... the leaves was then for wrapping the rice. In temple, monk do not eat any kind of meat, so we have to eat this red rice mixed with several kinds of bean. So, the rice was put on the leaves (of course it was cleaned first) and then we wrapped it and we waited for several minutes. But, because we were really hungry, we just ate it anyway. My tongue did not really agree with the taste though. Anyway, the guys seemed to like it ^^.

After that, we once again drunk the tea and then ready to go to the next place.

The next place is Gongsanseong Fortress. It is a fortress inside the city, but because the guide was speaking in Korean, I did not really understand about this fortress.

And then we went straight to Gongju National Museum where we could see the discovery of the King which I forget his name. They said the King was very big and the shoe size is enormous. Anyway, it was interesting.

Then we went back to Daejeon.

Hey ... that leave could be a hat too ^^

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7/23/2010