My 3 Day Weekend in Busan

This past weekend was a 3 day weekend for Buddha's birthday so I took a trip to Busan. On Sunday night we ate at TGIFridays to have all the foods we have difficulty finding here: Caesar salad, good Mexican, guacamole, pasta, bruschetta, steak, wings, and more. To make the experience even better, we ate outside and this was our view:

Rice cakes

I feel that Koreans are trying to make me fat today with all this food. Because it is sports day, I have been given burgers, soda watermelon, regular lunch and now these rice cakes. Eek!

Sports Day

Today my school is having sports day so the entire day is just filled with sports competitions such as soccer, arm wrestling, tug of war, races, soccer, and more.

Pumpkin and rice drink

This is another one of the many random foods and drinks that my Korean co teachers give me. This one is a pumpkin and rice drink that is supposed to be good for health. It's a little sweet, but it's very subtle so its not like pumpkin pie. It is still good though-- tastes more natural.

Flower bushes.

Once the cherry blossom trees are over I've notices that there are now many bushes like this with very beautiful flowers in them in a wide array of colors. These are just some of the bushes on front of my school.

Vitamin drink

Korea has quite a variety of drinks at their mini marts. This is one of the vitamin drinks I decided to try... apparently it gives you vitamins AND confidence. I've had a vitamin c drink that tasted better than this one -- this is pretty flat.

Oriental Medicine: Part 4

To give a little update on the oriental medicine/acupuncture, it has been working quite well.  I will admit that a few days I was really wondering if it was working because I had one day where I had bad heartburn and felt really fatigued.  However, I was very impressed when I went in for a treatment that day.  I couldn't translate to tell him the issue since I didn't have my phone in my hand, but all he did was check my pulse and asked to look at my tongue and he said "no energy".  I don't know what "mapping" he did for the needles that day but it certainly gave quick results!

The one main thing I noticed with acupuncture is that it takes away any stress.  When I'm done, I often feel like I just finished a yoga session -- calm, relaxed, and tired.

I did ask him about getting treatment for seasonal allergies, but the procedures involves sticking a needle into the side of your nostril, moving it a bit, and then taking it out then do the other side.  It then causes the nose to bleed, so you blow all the blood out.  I would've had to do that procedure 10 times over 10 days (like this treatment).  Needless to say, I turned that one down.