(this post is a little dated...sorry, haven't had internet for a few days...but here you go for the time being...)
two more days then i'm out of cheongju for good...we found out yesterday where we were all headed. i am going to a tiny town in gangwon province called hwacheon. it has a population of about 25000...hmmm...it's about 30mins or so from where i really wanted to be with family but you know what can you do...make the best of a bad situation right? so i'm going to be a hick in a small town...so please, if you feel the urge to take a breather from your hustle and bustle lives come and stay with me in the countryside!

other than that i have been busy. my new friends and i have formed a really good circle and we have been doing all sorts of crazy things together. before going to seoul last weekend we went on a fieldtrip organised by the program. first we went to the house of one of korea's most well respected and prolific artists named unbo...he died a little while ago but apparently his legacy lives on...here is uncle unbo and bean... and these are some of my friends...back, L to R...
seung jin, james, andy, ben, bean and darree...feels like i've known these people for the longest time....
after unbo's place we visited an early printing museum and learnt a little about the oldest printed text which was created in korea...the jikji...it's currently in some museum in france but i guess the koreans would want it back seeing as it's so valuable. anyways we were able to do some printing ourselves...