Blood Typing

Ever since I've been in Korea, all the websites I vist know I'm in Korea, and are asking me questions appropriate to that.  Would I like this page in Korean?  Would I like it translated?  Would I like to add my Korean name to my Facebook page?  What is my blood type for my profile on Facebook?

Wait a second.  What about that last one?

Turns out that Koreans say that blood type can indicate personality.  Kind of like our horoscopes at home.  My personality does seem to closely match my blood type (A), which means that I am kind of shy, perfectionistic, and sweet.  The perfectionistic part was confirmed when I showed my dormmates something on my laptop and had to move my keyboard protecter . . . yeah.  I'm a bit of a nerd.

I meant to mention yesterday that I ate something that I didn't know what it was at lunch . . . and even when my roommate explained, I still didn't know what it was.  I had never heard of "bracken" before, but I ate it and it wasn't bad.

As to today's activities, we had a lecture on Korean history, and this was followed by some talk on Korean family dynamics.  It was quite interesting, but I don't think I have ever been so lost in a lecture before.  Mainly it was because the lecturer was so intelligent, talked so fast, and Korean history is so confusing.  I never realized how easy we have it in the US only having to take care of 300 years of domestic events.

After that was lunch, which in part featured french fries, which we delicious.  We also ate with forks and knives today, which was different.  It seems to be that when there is a large chunk of meat to be consumed, forks and knives are supplied.  Not eating meat, it just means that I get to eat Korean food with non-Korean utensils.

After lunch, we left to visit a pottery-making museum and workshop.  We also got a chance to make our own pottery, but mainly it was us just touching the clay while the potter worked.  After the cups/bowls/vases were formed, we got to carve our desired designs into the pottery.  I made / watched the making of a bowl with double sides . . . hard to explain, but when we get it back from the kiln, hopefully I will be able to take a picture and show what it's like.  The experience was kind of like extremely guided early-stage Paint-Some-Pottery.

There was also a large artist's co-op attached to the pottery museum (at least I think it was a co-op . . . kind of hard to tell precisely when everything is in Korean . . . ), but I didn't buy anything there.  Partly because I left my wallet on the bus (not like I lost it, but we were told we could leave our belongings on the bus until we got back, and I didn't know shopping would be optionally involved), but partly because I don't need anything.  Especially given that I'll get my piece of pottery that I made back just in time to figure out a way to shove it into my luggage.  I'll definitely need to use the duffle bag that I brought for extra clothes, though I might be able to fit everything into my main suitcase, I'd definitely go over the weight limit.

It was our first rainy day today, and it's also the first day that I didn't take any pictures.  Good, because I'm soon going to get terribly confused out of everything that I've photographed.

In about five minutes I have to leave to work on the first of our "Group Discussion Papers."  Though no one really knows how we're going to go about this, apparently we are going to meet in a group of about 12 people, all discuss something, and then write a paper about it.  All this evening.  And we don't know how long it's supposed to be, or what about.  Scary.

I hate group projects.  I'm a loner when it comes to academics.