K Water, Korea's water company, is the company that funds our school and the company that pays me, so this past Saturday, October 8th, we brought about 40 students and their parents and some siblings to visit their facilities and to check out the Soyanggang Dam that they operate. The Soyanggang Dam is no Hoover Dam that's for sure.
We met Mr. Bang, our K Water liason, who breifly explained to the kids how a dam works and what it does (he spoke in Korean so I am assuming this is what he did), then we waked around the K Water grounds and stopped in their ecological park. Here the kids played a scavenger hunt with the teachers' names then they sang a song for their parents and Mr. Bang.
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| Lily and Jessica found my name! |
After the ecological park we took a lunch break and went to a dak galbi restaurant, which is Chuncheon's specialty food, and is what Chuncheon is famous for. Dak galbi is pretty much a stir fry with chicken, cabbage, green onions, rice cakes, and like almost all Korean food, it is very spicy. The dak galbi was cooked traditionally, in a stir fry pot that's built into the center of the table. Dak galbi is definitely one of my favorite Korean foods so far.
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| Scraping the last of the Dak Galbi |
We headed back to the dam where we got special access to the dam, thanks to our K Water affiliation. We got to actually drive and walk over the dam (which the public does not get to do) and we also got access to this higher look out point where we took a million pictures. All the parents wanted to take pictures of their kids with the foreign teachers, all the kids wanted pictures with us, and I even took pictures with just me and a bunch of moms. Since I was the new teacher, I was the new toy thing, so it was non stop pictures and smiling while we were at the look out.
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| The beautiful lookout ledge |
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| The Soyang River. You can see the dam on the left |
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| James. One of the smartest kids that I teach |
After taking so many pictures my cheeks hurt, we went to the other side of the dam and went to the dam's museum which was pretty lame, then we went on a boat ride left from right next to the dam, and went in circles on the river back to the dam. Right next to the dam there were performances put on by K Water that we got to watch, which were really entertaining for the kids, and I was really impressed by.
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| Alex and Sam. They look sweet and innocent now. But they're not. |
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| One of our students, Max, was chosen to perform with the magician |
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| The Drum group |
All in all, it was a long, tiring, yet surprisingly fun day. And we get to do it all over again in 2 weeks.
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| Koreans, all decked out in their hiking gear, even though there were no trails in the area. I love them. |
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