Crazy Awesome Foot Massage; Yonggungsa Temple

Another sweet day today. One of my co-workers, 지인 picked me up today at 11am and we headed off to her parent's house for lunch. Again, another
fantastic meal, and her family is so nice! No surprise there though.

We left shortly after eating, and she took me around the apartment complex where her parents lived, which is a new development. We walked around for a while - quite beautiful. There were a few different waterfall type situations, and a great view. Then she took me to this place that you see in the first three pictures - basically it's a fere foot massage - and it is AMAZING. You take off your shoes, and walk over the different textures, as you can see below (I have more pictures but they won't all

fit so if you want to see more email me and let me know!) Oh man it felt SO GOOD.

After that, we went to her apartment and she helped me with Korean for a while. It was great! I felt bad though because we worked at it for a few hours and I feel like it would be tiring having someone butcher your language, but she said she was happy to do it. We worked on time expressions, and I feel like I definitely have advanced a decent amount today!

After language lessons, we drove over to the Songjeong Beach area to meet two of her friends and to see the 용궁사 절 (Yonggungsa Temple). It was BEAUTIFUL. See pictures attached. Right on the water...amazing buildings...lots of beautiful nature...wow. We also went into the temple and did a few bows. I felt weird because I think some people knew exactly what they

were doing andI had no idea, and I felt like everyone was looking at me strangely. But whatever. It was really fun and quite interesting.

After the temple, we all went to a Chinese/Korean restaurant - I actually think it was Chinese, but I asked the others and they said it was Chinese food with a Korean influence. In any case, it was delicious. Noodles, somewhat spicy soup, radishes, other vegetables, fried rice and fried pork (the fried is kind of getting to my stomach but I haven't yet tried the fried food here so I figured I should at least try it).


Her two friends were great, too. They are so nice. I can't believe how many really nice people I am meeting here, it doesn't seem real. I have yet to spend a decent amount of time with a rude person.

The only negative thing about the day was that I kind of missed the presence of a certain person...but just thinking of him brings a HUGE smile to my face so it really doesn't have much of a negative relation. Ahh this is so inconvenient...