Saturday with Andy

My flower tea



Today I met Andy and he took me downtown to a store that was filled with musical instruments, a palace, and Insa-dong, a street in the traditional neighborhood filled with vendors (among these serving bugs and something that I would describe as ocean snails).

After seeing the palace museum, we went to a tea shop...very nice. Then we went to dinner at a nearby place. The food was really good and I had ton gass (toon gahssuh), chicken-fried pork basically.

Then we walked back to the metro by the river, a spot he tells me is for couples, and there were tons of couples there and some families sprinkled in. Very pretty.

On the metro ride home, I was tearing apart a napkin so Andy could write in Korean that my shower won't turn off all the way (I've duct-taped it for the time being) and a woman nearby handed me a pouch of kleenex basically and said something, so I asked Andy what she said and she said I should go to church! I laughed for a while about this, but a map to the church was on the back of them and Andy said they sometimes give out candy or other small things. She should have asked me first if I was a Christian so as not to waste them, but I don't think it would have mattered.