Kon Hua Do- Jeondeungsa!

On one of the pictures here I'm drinking water at an outdoor water fountain and the little four 'Kung Fu' guys on the last picture were placed in front of a monument dedicated to a Korean man who kept the French invaders from coming in!

Kon Hua Do- Jeondeungsa!

Here we can see a tree that is 600 years old...birds carved out of trees and a pond filled with the leaves that symbolize buddhism!

Kon Hua Do- Jeondeungsa!

In these set of pictures, you can see the prayer rocks that Koreans put up when they have prayer requests for the Buddha(each rock represents a different prayer request....on the picture where I'm going around in circles is another prayer method where if you want to bear a boy when you get pregnant, you go there and spin it around, it was used long time ago by the believers.

Korean Memorial Day

For the Korean Memorial day, we took a field trip to the National Korean Cemetary and the kids had to place flowers on the tombs of the many soldiers lost to the Korean War...it was very nice to look at the kids pay their respects to these soldiers.

Korean National Museum!

The National Korean Museum was built not too long ago, so it is extremely big and new...I went with a few friends and took some pic of some cool things...things such as dragon heads, swords and paintings of long ago, also, in the pictures where we are, behind us you can see the tallest 'pagoda' there is in Korea hope you all enjoy it:)

Korean Natl. Museum

Lisha's and Terry's Last Night!

This was Lisha's and Terry's last night with us..they were our supervisors at work and we went out to eat some 'Duck Galbi' to say goodbye..they are very nice people, we will miss them:(...the last picture shows two glass bottles of pepsi in Korean and English, thought it would be cool for my pepsi friends:)

Andong masks!

Here we can see another picture of Andong and some of the masks that they show when they have the 'Mask Festival'...

Choir Dinner!

This is my choir team from church...we sometimes go out together and have meals after practice..they are very nice people and all of them speak English, some more than others, but we can all communicate very well...in the first picture is the lead singer for Soprano with her daughter who's in Alto like me:)

Andong...the countryside

Andong is a beautiful place, I went to visit for the weekend with some Korean friends. Andong is well known for the "Mask Festival"...there are rivers, farms and mountains...also, it is the only place where 'Confusionism' is still being practiced...Confusionism is not so much a religion, but rather a philosophy, where the people are very respectful of their elders, they are very conservative, they are kind and have very good manners along with being very protective of their bodies, both physically and spiritually inside and out and they still practice the traditional Korean customs....there were schools long ago where this philosophy was taught by a very famous teacher who introduced this philosophy to the people...Well, in this trip we picked berries in the mountains, visited traditional Korean homes and experienced sleeping in a village in a Korean tradiotional home. We had a great time:).......the following few pictures are from this trip!

Andong contd,,,,