2nd Cultural Experience in Suwon :)

Hello everyone!

Since I am a Cultural Ambassador of Suwon I have been very lucky to meet people from around the world, be introduced to Korean culture, get to know more about the city and have lots of fun with new friends :) As part of the Cultural Ambassadors program we meet once a month and try different activities. This month's theme was Suwon Theatre Festival which takes place for five days, between 1-5 May. As cultural ambassadors, first we met at the Suwon Cultural Foundation and then started our activities. Everything was so much fun! I feel thankful to the foundation for giving us foreigners the chance to experience the Korean culture so closely.. 

Touring Suwon ^^

First we went to Suwon Yongdong Artfora and learned calligraphy and had fun drawing on our personal fans :) 

this is what I wrote ^^

The fan I made :)

Me and my Azerbaijani friend showing off our art skills kk

Later we went to the Center for Intangible Cultural Assets (무형문화재전수회관) and first watched amazing performances from Korean dancers. 

After this, we learned the traditional drum dance (소고춤) which, I think was the most fun part of the day :D 

We even received the drums as a present <3

End of the day, with cultural ambassador friends :)

Our team is great!

Arirang .. Arirang kkk

 Unfortunately I wasn't able to stay longer for the performances since I live so far away.. But I had a great day in all. Looking forward to the next Suwon tour! :)

Itaewon day out :)

Although I have many presentations to prepare I really needed a day off today. Especially 

since the weather is so nice in Seoul these days. So me, my roommate from Kyrgzistan and our Chinese friend decided to go to an Ozbek restaurant near Itaewon. It was the first time I have tried Ozbek food in Seoul and I must say we really enjoyed and ate a lot :) Here are some photos of what we enjoyed ^^

This cake was so delicious

Black tea :)

There is minced meat and onion inside

Samsa is very similar to borek in Turkey

What i miss a lot here, real bread!

This is called shashlik, lamb kebab

                           

After eating we were just strolling around and came across a cute small shop which sells these decorative stuff :)

I feel like eating and having fun like this everyday.. but i have to go back to study tomorrow. aigoo

Welcome Post ^^

Hello everyone!This is actually the first blog I have made in my life and I am quite excited. In fact I have always wanted to write a blog but kept postponing the idea.. However as a Suwon Cultural Ambassador in 2015 I felt that I should make an extra effort to promote Suwon and our cultural activities there. So this is what triggered me to start it finally...

Let me talk a bit about myself.

This is me :D

And this is me as the Choson queen kkkk

I am 28 year old Turkish PhD student studying Korean Studies at Hanyang University. I came to Korea with the KGSP (Korean Government Scholarship Program). Before coming to Korea I had not have the chance to learn Korean although I had always wanted to. KGSP program sent me to Daegu and I had the great chance to study Korean there and meet friends from all around the world and great, fun teachers who thought us Korean from the very scratch. When I was in Daegu I visited many nice places around Korea including Jeju island and even unforgettable Dokdo.. So I consider myself a lucky person :)

I love Korea and I would like to live here in the future as well, even though the working life seems difficult somehow I feel like it would worth it.

Anyway, another thing I should add about myself kkkk like most of my friends know, Jang Keun Suk is the person through whom I got the learn a lot about Korea and my interest in Korea grew bigger thanks to him. I am trying to get actively engaged in his fan club, so I will also post accounts about his activities I attend in Korea. That's it for now. I will also try to write in Turkish or Korean sometimes, in order to be able to reach a bigger population. Especially the Korea Fans in Turkey

And by the way look who I came across in the souvenir shop kkkk any eels out there?

^^ See you in my next post :)