September

For part of Chuseok (Korean thanksgiving) we speant a couple of really laid back days in Ganghwado

This weekend friends and I went to Jarasom Jazz festival. It was a lot of fun. The traffic was bad getting there - a four hour trip that usually takes around 1 hour. At the festival venue there wasn't food stands like at most Korean festivals so we watched one act before eating lunch/dinner at 10pm. We were all really hungry!

The crowd at one venue. Koreans don't seem to dance wildly ^^

Some of the 'jazz' was far outside my impression of jazz but there was definitly some talent there and it was good to hear some really interesting sounds.

An African jazz group. The piano player was great and even played with his toes!

We met Song ha and Hyo jae (front, left) by accident and ate with them. Yeon su, Sueng mi, myself and Ksan ate then went and watched two more acts before going to sleep around 3am.

Yeon su and Seung mi with a famous rock singer, Kang Sang ae.

View from our accomadation.

On a good impulse we went and bought a couple of turtles and named them 'Slow' and 'Coach' . Slow has a shorter tail so we know which is which. They are very cute.