Can
you imagine the first time you traveled to another country with difference of
language, culture, people, food and what you only have are a few words of
English that you still need to learn? This starts when my parents planned a
vacation to South Korea with me, my brother and sister. A month before
departure, my parents made us a visa and passport because of international
regulations so we could visit other country. On
January 6, 2017 we went to Soekarno Hatta Airport by taxi on Friday morning
when it was still dark. After about 6 hours of flight we were greeted by our
guide who will always take us during our trip in in South Korea. On the first
day of our trip we visited Petite France in Gyeonggi
Province, is a French-style theme park that was constructed, unfortunately the
snow doesn't cover this area, not long here we just take a few photos and go
visit other location.
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| Me when on Petite France, South Korea |
Still on the same day we visited Nami Island, it took quite a long time to come here and needed a boat to visit the location, but before that we had lunch with smoked beef and did you know why they always use chopsticks made of iron rather than wood chopsticks? And again, at Nami Island we hadn't had time to see snow. Took long enough to tour the island. Because it was getting dark, we returned to the car and were escorted by the guide to The Class 300 hotel and we were watching Korean films offered by the guide.
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| Ice or Snow? |
On the second day we visited Seoraksan National Park, there
was a lot of snow scattered there. We ride the gondola with other people to go
up the hill. Finally, we could see the amazing view with snow-covered hills.
And yes, snow, I can feel and hold it with my own hands.
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| Together with my family on top of the hill |
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| Skiing |
And the next trip we
will try skiing at Phoenix Pyeongchang and of course we need to rent some
equipment to play with it. I taught myself how to ski as I know in the video on
YouTube. It so heavy and hard for me at the first time. We having a good time
in there. In the evening we
visited Everland Korea Theme Park, just like Dufan but this playground was so huge
and unfortunately many games were closed and the night on there was very cold
because of the winter. I don’t remember what kind of games that I have played
on there. Back to hotel!
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| Everland |
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| Street vendors |
On the third morning we visited the Kimchi manufacturing
plant and the ginseng history site. unfortunately, in these places we are not
allowed to use the camera. But fortunately, we were taught how to make Kimchi
and there we also bought Korean special seaweed food. During the day we went to
a place where many street vendors and there we also collected Korean Starbucks
Cup. In the afternoon we visited Gyeongbok Palace, in this place we also saw the
history of Korea. I was very so impressed because more than century ago this
country was arguably poorer than Indonesia but until now, they could make their
country as developed country. Amazing! In the evening we visited downtown
Seoul, this city was amazing, we also visited a shopping center whose servants
were from Indonesia.
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| Gyeongbok Palace |
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| Hanbok |
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| N Seoul Tower |
1. Simple Present : take, use, need, learn, play, visit
2. Present Continuous : getting,
watching, skiing, having, manufacturing, going, guiding
3. Past Tense : Regular Verb=traveled,
planned, greeted, visited, constructed, needed, smoked, returned, escorted,
scattered, snow-covered, closed, played, allowed, collected, impressed,
crowded, arrived; Irregular Verb=could, went, taught, bought, driven
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