Back in Korea

I have always thought this would be a fun job, until the whole washing part started.


Mel having fun posing for tourist photos along the waterfront in Shanghai. This particular pose was very popular among Chinese tourists, so Mel decided to give it a try.

Well, we made it back to Korea and we still have not been paid by our school which is not particularly surprising. Tomorrow we are headed to the Labor Board to see if the government can make them pay us. We ate kimchee for lunch and realized that we missed it quite a lot. Might be hard to find good kimchee when we get home. I guess I will have to learn to make it.

The remainder of our China trip was great, mostly we just settled into Shanghai and ate a lot of really good food. We had some great Thai, good Indian, funky cool fusion in a place that was impossible to open the front door, and Chinese vegetarian that was made to look exactly like meat. The veggie place was so good we went back. And yes, we ate at some great hole-in-the-wall Chinese places too.

Aside from shopping, eating and riding around on old bicycles we really enjoyed the Shanghai Museum. Their collection of jade was up to 7,000 years old and they have the oldest discovered bronze at around 4,500 years old. They also had a really cool exhibit on Assyrian culture on loan from the British Museum.