  This morning I awoke at the freakily early time (for me) of 7am to catch an early train to Jecheon. Oddly, the taxi ride from my apartment to the train station cost 5,500 won, almost as much as the ticket from Cheongju to Jecheon, which cost 5,600 won. Hmmm. Here is a photo of Angela and me and our breakfast. In case you're wondering what that is, it's called kimchi bokkumbap.
There's rice and fried kimchi, topped off with a fried egg in a super hot pot, and you mix it all up together and eat it with a spoon. Mmmm, and look, they even fried our eggs in the shape of a star and heart! We spent the day wandering around and shopping in the small downtown area in Jecheon.
I have decided that rainy days are the perfect day to shop - the stores are practically empty and the weather is cool. Of course, it is kind of annoying, having to deal with your umbrella - everytime you go into a store, you have to close it up and leave it at the entrance, so I usually get a fair bit of water on me. Maybe that's why there aren't so many shoppers. This is a shot of Angela modeling one of the freaky sunvisors that some Koreans wear. Why, why, why? Here is another friend of mine that is teaching in Jecheon. By the way, Donna is 24, Canadian, is tons of fun to hang out with, has a great sense of humor and likes beer! If there are any nice single men in the vicinity of Jecheon who would like to get to know her better, please email me your contact info, vital statistics, and a brief introduction and I'll forward them onto her.
This was what we had for lunch, it's called deokkalbi. Deok means rice cake, and kalbi means ribs. It's this fabulous tasty mess of chicken (breasts usually), rice cake, cabbage and few other green things fried in a spicy sauce. They bring it to your table raw, and you cook it there on a burner. Towards the end, you can also add noodles or rice and fry that up in some extra sauce as well.
I would have taken pictures of the side dishes and the cooked product, but I was too busy eating to play with my camera. Last, here are a few shots from the train window shortly after I left Jecheon. It was a horribly overcast rainy day, but at least it was nice and cool. By the way, belated birthday wishes to my country of non-residence, and it's neighbor to the south. Hope everyone had a good time celebrating. 
