The next performance we saw were female acrobats on a teeter-totter, whereby they would catapult each other into the air and do flips and tricks with streamers and hoola-hoops and such. The final performance were acrobats on horses, who continually yelled "HEY, HEY" as if were watching something else and they needed to reclaim our attention.
After all of the performances we got our names written in Korean by a very cute elderly couple. As we were walking away from the stand, the woman rang out with the Korean character for "Luck" and handed it to Collin. I guess she felt that Collin, a Korean, would need it, hanging out with all of us whiteys. Oh and Rupali. Haha.
The rest of the day at the village was spent wandering around and looking at the architecture, the houses of the peasants and of the noblemen. and we spent a fair amount of time at the various shops, where I bought a pair of reflexology slippers, which I believe will feel amazing after standing all day at school.
On the way home, as we sat waiting for the bus, three Koreans squeezed onto the bus bench next to Chris' friend Todd, who is visiting from the US for Chuseok. Out of nowhere one of the ladies started pounding Todd on the back, quite inexplicably, until Collin, who speaks Korean, was able to translate and inform us that she was giving him a "Motherly pat". She then proceeded to try to scratch off his tattoo with her fingernail as her husband stroked his leg and proclaimed at how nice and manly his hairy legs looked. Oh Koreans, they will never fail to keep us amused :)
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