Thursday evening Daegu Health College hosted its second Foreigners Party to allow its students to interact with English speaking foreigners. Friday was a holiday weekend for Buddha's birthday so Thursday night probably wasnt the best choice of timing.

I was supposed to be meeting a Korean friend at the event so agreed to go along even though I could have used Thursday night to travel and start early on my holiday weekend plans. When I got the campus which is a 15 min bike ride for me and called my friend he said he now couldnt attend.

Since I was already here I went inside to see what the event was like. There were many of the same organizers from last time. After introduction speeches we were taken to the side for a tea drinking demonstration.

I've been to so many of these in hanok villages I didnt think seeing another one would be that interesting. However, this time it was an interactive workshop where we get to do the tea mixing.

Step one was to take the boiling water in the kettle and pour enough for three cups into a large bowl with a spout. Then pour this water into a second empty kettle.

Now you pour the boiling water in the second kettle into three small cups. Swirl the water around to clean the cup then throw it out into a larger bowl for collecting waste.

After this add a tablespoon and a half of tea flavourings to the now second empty kettle. Start the process from the beginning again. Pour from the first kettle enough hot water for three cups into the large bowl with spout, then pour into the second kettle that now has the tea flavourings.

Place the lid and allow to sit for a minute. Then pour the ready tea into the three small cups. This kettle has two handles. One the curved one at the back to hold the kettle. The second is like a rod protruding from the side to balance the kettle as you pour into the small cups.

You place one cup of tea to either side for guests and the third one beside you for yourself. We then invited volunteers to sample the tea.

The final step involved cleaning the teacups. Repeat the first steps of pouring boiling water from the first kettle, into the bowl with spout. However now you pour directly into each of the three used teacups. Swirl them around and throw into the waste bowl. Wipe the brim of the cup with a cloth.

She also showed the proper way of sitting and standing up. First you fold your legs forward and sit on your knees. Then you cross your legs behind and lower yourself to sit cross legged. To stand up reverse by first uncrossing your legs then standing from the kneeling position.

After this we got to got to play some traditional games. The first involved many pieces of paper folded into thick squares. I've seen my students playing this

First each player throws their square onto the ground. Then each player takes turns and picks up their square and throws it really *******to another one to flip it over. I tried to throw at an angle to chip one up from the corner but the key is to throw it flat with so much impact that it causes a bounce.

If you bounce it you keep that square and the winner is however has collected the most. Finally we got to make some bibimbap for dinner. There was also a table with many types of rice cake desserts.

Due to the holiday weekend only one other foreigner showed up. However, I got to speak with a lot of the students and made many new friends. I want to have more local friends that I can practice my Korean with and hang out with so hopefully we can make future plans.

To read about the first foreigner party read below
http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-blog-e ntries/londone7/1/1351358703/tpod.html