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Today because there was nothing to do a few of us and master Usman all went to the town centre. We left just after 10 and came back after 3 and let me tell you the heat was almost unbareable

If it wasnt for the constant in and out of shops which had AC most of us wouldnt of lasted the 4 hours we were out. The shops sell more or less the same sort of things that England do same style of clothes but there are shops that you wouldnt find in England

There is a shop with the great british flag on it as an English shop, but……all the clothes seemed to have mickey mouse on them - Apparantly korean people really like Mickey mouse

Oh and im sure the children will be glad to know that there is a McDonalds here as well as KFC but the food for me yet again isn’t every nice at all

But the Mcfurrys are much better than the ones we get in England

Most of the shops we see are mostly sports with A LOT of trainers in them. It was so hard not to be tempted into buying all of them!!!

They are also very cheap here but i here that we can get stuff cheaper in seoul when we go shopping there

As we went round i saw the stands of food out here, in England its normally hot dogs, chips etc, but here i see them selling a sort of cockroach looking inset fried in oil i think and there is also chicken foot
and alot of other unidentified food that are there - It seems that the koreans eat anything that moves
even cats and dogs!!

Well today all of us are relaxing as we all know we’re going to start the hardcore training back at the school tomorrow. For those of who are wondering we have yet to do our 7 mile run but when we get back it will be a 7 mile run up and down a mountain 10 times at 6am and i just about keep up with the laps we did in preivous days before the festival - Not sure how hard im going to find the 7 mile run

Anyways this is probably the last day of blogging for quite some time because at the high school we don’t have internet access but i will hopfully try and see if i can get everything i have taken with my dodgey camera and ‘chose to work when i want to’ video camcorder

If i manage to figure out how to edit and upload it on the site. So far i have abit of the fights but not mine (my camera battery decided to cut out after a night of charging). The opening cermony on a mountain, a few preformances from the areobic tae kwon do teams and today when we spent it in town - Hopefully fingers cross i can get them all on this site

Bye for now

Rabekah

I just realised that all the post i havent said anything about the actual country, well here in korea it its very hot, the humidity makes wearing english clothes feel very uncomfortable but at times its nice.

The food……some people enjoy but as i don’t eat meat i find myself eating plain rice and bread. Kimchi seems to be the favourite food of the citizens of the country and i see it everywhere.

The majority of korean people wear glasses and are short for whatever reason but they are all nice people.This nation has a great deal of manners and bow towards you when you come into an acquainance with them or when stepping through a door and people are present, more people than i thought can speak English - All i can say is that their english is better than my Korean

The thing i hate the most is the mosquitos - they right now have caused my left foot to swell like a water balloon and im worried that when we go back to the high school i can not participate in the run and the training as i cant even put on a trainer

The dorms in the university are very nice, and we have free phone and internet access, also hot showers, but at the high school none of that is present and the showers are ice cold!!! - Not looking forward to that when i get back

Korea is very proud of Taekwondo and there is alot of spirt from both the people who do it and the citizens of the country, most adults are at least 1st dan as they have to get their black belt in 2 years for i think military school

Im kind of having a good time

Its hard when

1. You dont really eat any of the food

2. Cant really speak much Korean

3. The only girl in the team

but the people from both here and other countries are all united and it is a sad thing that it is all over now - but there is always next year

Rabekah

hello sorry i dont have any thing sooner had trouble with my camera an video recorder

both mo an rushid should be posting the pictures and the videos they took if not…..

well hope u enjoy

i will try an edit the footage the other LTA members got of all the fights we all did as a team and see if i can upload it

the festival is fineshed now and we all had a great time

meeting people from alot of different countries and cultures is an experiance i will tresure forever

as for the fighting as well

and if i get the chance, i will like to come back bigger and better than now and get alot more than bronze

well 1st off I’m sorry for not posting

its not only hard finding what to say but it is hard to write it in my day 2 day journal and then on the blog witch up till now i still don’t know how to use And i have also written a lot in my journal and because we are out all day, the wait for the computer is extremely long especially when these lil children get on it (we call them the raiders)

well i have read your comments and it seems you all want to know how the festival fight went well the 6 day event is still going on till now but i had my fight on Thursday

i feel that i didn’t do as good as other people told me i lost 9-1 to a girl named Hanna rose from Australia, she was a black belt and really really good

It was hard to kick her in the face as she was a lot taller than me

The fights consist of 3 rounds of a 1 min 1/2 but i only got to round 2 as the rules state when you are 7 points ahead you win the game for that fight i got bronze and Hanna rose second opponent didn’t turn up :O

I was so close to gold yet so far apart

Well that wasn’t my best performance but i tried my best

Maybe next time i will come home with gold

Rushed also came home with bronze wining an losing 1 fight
moalla lost his fight

I will try and keep you posted
but you will defiantly hear everything when i get back

Rabekah

hello everyone

on behalf of me sorry that we havent posted anything yet but we are at the festival and we have internet access so u should here from us soon

if i manage to work out how to post the thing haha just joking

anyway u ll b glad to here that were not gettin our butts kicked

ps. did you watch Jmup yet..

tell me all about it

Rabekah

Dear All,

I spoke to Mo, Rabekah and Rushid today at 3pm which is 11pm their time. They said that they are all fine but tired. They are relaxing after a hard days training.

They have not left any postings yet as they are not near to computers but are hoping to give you all an update on everything in the next couple of days when they travel to take part in the 10th World Taekwondo Festival. They believe that they will be fighting on Wednesday or Thursday.

Mo said that that the best thing about Korea is the 5am run around the shool which is 7 miles each morning. He said that the hardest time is keeping up with the different styles as they are so intesive with little time take any breaks.

Rabekah said that the best thing was the intesity of the training and although it was very hard it was worth it. She said that she was very sore and found the hardest thing was the running.

Rushid said that the best thing was fighting with the Korean students and the hardest thing was keeping up with the target training. 

They were all in high spirits but sounded tired. They said that they will try and get onto a computer in the next day or so as there should be facilities near to where they are going in the festival.

Keep coming back to see if there are any new postings.

Regards