Tea for Two

I know we are already Monday, but time flies by so fast over here that I barely have time to look back at what just happened to realize that something new is already taking shape in front of me; that's why I need to write about Friday, Saturday and Sunday! On Friday I received my first pay check (we are payed once a month over here) and went to Bupyeong with Pam to get cell phones. Over here it's our way of keeping in touch with one another and finding out where the others are if we ever get separated from one another when we go somewhere.
I wanted a thin one so that it wouldn't be too heavy and I thought that I would be buying a used one, so that it would cost less. Well I ended up buying a new one for 80.00 plus 10.00 for a calling card. In Quebec I would have paid over 300.00 for the same thing!! My phone has an mp3 integrated in it... And I got a bonus surprise! I love the painting by Klimt called "The Kiss". When I was going through the backgrounds I could choose from in the cell phone, The Kiss was one of them! I wasn't too excited about getting a cell phone, but now that I was able to have a slim one and that I have The Kiss as my background I'm really happy to have it!
On Saturday I went to Insadong with Juliet to have tea in a traditional tea house. The tea I chose was Ohmija which means 5 tastes. When you savour the tea, the flavour distinctly changes From bitter to sweet to spicy to salty and then to sour. It is quite an exciting and savoury experience for the palet. The tea is not given, it costs 6.00 but is worth every penny.

After our tea we looked at a few art expositions in the tea houses courtyard. We had the pleasure of seeing beautiful edible flowers made of sugar by a wonderful woman named Yooney Choi. Here you see Juliet standing beside her, and the picture of the cake with sugar flowers is one of her creations.