So Kate, Kim and I started taking traditional Korean drumming lessons on Monday nights. They’re great. We have bradley’s co-teacher Mr. Bahk translating for us and then we have Mr. Bahk’s master drummer teaching us. It’s really hard. You have two different sticks. One is flat and you use this to make a sharp muted sound on the right hand side of the drum. Then you have a round ended stick that you make a loud sound on your right. You also bring this stick across and use it on the right. The hard thing is that the right side you hit and keep it there to create the muted sound and with the left hand you spring it to create a louder brighter sound. My brain gets mixed up trying to do both. But it’s a lot of fun.

So yesterday Mr. Bahk invited us and Sarah to go see a traditional drumming performance at the cultural center. We went and it was amazing. They are really good. Well at the last number all of a sudden Mr Bahk (who was the mc) called us all by name to come on stage. We all looked at each other and thought @#*$*! Is he going to make us play. We’ve had two lesson. We all suck. Well it wasn’t that bad. We only had to go on stage and dance with the other performers (they dance and play at the same time). So we all piled up on stage and danced our hearts out.

Today I get to judge all the English speech contests from the different school in Yeongwol and then show the English play that I’ve been directing. I hope it goes well. Wish me luck…oh wait no don’t I need to break a leg.