DAY 18 (July 29 2010): Long and Hard Day

Such a different weather today offered us compared to the last two days. It was sunny, hot, and worse, not windy. It felt like I was in a sauna and tanning booth at the same time.

A few interesting events occurred in the morning; one the water truck got stuck in the mud, and two two people got stuck in the bus when they were sleeping while the rest of us got out of the bus. The driver locked the door, not knowing there were people left in the bus, and they had to get out from a tiny window (the driver was missing).

The water truck getting stuck


Rescuing Piglet

We established more vertical stones, putting stones and cement behind them. Also the Stone Masons started working on the spiral, and it looks really progressive from above.

Carrying out the flatstones





Hello Life.


Jin is always busy!


Spiral from above





Mixing cement

Lunch was the same as yesterday’s, except we had chicken inside. This dish is very close to Japanese sukiyaki, other than the fact that the Korean version has red pepper inside.







Two journalists from the Jeju Weekly came to write an article about the Pacific Rim Park.




Pablo and Catherine on the roof of Women Divers' restaurant (it's where we eat lunch everyday)

In the afternoon, a concrete mixer came and we poured more concrete into both the spiral and the pearl. For the spiral, a shovel car did the work for us; it picked up the concrete from the truck, then poured onto the spiral. For the pearl, we poured concrete directly on the side. But for the interior part behind the vertical pieces, we used wheel barrows to carry it.

Pouring concrete by shovel car


Pouring concrete on the side wall of the Pearl


Got enough concrete?


Pouring concrete behind the vertical pieces


Sometimes you put too much concrete and the wheel barrow falls











The professional stone cutter/carver


Our work space


Stone snow from all the cutting

Dinner was our second time “seafood soup with red pepper” and my favorite Don Bae. Everyone must have been very hungry, we finished eating in less than thirty minutes, almost silently.




This is my favorite food here (Don Bae)


After dinner, Kyle made a spontaneous plan to walk across a bridge. This bridge was very cool, it had lights on the ground and the arc, illuminating beautifully in the dark Jeju night. True for this bridge and local park we visited before, there are a lot of families in these amusement places even if it’s 9 or 10PM. I don’t see this in America or Japan, people usually stay home or don’t go to the park at that late night (remember this was Thursday, not Friday).




A changing color bridge. Really pretty at night. Great dating spot

Tomo