DAY 7 (July 17 2010): Creation? Clayation! Making Models with Water Clay

There hasn’t been a day when we didn’t have any outside activities since we got to Jeju, but today we stayed at our dormitory all day to create models with water clay.

Before making models, we divided into groups of six people with different nationalities (except for Koreans since we had the most number of them). I think this gave a very whirling dynamics because usually a lot of the students work with their nationals, speaking in their mother tongues. But here we had to speak in a common language: English. It was quite interesting to see who takes the lead, who jumps in to get their hands dirty, and who focuses on expanding concepts and drawings before making any model.







Lunch was pizza and fried chicken (which I missed), but what was fun was afterwards, we went to the beach right outside of our dorm! To get there was like the movie Ramboo, we had to walk through trees and go down the hill with no apparent steps or aid. Also the ocean had a bunch of rough rocks, waiting to mark scars on our skins. A lot of people got cuts and bruises after swimming in this volcanic rocks beach.

The rough surface of Jeju volcanic rocks are not friendly to human skins.

It's just impossible.

After the unplanned swimming in the spikes of volcanic rocks, we went back creating and polishing the models with clay. Before dinner, each group made a presentation of our “clayation.” I was very impressed with how real the models looked, and how well-thought-out each of them was. Kyle and Jim are right thinking that we needed all the “cultivation” in our heads, as the trips to the Stone Museum or the Jeju April 3 Peace Park, in order to come up with such sophisticated models.

Team Mike

Team Galel

Team Prince

Team Dima

We took a nice walk to the restaurant we would eat our dinner at. Usually we just drive straight back and forth to our dormitory, so it was nice to take the time and walk around the neighborhood we stayed in.

On the way to the restaurant

The dinner was Jeju original Heuk Tway Ji (black pork). It was so delicious! It actually had a lot of fat, which made the meat very soft and juicy. I had a ton of Soju, so by the time I left this place I was drunk out of my freaking eye balls.

On the way back from dinner, in front of our dormitory's sign (ghosts!?)

Tomo