DAY 23 (August 3 2010): Great & Visible Progress

Today was a scorching hot day. It was also windless, which made the site unbearably hot. But we made a lot of progress on the pearl portion of the park. We laid down more stone pieces on the floor and the wall, worked on tiles near the pearl, and flattened the ground near the spiral and built stone walls so we can pour concrete tomorrow.

Working on the Pearl


Walls (in progress)


Building the stone wall and making the ground ready for concrete


Y-not picking up the tiles


Valery working on the steps


Jim talking to the tilers


Xuejiao drying the seashells to be put around the pearl


Drying the shells


Mikey In Da ZoNe


Concrete mixing crew exhausted (probably the hardest work at site)


Catherine tiling


Yuri and Sun. 'K'ute


KK yelling "mul mul mul"


Mad Artist

Lunch was grilled fish, bulgogi, kimchi, cucumber kimchi, etc (why does this sound familiar?).



More work on the pearl…

Piglet working on the tiles


3 Russian and 1 American women working on the tiles


Sae Bom cleaning the stone


JH and Oh


The snail machine revealed! (the ground flattener!)


The pearl in progress


"(singing) I have energy..."


"Got Handcream?"


Grandmother Stone (carved)

The dinner was at an outside restaurant! It was very romantic. In addition, it had a karaoke stage! My roommate KK sang a Korean song (he was great, too!), followed by Russian Sasha and Mexican Galel.

Korean BBQ dinner at an outdoor restaurant. It was hot, delicious, and romantic.


Kanpai!


KK singing


Galel singing while Kyle dances with Y-not

Tomo