My day at the shipyard was really boring, although we saw some blue sky today! Its the first time since we have been here. At the yard we were split up into two teams, A and B. I was on A team with Sam. We saw where the steel comes in and the whole process of treating it and doing basic welds to make plates, then moving up to make small blocks, and putting small blocks together to make big blocks. Super exciting stuff I know.
Since my day was so boring, and team B had some really cool experiences, Mackenzie gracefully volunteered (since Beau was too stubborn) to share her thoughts and experiences from her day even though she guest blogged yesterday.
So first we started in a different conference room with a powerpoint completely in Korean so we weren't really sure what to expect from our day, and then we got a quick translation at the end that we were going to go up onto the Goliath crane and then he said that we were going to jump off the top, but thankful they were kidding about that.
Lunch was in a new building and definitely not the best one we have experienced at the shipyard. It was a cold cucumber soup with huge chunks of ice, cucumbers, and "a weird type of clear gelatin noodle that was vegetable flavored but was actually acorn" as Sam describes it. It also came with something that appeared to be green beans but turned out to be garlic stems with anchovies mixed in...lets just say we all ate a lot of rice for lunch.
We went to get full body harnesses, and new safety equipment and went out to the base of the Goliath crane. We took an elevator to the control room and then climbed to the top (100m above the ground!) where we could see almost the entire shipyard.
In our new safety equipment.
On top of the goliath crane!
After that there was a ship ready to be launched so we went over to see the dry dock flood, which was a very cool experience as well but we are not able to upload any pictures of that unfortunately. We actually watched it for over an hour and then went down into the adjacent dry dock where there was a ship that was almost finished and we walked underneath it. Standing with 30,000 tons right above you is kind of scary!
We all met up and rode our bus to old downtown where we ate Bulgolgi which we all really enjoyed! We then walked around an old ancient Korean temple, played Korean games and watched part of a traditional Korean concert.
-Mackenzie
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Also, I took a lot of pictures, so I figured I should post some of them!
The table covered as usual!
Bulgogi is on the left, with rice on the right. Sauces and other things are on the top left
A game with white and black rocks being played by some old men.
Our dumbed down version.... (which I was not very good at... oh well...)
One of the Korean Students took the time and wrote this out with the stones! So cool!
Our whole group!!
Traditional Korean music at the park.
Pictures with the band.
Look who we found! Kim was back!
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