I journeyed back to Itaewon again today to catch the last day of the festival. The crowd of people was like a million times bigger than when I came on Friday!! Even more of the streets were closed down and there were packed people everywhere on the sidewalks and spilling into the streets. There was a bigger parade today, with what looked like cultural dancers and exhibitions from different countries. It was really interesting to watch!
For lunch I went to a place called Rotolo's. They specialized in these cool things that were like half pizza slice and half calzone. I got the combo rotolo which had like ham, olives, lettuce, pepperoni, cheese, etc. in it and it was BOMB. All crispy and thin on the outside and yummy on the inside :)
After lunch I went back out to the main street in time for another parade, of historical and cultural costumes of Korea it looked like. I also made a new friend Hyojoon, who was the random person next to me that I asked to take a picture (of me and the cool costume guy!!). It turns out he speaks English and he doesn't even study it!! I was impressed. He is one year older than me and lives in Itaewon, so he says he just picked it up from listening around town. We had fun following the parade down the street until there were too many people and we couldn't see it anymore :( Darn foreigners...heh.
On a side note...they're already on Mario Kart SEVEN here in Korea?!? What? When did this happen? Or are we just lagging hardcore in America??
Festival = cheh-chuhn 제전
Friend = cheen-goo 친구
Foreigner = ooee-gook-in 외국인 (for that first sound, it's like putting 'oh' and 'ee" together...almost like a 'w' sound)
Friend = cheen-goo 친구
Foreigner = ooee-gook-in 외국인 (for that first sound, it's like putting 'oh' and 'ee" together...almost like a 'w' sound)