Italy

In 2006 spring, I have been to Itay because the conference related to my job held in Como, Italy. Since I had to go alone, it was a good chance not only to get new information in conference but also to adventure. I traveled many countries but traveling without any company was first.

Both of the flutter and fear went cross my mind until I started. At that time, the company that I was working for supported my traveling expenses so I had to buy cheep air tickets. However, The amazing event happend in Japan when I stoped there to trasfer. A airline worker exchanged my business ticket into first class one. I could enjoy delious meals and kindest service.

It was the evening when I arrived in Como. Beautiful sunset and peaceful atmosphere in a small town made me comfortable. During the conference, I saw charming landscapes of the beautiful Lake Como which I have never seen before and heard chimes of chuches. It was a new experience for me because I have been living in a big and crowded city. After the conference hours, I meandered around the town. North of Como was Switzerland so I could the Montblanc Mountain on the top of the hill in Como. One day I was looking for a restaurant to have for dinner and I found a restaurant which was designed pretty. I ordered bacon spagetti and tried it in the original place of spagetti. Unfortunately, the taste was different from my expectation. Even though I couldn't eat less than a half of the spagetti, the mind that I tried original Italian spagetti made me pleasant.

On the second conference day I attended in a party which was held in a old villa which was constructed more than 100 hundreds ago. Interior design and antic furniture were so attractive and made me misunderstand that a price and a princess might live there. At the night, on the way to the hotel I saw the glow of the fireflies in the forest near the villa. It was so wonderful secene.

After conference finished, I traveled Milano and Venechia. There were a lot of shopping shops in Milano and I lost my way several times in Venechia because almost ways and buildings were very similar and roads were like labyrinth. In spite of a short trip, I was impressed by Italian culture, especially architecture and nature.

Kimchi

Kimchi is the most favorite food of Korean people. In our saying, we cannot live without Kimchi. If someone is Korean, they would be keeping one or several kinds of Kimchi in their refrigerators. Let me introduce Kimchi for a while. Kimchi is a raw and pickled vegetable. Most foods can keep their tasts just within 1 week, while Kimchi is possible to keep over than 3 years. I would like to boast Kimchi as a magic science. In fact, according to experts, the kinds of Kimchi are more than 200. It depends on ingredients. I have seen that my mother made Kimchi many times but honestly, I have two experiences to make Kimchi by myself. One was in Korea and the other was in Iowa here. After arriving here in last summer, I tried to make cabbage Kimchi. Unless my mentor's help, I might not eat it. Even though same ingredients are included, tasts are different.

Now, as you already heard my presentation about Kimchi in communication skill class, in this blog, I will introduce another Kimchi, Gakdugi, which is made of radish . I think making this is easier than cabbage Kimchi(Beachu Kimchi).

ingredients
a fresh radish
green onions
fine red pepper powder
ginger
galic
salt
optional ingredient : pickled baby shrimps

First of all, we can cut radish into cube-shaped and put in a large bowl and sprinkle with salt and then let them stand. Next, we have to prepare for source. Cut green onions and mash galic and ginger. And mix them with red pepper powder and some pickled baby shrimps (option). Finally, mix the cubed radish and the source that we made above. If you don't like spicy taste, you can control the quantity of the red pepper powder. Put them into a containter and eat them 2-3 days later.


This is Gakdugi, one of side dishes in Korea.

I love this.

My father

Whenever I think of my parents, I become to think about their lives. In particular, I learmed lessons of life from my father. My father is very diligent. He had run the shop until I graduated from university. He always opened the door of the shop in the early morning and closed it in the late evening even though there was no a customer. In my childhood, I could not understand my father why he did so. However, as I grew up and became adult, I realized that his diligence was a important lesson such like treasure. My father showed my brother and me diligence his own lives. I have never heard " be diligent"or "study hard" from my father but I could know what was good and followed that. My father trusted me and it made me be proud of myself. When I shoud choose or decide to do somthing, he always trusted me and respected my choice. Even when I decided the university as well as the job, they trusted my thought and choice.

Looking back to my childhood, I have good memories with my father. He loved to go out with me. In summer we used to go swimming in the river and collect snails. In winter my father sometimes went hunting. I can remember that my father and I followed the footprints of rabits and other animals on the snow at that time. When I was 10 years old, I had homework that is to make camera by using boards and cellopane papers. My father helped me cut the thick board and glue the green cellopane papers between boards. we successed to make a nice camera. My camera was selected for the exibition in our school. In my childhood, my father was my best friend as well as a mentor who guided me.