Temple Visit

SO another long day. Before I started I wanna get out a few things that I forgot to mention earlier. First there are odd and even elevators, like if you wanna go to the 6th floor you must take the elevator on the right side. They skip every other floor. The buttons for all the floors are there so if you get in the even elevator and push 7 it will light up but it won't go there LOL. Not everywhere but some buildings are like that. And squat toilets are not a myth! They exist. Took a pic of one today, really interesting. Didn't use it though. Last, I had coffee milk this morning. It's like strawberry milk but coffee. IT"S AMAZING!!!

Ok so temple visit...woke up at 7 to eat breakfast, met up at 9 to load on the buses and drive an hour to get to a national park. Walked down this trail for like 20 min til we reached a buddist temple. It was decorated so intricately. Everything painted and carved and had real gold statues. The monks showed us around, helped us make prayer beads (kinda like rosaries) and old fashion copying. We all met back for lunch. Bibimbop (rice and veggies) they spooned it out and you took it and went to sit and eat. Then we were told it's rude not to finished all your food because ppl worked hard to grow the food. I looked at the food again...it was enough for 2 days. I tried eating fast, then slow then almost cried cuz i knew I couldn't eat it all. Everyone else finished at my table. It brought back childhood memories of sitting at the table forever tryin to finish my food. I'm the slowest eater ever and my stomach is small! One of the leaders came over and asked if I was ok, I said no, he said it's ok you don't have to finish. I still felt bad but snuck my food in the trash, washed my dishes and ran out. Then we walked..no hiked up this mountain to see a lil waterfall. Not impressive, although still pretty, it was called the dragons mouth and was sacred to them. A couple ppl were up there drinkin and swimmin in the water. The monk acted like it was normal and one of the ladies even offered boot leg liquor to us. Had to walk all the way back down. Sweated my butt off (it was hot and hard) It was all interesting and so pretty. Walked back to the bus drove back, ate, chilled with a girl who talked a lot and finally back in my room with AC!