I had a once in a lifetime opportunity this past weekend. We spent a weekend in a small village in Korea and became Korean farmers for 2 days. We helped the local village farmers with their everyday lives and gave them a rest. We all did different types of farming, but mostly harvesting vegetables. Me and my group prunded tomatoe plants for about 7 hours and the next day I pruned cucumber plants. It was rather tiring, but we were exremely taken care of; offered food and drinks about every hour with random long break periods. Saturday night we all hung out and just ate amazing Korean food with the traditional homemade drink: machali. It is absolutly delicious. Its a rice milk alcohol drink, not sure how it is made, but its quite good! But one sad thing about farmin in this town was the dog farm that we stumbled across. There were tons of cages with dogs in them, just eatin waiting to get slaughtered. These dogs are only 7 months old, but are huge and will be slaughtered around 1 year old. IT is quite different than anything I have ever seen, but its the culture. But all in all, the farming experience was very good and I am so glad I got to experience it!
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