Today was our "free time day," with no formal activities scheduled for the team or their members. The GSE plan calls for one off day each week of the trip, though past GSE Team Leaders have told me this seldom happens. We had a four-hour break in Yesan and a couple of one-hour breaks along the way, but those hardly provided soul refreshment. Team members have been exhausted for a week, and have been looking forward to this.
Seven of the eight team members chose to go to Seoul for a day of shopping and looking around. Tyel from our team stayed home to relax and reflect. Walted Lundstrom (D6690 Team leader) and I chose to stay in Cheonan and look around. We had lunch and dinner with our host dad (we've been staying with the same family here) and went to jil-je-bong (sad effort at phonetic spelling!) in the afternoon. Jil-je-bong is a coed spa, with a big brick sauna, massage, abour four pieces of exercise equipment and an ice room (kept at 30 degrees) in a large (4,000 sf?) coed room. There were also hot tubs, a barber shop, Korean massage (the scraping we received last week) and some more in the locker/shower areas. We had a fine time sauna-ing and chatting with some women there who knew our host dad. It was a fun day, capped off by nouri-bang (karaoke in a reserved room) with a group of Rotarians from our host dad's club.
All of our team members greatly appreciated the time to themselves.
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