Friday

Friday:

I got up at 53 before everyone. Because gumdo and meditation should begin my dad, I did gumdo and meditation alone. It felt good be up early

We ate breakfast quickly.  I chopped cabbage, cucumber, peppers, and zucchini into strips. I put out pickled onion, and cucumber in sliced in a hydrating gochu sauce, both as banchan. I fried three sunny side up eggs. I made bimbimpap sauce. I put out the eggs and the three us, JH, the Malays Wwoofer and I ate. Heejern came later. I mentioned how my sauce need more garlic. Heejern said, “Yes it is crucial.”

The Malaysian Wwoofer had came to farm pretty unhappy to find out we only ate local foods. Now after she used an extra day off to go to some beaches she was really happy. She made some friends. I realized how positive the energy has been in this place.

Heejern said, “Today there is a television crew coming to us at 9:30 to take pictures and interview us.”

JH, “Wow.”

“How do you feel about this?”

“I feel good, but a little concerned that we didn’t have enough time to prepare and….”

“And there aren’t many plants.”

I could have enthusiastically, “Well we’ll get prepared,” but I didn’t. I didn’t know exactly what more to prepare.

“They have come two times before and they were a little disappointed, because there wasn’t many plants.”

We cleaned the apartment. Every cleaned something. Malaysia Wwoofer, whose Christian name is Joyce,cleaned windows. Ju Hee cleaned the table. The living room is the Wwoofer’s bedroom so we moved our stuff into Ju Hee;s bedroom. Projects and odds and ends were organized. Heejern had me move a huge pot with him and place it on stone or logs to hold it up to put a fire beneath it.

Whenever, Heejern called, me, “Greg, help me.”

He put Soibogi into a pot and starting turning it around.

“We are preparing to dry tea in the traditional manner.”

“This is interesting because I know about sun drying and house drying, but this is the first time I’ve since this for tea.”

“Sun drying takes 1 week. At the time fermentation has begun. The traditional people did this to to keep the materials…”

“Intaked.”

“Yes.”

To be continued.....