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Cultural Exchange Program - Party begins

Date - 23/09/2017

Today, I felt so good when I entered that room. We were greeted by the Youth Goodwill Guide Staff from Hi Seoul Youth Hostel. They were so cheerful and friendly you can feel tje positive vibes in the place as soon as you enter the place.

Hi Seoul Youth Hostel is an organisation that provides foreign students in Korea with free tour guides and organise programs for them to let them know more about the Korean Culture and traditions.

Youth Goodwill Guide is a group of University and high school students who volunteer for helping the foreign students and organise such cultural programs. I think it is so inspiring when kids of our age are volunteering and giving their weekends to foreiggn students like us.

We were divided into four teams and began with the general introduction with our team. We were four girls in my team. Two of them were from Indonesia Amanda and Mita and Julie who is a native Korean. Julie is a young volunteer in Youth Goodwill Guide.

The name of our team was Nabi. Nabi in Korean means butterfly. We also chose this name because it captured the spirit of our team right. Four beautiful, cheerful and excited girls. The cheer for our team was *Nabi Nabi Fighting*.

We then played a few Korean traditional games. The first couple of games were like Indian Chungi and Gitte respectively.

All the four Indian girls were in the four different teams. So we came forward for the second game and Avinash bhaiya rocked in the first game.

It was fun to play these games. Team - Indorean rockstars won it and Team - Nabi was in the second place. We also got some prizes in the end. I got an Umberalla and there are butterflies made on that too. 😊😊 (I will tell you about the butterfly connection sometime soon.)

In the next part of the program, we cooked some Korean food. They gave us the ingredients and recipes for five traditional Korean dishes. The menu was such that either the dishes were Vegetarian or even if they weren't we could easily cook that without eggs or meat.

So I got to taste five Korean dishes and all of them were new for me. All the five dishes were new for me and there were two dishes that are typically non-vegetarian dishes but we cooked Vegetarian versions of the same. But all the five dishes were really delicious. It was definitely the best Korean meals I have had so far.

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