During the semester I’ve been taking part to a culture experience program. This program lasted for 5 weeks and consisted of traditional Korean activities: mask dance, calligraphy and martial arts. The mask dance reminded me more of an African than Asian dance, because it consisted of big movements and jumping wearing scary masks at the same time. 
After the dance practices we changed into a more peaceful activity: calligraphy. It was writing, arts and meditation at the same time, and I totally lacked patience for it. It was fun, but I was never satisfied with the results – the one thing I hate is bad handwriting. We were doing simple Korean alphabets, but it was actually much harder than I taught. The last part of the program was traditional Korean martial arts. It was nothing like the usual things you see, for example Taekwondo or Karate, but much smoother. 
The idea was to kick the other person in the head, but the kicks were soft and hurting the “enemy” was not the point. This martial arts really looked more like an art than fighting and it even had some elements from dance. From the whole program this was my favourite part and I was really happy to let my school stress out by kicking my classmates… =)
The idea was to kick the other person in the head, but the kicks were soft and hurting the “enemy” was not the point. This martial arts really looked more like an art than fighting and it even had some elements from dance. From the whole program this was my favourite part and I was really happy to let my school stress out by kicking my classmates… =)
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