Lunar's New Year and many other things

 Here are some crosses that are 

around my apartment.

 The ice on the sidewalks is a problem in Seoul.  Salt is not always used so you have better watch your step. 

Here is a snowman that was near my apartment.

Below are a few pictures of snow that happened in January. 

 Well I haven't written a blog in a little while so I think I will share many of the pictures I have taken in the last month or so.  I will start out with showing some of the pictures from Lunar New Year's celebrations at school.  Then I will show some of the other pictures I have taken.   There has been some snow here in Seoul, but very little.  I'd say all winter we have had less than 2 inches of snow.   The winter has been a little  cold, but nothing too bad. If you are used to winters in Pennsylvania then the winters here are not bad.  I was looking online at how much snow Seoul gets and it's not a lot.  January has less than an inch of precipitation on average, while July has 15 inches of rain on average.  So I can expect a wet, soggy and humid summer.   

 Here we are all taking a picture at the Lunar New Year Wishing Tree.

Here is a Lunar New Year Game.

We put paint on the pictures and 

blew it with straws.

Make a Wish and put it on the wishing tree.  Here in Korea it's called Lunar New Year, not Chinese New Year.  

Back in January I went to the National Museum of Korea.  Here are some statues from the Buddhist exhibit. 

They had many exhibits that were for the seeing impaired.  The seeing impaired could feel replicas of the main exhibits on display in each room while listening to headphones describing the object. 

I went to the National Palace Museum of Korea and here are some pictures of a few of the things I saw there.  The museum is free and I went there on Saturday February 8th. 

Here are some fancy liquor jars.

Water starts in the container all the way to the left and then drips into the other containers. Eventually it makes a ball roll that makes a mechanism hit a bell, drum or gong.  The bell rings every hour.  The gong every 90 minutes and the gong every 18 minutes.  This is a replica of a clock on the palace grounds in the 15th century.

Below is a video of the bell ringing.

Here were all pictures and artifacts of Hungarian aristocracy.