Woori Bank @Ansan & Its Vicinity

I finished checking out my students who'd just finished taking their final exam. Afterwards I was going along with them to celebrate the day. But, first..we dropped by at Woori Bank to pray the afternoon prayer. Since the bank provided a musholla or praying room....there are more and more customers coming.

Apart from that, we could also check the exchange rates on a daily basis...real time.

Yup...this is what the musholla looks like.

Upon entering the musholla, we could see the view of the street and kopiah!!!

Simple praying mats...laid out. But it's nicely rendered.

If we looked out of the window, we'd be able to see the multicultural street below since the praying room is on the 3rd floor if the building.

This is to show how well connected the musholla and the bank area are.

In front of the bank there's a medium-sized open space with an open stage. At that time...there's this Aid for Nepal Concert. 

A bit further off....a vividly visual splendor of multicultural street was even more delightful to behold!!!

One Indonesian Day (Part 4)@ Ansan

One Indonesian Day..One Indonesia Day...oh, well...I should've learnt grammar.

Again....I got to be there for its 2nd time. Only this time..it's mostly indoor so it's bearable. 

But for my wife, Meity, and her fellow friend, Ulfa, they were so busy serving the customers who ordered pangsit, mie goreng, es buah, siomay, and bakso....

At the entrance towards the event. 

This is the real facade of Ansan Olympic Memorial Hall. 

Lots of people flocked to this area..

and we ate lots of stuff to choose from, though.

One Indonesian Day (Part 2): The Beginning

@ 13.10 pm. a throng of people gathered the Ansan gymnasium where Indonesian Day was held. thousands of people kept coming and going out during the event. Now listen..

Living in Korea as migrant workers do not hinder them from having a kind-of-extracurricular that might just work for them. Like these guys' passion for taekwondo was also shown at the event...and a round applause was like heard across the hall.

More and more people were coming in. 

Let me be one of your friends. Eyra made friends already with the students who happened to visit there, too. 

Since we were sitting on the balcony or the side-section of the spectators hall, we could see the whole session of each performance hassle-free.

Eyra was always easily entertained. 

The Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia gave a welcoming speech in the intermission of the event, followed by the anthem of Indonesia sung by (most) of the audience. 

Till we meet again... in One Indonesia Day 2014.

One Indonesian Day (Part 1)@ Ansan

Got to go to Ansan where Indonesian Day was held on June 30, 2013. It was held during a hot summer day. I knew it's gonna be hot, yet we decided to go there anyway. Why? Well...since I'd be surely meeting my friends and be able to eat Indonesian specialties.

* Ok, let's go kids. Yes, I went there with my two daughters, while their Mom was busy preparing the booth where she (with her other Indonesian moms) sold some Indonesian cuisines. 

But..first thing first...: after almost 2-hour train ride, we safely arrived in Ansan and went straight to the multicultural street where the atmosphere of foreigners was more than just visible: it was all there. Indonesian restaurants and of course numerous foreign restaurants were just there.

We met Seonhee as we'd planned. 

*Oh, it was also the day Eyra got her first Android.^^

We were then ushered (ourselves) in the blistering of the summer heat...to the bus stop where we got to take no.62 bus that would take us to Ansan Olympic Memorial Stadium--the venue of the event. 

Got a chance to take a zoomed shot of the entrance to the multicultural street in Ansan. 

Zapped...it was not the time when we were about to go to the event, instead..it was around 4.30 pm where we (with other Indonesian students) were waiting for the bus that would take us back to the nearest subway station to go back to Seoul.^^ 

It's like 30 degrees Celsius in the afternoon. Gosh..what a day. 

But, the good thing was that..the event was mostly held inside the air conditioned gymnasium. 

With UGM students and Seonhee.

Take a moment to capture the experience and memory.