Jisan Rock Festival, the kindness of an unknown family and a weekend I'll never forget! ♥

The experience of Jisan Valley Rock Festival in itself- AWESOME.
The experience Ruth and I ended up having- OUT OF THIS WORLD AWESOME.

Last Friday afternoon Ruth and I rocked up (...sorry.. must try harder!) to Jisan Valley just outside of Seoul (although it took us over two hours on the hottest bus in existence to get there! I think the whole of Seoul was on the road in front of us!) for what we hoped was going to be a brilliant weekend only to be faced on arrival with the mother of all dilemmas... we couldn't get a tent! Kind of an issue as we had the entire weekend ahead of us. We just stood there looking at each other like, "What the hell are we going to do?!" when out of nowhere our angel, a Korean girl called Sunghwa who was working at the tent desk, came and saved us and offered to put us up for the weekend in her family's home!! And thank heavens for that girl and her family!! They are some of the most wonderful people I have ever come across in my life! The kindness of that family went far beyond any kindness I've ever been shown by any stranger before. It was beyond anything that anyone would ever expect from a stranger ever. And it really does prove the capacity for love and kindness of the human heart. Just thinking about it almost brings me to tears.

Not only did her family welcome us into their home with open arms but they took us to and from the festival each day, let us take multiple showers, provided us with a wonderful home-cooked breakfast on the Saturday, took us out for and paid for a big Korean meal on the Sunday and Sunghwa took us on a tour of their farm (who coincidentally happen to provide my school with some of its vegetables! Small world or what?!) and the surrounding area.

All of this, on top of what was a brilliant music festival, (you can read about the actual festival here on Ruth's blog- 3 Reasons Not To See Radiohead and 5 Reasons Why Madchester Rocks) made so much better because I was spared having to sleep in a tent and go without showers all weekend in the blazing heat, made for one of my best, if not the best, weekends in Korea/ life in general. And not only do we have these fantastic memories we have also have a brand new friend who will hopefully be visiting us in England sometime soon.