On Saturday, the second day of my dad’s visit, my Korean “sister” took us out to eat at a very fancy traditional Korean restaurant. She used to be my main co-teacher at the school where I teach.  She is an amazing person and was so helpful to me when I first came to Korea. She helped me settle into my apartment and trained me as an English teacher. She is definitely like family to me, so when she got a chance to meet my dad, she and her husband treated us to a great lunch, then took us on a tour of the Tongdosa Temple.

After the lunch she was our personal tour guide around one of the most famous Buddhist temples in Korea, Tongdosa Temple.  It was a beautiful day, and my dad seemed to really enjoy the place.  We met an interesting man from the UK who was doing a documentary on Korean Buddhism. He talked to us a little about his work and said the documentary will be released in 2015.  This experience seemed to peak my dad’s curiosity about Buddhism.