A Blog out of time

So much happened this week! When I think of it all I’m surprised it was all in one week, which technically still isn’t over yet.

Sunday we found our church! We went to Hallelujah Christian Church in the area of Seongnam where we work called Yatap, and we liked it a lot. It’s the biggest church I have ever seen, with it’s own bus route to pick people up, but the English service is about 30-40 people, and kind of remind me of IVCF, but with a lot more adults… =). The people were friendly, the message was good, and the music was great (although a tad loud) but nothing is perfect. We will definitely go back. http://hem.hcc.or.kr/

Tuesday we finally got our alien registration cards, which means we are legal registered foreigners, and they can’t just kick us out on a whim. We also went and after much time got bank accounts – and got paid! Yay! Even banks are different here, we couldn’t have a joint account which confused us, so we just got one under Chris’ name, and then I had to go back and get one for me, because the school would not pay me into Chris’. Anyway it happened, and then Thursday we transferred money over to pay our credit card and loans. They said it would take a few days, but it was there in a few hours. Double yay! It felt really good to be able to put something on to Chris’ loans, even if it barely made a dent… We also got a cell phone, after much communication efforts at a local dealer who did not speak english, but who was very nice. And we discovered after one month of living here, that there is a fantastic garden on our roof, with a mini put with 4 holes.

Friday was a holiday – Foundation Day, celebrating when the first part of South Korea was founded, more than 4000 years ago! So we thought it fitting to go visit the restored ruins of a palace in Seoul. An 70 min Subway ride got us there just after noon, and we were immediately swamped by groups of university students wanting to take a picture with us… this confused us until one of them mentioned it was homework and they had a list of English words to say. It felt really strange though, because we were surrounded by the palace guards who are not aloud to change face expression or acknowledge anyone while tons of people get their pictures taken with them. I did too, just because. After a while of exploring the palace area buildings we went out for lunch. Suddenly starving we went to the first thing we saw, which was called The Restaurant, although it turned out to be very pricey and mostly fish. =( but it was something. Beside the palace area was the Korean Folk Museum, so we explored that too, which in some ways was better because it was a lot more varied. So, we took tons of pictures and I will post them on facebook at some point =). Supper consisted of egg, cabbage, ham, and cheese sandwiches we bought in the Subway when we were switching lines, and I am sad to say I greatly preferred it to lunch. And I can’t forget ice cream sticks from Paris Baguette. They are so good. =)


Our work week is still very exhausting and sometimes very tough, but they are still trying to change it so it is better. Chris got more antibiotics, and is improving but still tired more easily. Thank you for your prayers,

Kay =)

p.s. I also made cookies in a pan...