Acts 10:34-35

This weekend was so busy! Timothy (the other english teacher) showed us around Seoul, we took a bus, subway, and train and we found our way into an open air market in Seoul. I enjoyed it alot! I had alot of people come up to me and many of them would speak all the english they knew. I am so proud of myself, I bargained in Korean! and it worked! My students and the teachers here have been teaching me Korean and I have been learning how to read as well (they told me it takes an average of 2 weeks to learn how to read Korean, so we will see how good I am by the end of next week!)

We went to a food market, where cooks are shouting for people to eat at their station. It gets pretty competitive, and crazy! The food is made right in front of you and they just keep giving you more and more and more! After dinner we made our way to another market, and then we made our way back to the train station, took the train to Suwan and then grabed a bus to get to Luther.

Yesterday (sunday) we had church here on campus. Its been pretty hard not being able to have church in english, although they do put the Bible verse of the readings on the screen, which is great.  The music is beautiful, there are violins, flutes, horns, a piano, guitar, and an organ all at the same time, and the choir excellent as well. I was amazed at how most of the people in the church are involved in the music durring the service. There are 4 pastors, and many Seminary students.

I love the people here alot, they are always wanting to come up to you and say all the words in english that they know. Conversations can be pretty funny at times.  One man at dinner last night,  only knew the words "California", "Hello", "Happy New Year", and "Obama" haha , just one example of many of the conversations we have.

We also went to the Hwaseong fortress yesterday afternoon, I was so fascinated with the architecture, it was just beautiful. We also made our way to a food market. There were alot of Fruits and Vegetables until you found your way out on the streets, then it was all fish. Alive fresh fish to be exact. They knock the fish out and give it to you in a bag.

 I was walking with Eunsook and Nick and I stoped to look at what was in the water and i was like "OHHH MY those are Octopus!" The man saw me, put his hand in the water and picked up the octopus very fast, and put it in front of me and said over and over "EAT IT, EAT IT! " I jumped because it scared me!

He wanted me to eat it alive, for only 6,000 Wons ($6)

I refused. haha I kind of felt sick afterwards, and I am right now as I am typing. hahaha

Today, for Bible class, we traced our hands and cut them out, we made a family tree and put our family and friends names on our hands. We are going to spend time studying more of the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels this week.

Thankyou for all of your prayers!

Here are some pictures from the markets and a few of my students!

Act 10: 34- 35