First day in Korea!

We are just wrapping up our first day in Korea, quite the experience! We have seriously been on a bus, taxi, plane or subway over half of the last 3 days! We are in Yangsan at a hotel tonight.

Today we went in to Seoul to to have lunch with a man that Justin knew. He took Josh, Justin, Krista and me out to a traditional Korean meal. We sat on the floor at small tables and everything. The appetizers included a pumpkin soup and a kimchi soup along with raw salmon and shrimp. We were then served vegetable noodles. The main course was a bowl of rice with sides including oysters, baby octopus, seaweed, spinach, more kimchi and pork. We also had a soup with tofu, spices and clams. And the dessert was a cinnamon spice tea and oranges. I tried nearly everything that was served except the clams and shrimp! The baby octopus was really spicy! The raw salmon I had to literally choke down because our hosts were watching me. I learned how to use chopsticks for the first time today so our hosts were always watching me and chuckling at my efforts. It was an interesting experience and all of our legs were dying by the end of the meal at that mini table!

Because of this long traditional meal we missed our bullet train (2 hours) to Yangsan at 1pm. So we had to wait and catch a bus at 4 that took 5 hours+. We finally got to Yangsan and then had to take an 1hr and a half subway ride followed by a taxi to our hotel. But when we got to the stop at the subway we couldn't afford two taxis and a random man offered us a ride. So 3 went in a taxi and Josh, Hyesu and I rode with the man Hyesu was talking with.

Tomorrow we meet the pastor of the church that we will be teaching at! I am ready to get going with teaching and stop traveling everyday/all day!