Today we attended San Yang Church, where we will start teaching in 2 weeks and it was quite the experience. This church is considered small in Yansang, there are several thousand members! The city of Yansang is considered small too at 300,000 people!
One of the pastors came and picked us up from our hotel and took us to the church where, before service, everyone gets lunch. This lunch was a traditional Korean meal including white rice and eel soup! I didn't like the eel soup but I tried it!
Next we went up for coffee in the pastors office and sat there for a few minutes, which made us late for the noon service-we were confused why we waited so long to go to service! The whole service itself was incredible, the sanctuary was huge! And we sat in the back with a pastor named Chang. (She will be helping us through the entire summer) She also translated as much of the service as possible which her broken English. After the service we went to a gathering room with tables and sat from about 2-4pm. We could have gone to the youth service at 3 but since we could not understand anything we decided to stay and sit. At 4 Chang came back and got us and took us to another service. At this service another pastor spoke and then the 4 of us were introduced, we all just stood up there and smiled because we didn't understand a single thing!
After this service a family from Josh's class wanted to take us out to dinner. Earlier, Chang had asked us what we wanted to eat and I said chicken! But instead Chang, the 4 of us and the family went out for octopus! ugh. Just what I needed in my stomach after the eel soup earlier. After I choked down one bite to not be rude I stuck with rice and veggies and Korean pizza!
After dinner Chang, Krista and I went to the family that we will be staying with. It is a VERY small apartment and Krista and I will be sharing the master bedroom. I am not that excited because only the dad speaks english and he does not live there during the week, only on weekends. And our room is really small! Even for just 2 of us :( Wishing we could stay at the hotel longer! I guess there are some bright sides to staying in the same home as Krista- we will keep eachother company when we can't communicate with the family.
What was the Korean Pizza like sis?
ReplyDeleteIt was just flat flower and veggies fried in a pan probably. They don't have ovens here!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like some crazy food! The weirdest things I had to eat in Africa were tongue and liver... pretty common stuff, and definitely no octopus or eel! Glad you got some McDonalds the other day though :) Was the menu there similar or the same as ours in the states??
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