The Final Days!

I fly back to the USA tonight!!

My last few days in Korea have been very fun!
On Friday afternoon we left Yangsan. My host family helped get our stuff to the train deck and when the train was approaching we said our goodbyes and my host mom, Jaeil started crying and then I did too. David, Hannah and Jaeil helped us get our stuff on the train but as they were walking down the asile to get off the train, it started moving! They had to ride the train with us to the next stop, which was about 10-15 minutes. Later David told us they ended up waiting an hour and a half at the next station to catch the next train back! I felt really bad but we were all laughing about what a great story and memory it is!

We arrived in Seoul around 8pm and met Jangmi, our friend from NNU. By the time we made it with all of our luggage back to her house we were really tired. On Saturday we met up with Jangmi at the subway near her work and went shopping at a street market because I had some last minute gifts to get. I ended up spending more money than planned! Dang cheap street markets, everything is a good deal! We met up with two of Jangmi's friends and just hung out the rest of the afternoon. All of the makeup stores give out free face masks if you go in their store so we ended up going in all of them and pretending to look around for a bit so we could get the free masks! Saturday night we just had a girls night watching movies, wearing face masks and painting our nails.

Last month, before Pastor Cho moved back to Seoul, we made a plan with him to go to his huge church's English service and then spend the day touring Seoul with him. His church is huge and beautiful there are 11 buildings scattered over a few blocks that make up the church. The sanctuary holds 2,000+ people in each service and it is always full. Pastor Cho said there are 50,000 members! The English service was wonderful. I have missed being able to understand the worship and sermon at church! After church we were walking around and I spotted a Mexican food restaurant (there were none in Yangsan) so we ate there! It was delicious! For the Seoul tour he took us to the Palace that I went to in May with Hyesu, except this time it was much more hot! And then we also went to the Seoul tower and saw the huge beautiful city of Seoul! I will upload pictures when I can get internet on my laptop. There is a chain waist high fence on the observation deck that couples lock locks on and throw the key over the edge. They are called love locks! And there is no blank space left on the fence to add more locks, it is amazing and beautiful!

On Monday Jangmi's parents bought us three tickets to Lotte World theme park! It reminds me of a mini Disneyland with a castle and everything! There was an indoor park and an outdoor park. It was a lot of fun! We rode a lot of rides and partway through the day Hyesu and Jangmi's friend Shinil joined us. He goes to college in Minnesota so his English was pretty good! It was a really fun day and when we got back to her house we were all exhausted!

I am sooooo excited to fly home tonight! We are leaving Jangmi's house in a couple hours to catch an Airport Limo Bus and fly home! This has been an amazing summer and I am so glad I had the opportunity to come here!