Sunday, July 19, 2009

Awesome Weekend Trip

Today totally rocked.

On a scale of 1 to 10, today was like a super high 7. (Come one 9 and 10s need to reserved for the amazing.)

We started our Korean lessons today. I wish I could say that Rosetta Stone gave us a huge head up and we were ready to tackle anything, but the truth is we are starting from scratch. So no freebies. However, we meet several new friends at the lessons.

We meet 2 people from the church we visited on Sunday, and 2 more people that were taking lessons. We were the new couple, as everyone else already knew each other. We went to eat at TGIFs which is in the main bus terminal of Gwangju. This is important because it was our first Korean bus trip. It was wild, made even more wild by the fact it was raining. People were holding on to the handrails and sliding on the wet floor. It was very much like a roller coaster ride...the passengers fought for the good seats while braver people stood up and held on for dear live.

After eating, we went to this computer store which was basically a 5 story building filled with small vendors selling anything and everything. It felt like an antique mall meets a huge Fry's Electronics. We were able to find our American plug converters there. They cost 500 won each, which equals to about 50 cents. I don't even want to think about how much they would be in America.

The end of the day we went to information to take buses back home...we were going to have to hop buses because there wasn't a direct bus. So we had to watch and jump off at the right stop. I was somewhat worried, but it worked out perfectly, and now we know that bus 98 can take us to downtown and save money. We also know that bus 9 will take us to the Gwangju bus station if we are downtown. So that means we can get around most of where we need in Gwangju AND the bus station is our gateway to anywhere in Korea. With more practice we can be visiting other cities in no time.

We also have new pictures to load up for you all...but we may wait until we can have a few more than the 3-4 that we have. Most of these pictures are from the local art you can find all over. I have a desire to get a few more shots before uploading...but at least you have something to look forward to.

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