Here it comes!
Hello my lovely readers.This past weekend was incredibly busy with church things and christmas activities. There are many things that make this adventure worthwhile, and so I'll tell you about some of them :)
Saturday we went shopping with some of our church friends. We mostly spent our time wandering around the main shopping areas and sitting at a coffee shop. We then had rehearsal for singing for our Christmas eve program.
Here is a picture, from the building we were practicing in, of the main sanctuary and the Christmas tree they have set up. The church is so large that I think they have more buildings than Warner.
And this is about an hour later:
Afterward we went down to the Cheonggycheon river to see Christmas lights. The river once ran through Seoul in older days and was a place of socialization and life for the Seoul citizens. In an effort to modernize the city it was paved over (i think in the 70s) and made a very wide road to accomodate traffic and the soon to be bustling business for the area's shoppers. A year or so ago they completed a renovation wherein the stream now runs again, and is a place where Seoul citizens can walk and enjoy. It's really quite cool. Stephanie and I took a tour on a double decker a couple weeks ago, but we walked down there from church, with friends, and looked at all the Christmas lights Saturday night. I stopped at one point and looked at the pictures of the history of the area. It's amazing... the pictures from the 50s and 60s, and even 70s show a very different Seoul. This city (and country) have modernized at such an amazing pace. I could hardly believe the dates on the pictures, where the area where we were standing looked like shanty towns, and reminded me very much of Mexico.
So here are some pictures from Saturday night. Keep in mind that you can always click on the pictures to enlarge them.
Steph and me:
The main square by Gwanghwamun:
One of the small bridges that cross the stream:
Very cool people: (l-r) Charlotte, Stephanie, Candice, me, YunKyung, SooYoung, JunQi, and Brian.
It started snowing late on Saturday night (which would explain why we were freezing our feet off while looking at Christmas lights!), and we woke up to this view out of our window Sunday morning:
Other side of the church, Sunday morning:
And we found these girls, gathering snowballs, at church:
Today when Stephanie and I left the building we took the back door out of our apartment building, and there were people mopping. I don't know why anybody thinks it is a good idea to mop slick tile on a morning when it is 24 degrees, but someone thought it was a good idea, apparently. As we started down the small slope, Stephanie slipped and fell (she's alright). I was laughing hysterically, and as we crossed the small alley I was still laughing. Stephanie was laughing as well, and tried to throw a snowball at me, and I yelled. We turned around to find one of our security guards smiling at us, so we laughed and waved.
These are some of the things that make this worthwhile.
posted by Meghan @ 7:35 PM
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