Korea September 2009

See all the pics on my facebook account! I couldn't upload them here for some reason.

CLIMBING:

There's a wall at the gym and I climb it, and it's beautiful, I love it, newest favoritist hobby. Chance, Ed and Clark and I are always going there, it's awesome they have auto belle-ers and you can top rope too, so that's cool because I have skills.

OOMPA PARK:

Okay, this is oompa park, with the love bridge. Those are for you baby, I hope you like them. Off of Ooompa park there's a huge church, pictured here at day and night. And an amazing coffee house called Santa Rosa that is absolutely amazing, as you can see from the spread. We're always going there. That night I also took the pics of the apartments. I am in awe of how many apartment building they will group together here. Just to think of all those people, families and stories make me stop and wonder. There is also on outdoor gym there. It's really funny watching the korean people "workout" but you gotta give it to them, I never see fat koreans (almost never).

HIKING:

I went on a hiking trip and learned some things about Korea. 1-The mountains are treasured and seen a source of the spiritual/mystical. Lotsa buddhist temples reside on mountains. 2-People love them and everyone hikes, the trails were filled with people young and old. They were outfitted in top of the line gear or street clothes, they don't care. 3-All mountains in Korea are ridiculously steep and rocky, although at the worst points they just put in stairs. 4-I really like the funny designs on their huts. 5-A backwards swastika is a buddhist/korean symbol for peace. 6-I am a little out of shape, but still maintain an unrealistically high confidence.

WORK:

I am working swing shift, so I get experience all the amazingness as we fix all the broke jets from the previous day. Don't be deceived, I was that close to the afterburner. Working on the F-15 that closely is one of the funnest parts of my job. Working with the people is the most satisfying.

Osan Trip

On Friday I went to Osan AB, with it's huge market of knockoffs right outside the gate, all day! We were there like 14 hours, defintely only needed about 6, but that's okay. I got all the gifts I wanted to for family, so look out, and send me your orders.

That's us eating dinner in a place where you get to sit on couches and eat, definitely going there again.

Us playing darts

Clark and me @ lunch.

Ed and Chance @ lunch!

Some decorated overpass, all of Korea looks like this, trashy!

I'll have to finish this post later, I can't upload images!

Orphanage Visit

I finally made it to the orphanage with the Chapel. They go every Wednesday night. I was fun, lots of crazy little kids starved for attention and candy.

I got to read with this little girl, she was pretty good at english actually, I don't know why I look so weird in that picture, probably shouldn't have posted it.

So I had this kid on my shoulders and I hear this faint drone, and the kid starts flipping out, obviously wants down. He was more excited than when Isaiah hear's a Choo-Choo Train. It was the bug spray mobile, spraying insecticide out the back. The kids chase it down the street, literally in a cloud of insecticide, it's disgusting.

Good times, though, I miss my kids.

Me and Danny are BFFs on Facebook now!

What's going on at Kunsan

I got to do two things that were new experiences for me last week.

I visited A-Town (America Town), now known as the International Cultural Village. It's got about 20 bars filled with imagrant workers that we affectionately call Juicies. I got to sit down with one with a few friends, Chance somehow found out that she was a Christian and I wanted to ask her some questions. Here's how our conversation in broken English went.

Q:Where are you from?

A:The Phillipines

Q:What did you think you would do here when you got here?

A:Be a singer, that's what I did in the Philippines, I sang at weddings and played the guitar.

Q:Did you know you would be doing this? (hanging out in a bar everyday, if guys buy her drinks she gets $$, they definitely like to get close too)

A:No, I hate it, it's terrible.

Q:Why don't you leave?

A: I can't I have a legal contract for one year.

Q:When did you accept Christ as your Savior?

A:A few months before I came here.

Q:How can I pray for you?

A:Pray for endurance, that the next eight months would go by quickly.

Her name is Michelle, pray for her. A few of the guys are pretty excited there's a "new batch" of juicies coming from the Philippines on Friday, some of the guys are pretty excited. I might go down there just to see the look the young women's eyes as they realize what the next year of lives is going to be like. That should leave a pretty deep mark.