Thanksgiving and First Snow!

Despite being away from our families, we had a great Thanksgiving. We celebrated with some new friends we met a couple of weeks ago, as well as with some people who were new to us. When everyone is away from home, you know that you just need to take them in so all can celebrate. We were particularly blessed because one person who ate with us was a "friend of a friend." We'd never met him, and I know that he felt welcome because he told the guy who brought him that we were "the nicest people he'd ever met." I believe that Jesus worked through us this weekend to show this man Christ's hospitality. That's worth being in Korea to me!

Take a look below at the meal we accomplished with two stove burners and a toaster oven! Pictured are two new friends: Jennie (L) and Maritza (R).
Here are some visions of the first snow in Anyang. It's averaging about 25 degrees at night and 40 in the daytime. This snowstorm arrived with thunder and lightning, too!
Below: you can see where the market food comes from! This man is loading cabbages on to his wheelbarrow.

This is a family gravesite. You can see these all over the hillsides when you hike through the woods.



That's all! Thanks for the phone calls and packages we've received. It's a special feeling to feel "thought of." We love you!

Some Technical Difficulties + Happy Thanksgiving!

We've had problems with our internet this past week, so if you haven't heard from us yet, it's because we've basically had no internet. We're working on getting that remedied, but the sense of time is a little different here, so I never expect things in the time they'd be done in the US. "This week," was the estimate for when the internet guys would come, and it's Friday tomorrow. We'll see!

Also, happy Thanksgiving to everyone at home. I miss not being able to have a family celebration this year. However, we're gathering some of our new friends here to celebrate, so we'll have a bit of Thanksgiving spirit here this year. But it's not the same as family, and we miss you!

We've had a first snow here, and I will post pictures when the internet guys have come. Snow (at least this week) has been accompanied by some pretty violent weather. Michael and I found ourselves in the middle of a lightning/hail/snow storm the other night. Lightning came again when it snowed the other day. It made us notice that all the highrises around us (including ours) have several lightning rods on them!

More to come when our bandwidth increases, and Happy Thanksgiving again!

Beautiful Fall!

We are having a beautiful fall! Enjoy the fall pictures on Gwanak Mountain.Sorry, this one is sideways...




Open market. The vegetables are always really clean and already prepared. They're beautiful!


These are some of the farm ladies.


An outdoor workout center. These things are all over the place, especially in city parks.

Fall Colors and Daily Life

Fall is here! We've really been enjoying the fall colors, all the leaves piling up on the ground, and the cold weather. For a city, it's quite beautiful. Enjoy!



The little dot in the picture is a baby stroller--occupied by a baby. We sat here for about 5 minutes wondering where this child's mother was. Turns out she was taking laps around the park while he took a nap! We had to go out to lunch with our boss yesterday, and this time it was to Korean/Japanese food. A lot raw fish, let me tell you! This plate here has live octopus in it. I could see them actually squirming around like worms in a bait can. The last time I saw this kind of eating, it was on the "Strange Foods" show by National Geographic! I did not try it, but Michael did. He merely tried a tentacle, and it "stuck to the the roof of [his] mouth!" I took a short video on our camera, and I'll work on getting that uploaded soon!