lanterns

There are these great lanterns all over the city, especially around buddhist temples, because the last Wednesday of the month is buddha's birthday. There is a temple in my neighborhood. Last night some people came over to play a round of yahtzee and hang out for a bit at my apartment. We were walking from the subway station, it was dark and the lanterns were all lit up along the sidewalks and then concentrated around the temple. It's really nice looking. I want to take some pictures soon to post before they take the lanterns down. Too bad I don't really want to celebrate buddha's birthday. Can we redeem this holiday?

This Wednesday is children's day in Korea. Today, we had almost 20 kids at our worship gathering at the apartment in Suji. They mostly came because we had a reporter there who's videoing two twins who won some kind of English speaking contest. The mom told the reporter that they learned English at our church (they already knew English before we met them) and so I guess the reporter came to check us out. Anyway, grace and mercy to Shannon and Jim Bob who took the kids together for children's church. They had a rough go of it this morning, but handled it beautifully.

In other news, Rob, our pastor from Cypress Creek, and Bob, who came to help us with the logistics of setting up a business (to be self-supported and help with our visa situation) are here this week. So, we are going to take a trip to Jeju island (the Hawaii of Korea) this week to spend some time with them. I am excited about that!