1st Day...in Daegu

Sunday May 2...

We were put on a 3 hour bus ride to Daegu, South Korea. That is in the southern part of South Korea. Daegue is the 3rd biggest city in South Korea. It is not as crowded as Seoul, and that is something I praise God for. I haven't been pushed since I got here ;) This city is known as the Fashion Capitol of South Korea.

Ok enough small talk :)

OK so I live in what are called Villas, it is an apartment building but it only has like 3 or 4 floors. I am next to the East gate of one of the famous National Universities. The apartment is like a 20 minute walk from the Institute. It's not a bad walk, except when you are dog tired from a long day.

Our first night the pastor of the Institute told us to walk back to the Institute to make sure that we knew how to get back, if not he said we might not be able to make it on time the next morning for our first day of classes. My roommate and I did as we were told. We hadn't eaten anything and we had no idea where to go or even how to say to anyone what we needed. By God's grace when we got back to the institute one of the Korean Jr teachers was here, here name is Luna, and she was here with another one of the Jr teachers. That was a blessing because she took us downstairs and she ordered food for us. (not easy being vegetarian in a place that you can't speak the language...)

As my roommate and I are walking back... you won't believe what happened to her... We are walking and minding our own business when out of the corner of my eye I see a lady walking up behind us... (the interesting thing was that we had been warned about what was about to happen, but we never thought that it would actually happen!!) All of a sudden... the lady starts touching my roommates hair..(my roommate has dark curly hair)... when the lady is done touching my friend's hair the lady proceeds to touch my friends BUTT! she actually starts patting my friend's butt! While she is doing all of this she continues to speak in Korean, of course we can't understand a word of what the lady is saying! We just start laughing because we can't understand what is going on. Finally the lady is able to say "Beautiful!" She walks ahead of us but has to wait at the same light as we do... we were actually worried that she would try talking to us again... LOL!! can you say amazing first few hours in Daegu!!