Week 6 of Teaching...LOST ON THE BUS! and other stories ;)!!

My roommate and I still really haven't been too different places around Daegu, we have really only been to downtown. One of our church members offered to take us near the American Army base so that we could check out some braiding shops for us to get our hair down at the end of the month. Tahia (my roommate) and I felt that we could go downtown and meet with our friend with no problem.

There we are at the bus stop. The trip from our nearest bus stop to the main street downtown is less than 20 min. My roommate tells me that we should get on the bus that pulls up (bus number 305). Those who know me well know that I have no, and I mean no sense of direction so I usually depend on those around me to get around. We get on the bus and everything was normal...until... the bus keeps going straight when it was supposed to be going the other right. I didn't think much of it because most of the buses we had gotten on eventually ended up downtown... the longer we were on the bus.. the stranger the buildings got... eventually I thought we had reached downtown because I saw familiar restaurants. We had the hope that the bus would finally turn into the main street in downtown... but it never did!!!! Apparently the bus we were on only went around the outskirts of town... of course we didn't know that... so for over 1 hour we road on the bus trying to look for things that were familiar... but couldn't find anything... We almost made it to the end of the bus route!!! We were able by God's grace to get off the buss and transfer onto another bus that we knew for sure would eventually take us to downtown...

Now the problem with all this if you forgot was that our friend was waiting for us downtown. We had no phone we had no one's number on us :S We kept on praying that she would not be get tired of waiting for us and that she would get too worried. (She had been waiting for us for 2 hours by the time we finally reached downtown)

When we finally reached a place that we recognized we praised God and got off the bus and found her pacing and waiting for us, she had actually gone walking around to see if we had ended up somewhere else and she kept on calling the house and calling everyone that we knew in town, and she kept on asking people around town if they had seen 2 black girls LOL! adventures! now we know on what bus not to get on :S

We also had the chance to visit The Loving Hut, a vegan restaurant chain that that they have here in the city. Long story short a lady walked in not knowing that it was a vegan restaurant and she was surprised because the place looked so clean and so different. She had been in America for some time so she started asking us some questions and she started telling us about some of her problems and we were able to share with her The Love of God and why I was a abstaining from drinking and from eating meat. It was a real blessing as you read this please pray for her, her English name is Jenny.

One more story :D

Yesterday I ran into 3 of my students, they told us to go with them to eat across the street at a soup restaurant. (Food here Korean food at least is very cheap) So we told them that we had to go get our wallets. When we came back they had already ordered for us. They ordered a special soup that wasn't on the menu ( u know because they knew that I didn't eat meat) My roommate and I were given from their soup to taste it was a Sesame seed soup, it was very good, ours was some kind of basic leek soup. We were enjoying our time when all of a sudden my roommate nudges me and shows me the bowl where they had given her the sesame soup to taste and it was full of clams.... I STOPPED COLD.... I was like hmmm maybe it was in the sesame soup that they gave us to taste... I didn't want to be rood so I hoped that I didn't have anything in my soup..all of a sudden I felt something clank at the bottom of my bowl....THEY WERE IN MY SOUP TOO!!! I STOPPED COLD...AND DROPPED MY CHOPSTICKS. (Yes I'm learning ;) I prayed that I wasn't allergic to seafood, my dad almost died because he didn't know that there was seafood in his salad once... yeah didn't want that to happen to me... can you imagine... not knowing korean...and can't breath...not a good mix LOL.

Everyday here is an adventure :) Please keep all the missionaries here In Korea in your prayers... this is a serious work and there is soo much to be done. Miss u my friends :) GB!