Costco, Indian Food, and Church

We decided to be brave on Saturday and get to Costco on our own.  We wrote down the address and got a taxi right by our apartment.  The first guy acted like he didn’t know what it was, but the next guy did.  It was about a 15 minute ride, and cost less than $7 to get there.  Our mission was to find a good, relatively cheap TV, which we did!  We were also noticing some very cheap digital cameras.  We also bought a nice blanket because I was very sad to leave my nice one back in the States.  We got some Tupperware – the first real Tupperware we have seen – meaning that it isn’t glass or $5 for one container.  We also found real bath towels (the “towels” provided for us, which Koreans usually use, I guess, were the size of hand towels, and we only brought one set from home) for $6.  We made it out of the crazy-busy store and found taxi drivers waiting.  We loaded up our new purchases and made it home without any problems! Yes, we were pretty proud of ourselves for making it without any help. 

For dinner Saturday night we went to an Indian restaurant called “Namaste” with a big group from school.  We all met up and walked down towards the beach together and just spent the evening getting to know each other.  While walking down I got talking with a girl named Laura who went to IU and found out that she is a Christian as well! She ended up coming to church with us and the Olsons on Sunday. We both were so excited to find a friend within our school who is a Christian!  We also spent a good amount of time talking to a couple – Miten and Maggie – who live right by us in our apartment complex.  We shared a taxi back with them (a whopping $3 total) and had a great time laughing with them and getting to know them.  It was great to find out that I am not the only one here who isn’t thrilled about seafood – Maggie is the same way.  They will both be teaching in the middle/high school. 

Church on Sunday was pretty good.  It took us about 45 minutes or so to get there.  We enjoyed it, but are planning on trying a different one next week just to see.  After the service, the new people were invited upstairs to have Dunkin Donuts and coffee, so we went.  We briefly met some other new people as well as the Pastor and a few others who volunteer/work with the church.  While we do not know if we will end up going there or another church we are so glad we got started in the process.  It was such a blessing to have other people from school to go to, so for that we are very thankful.