Adventures in Busan: It's a Small World After All

We think we have found our home church! This weekend we tried a different church than last time. This church is on a University campus and consists mostly of Americans, Canadians, and South Africans. The pastor is from Ohio and even used to work at BFS! Small world, right? Then it got even smaller! We met a couple who has been in Busan for two years, and soon found out that the wife has a connection back in Indiana to someone that Justin worked with, and she had even sent us a Facebook message a while back. Then, after chatting for a bit, I found out that she grew up in Gaston, Indiana! For those of you who don’t have a clue where that is, it’s about 20ish minutes from Upland. So that was a fun connection!

We really enjoyed the church service and were so incredibly welcomed by this group of people and were even treated to a free lunch afterwards! This church just seems to have more of the community-like atmosphere that we are looking for. It was such a great time, and we didn’t get home until 3:00! We are so grateful to feel so confident that this church is where we should be for now. It is such a blessing to begin to have the Christian community around us!

Sunday evening we got to experience a Busan Soccer game. A group of 10 of us took the subway to the Sports Complex where there is a gymnasium, swimming pools, baseball field, and soccer stadium. The game ended in a 0-0 tie, but it was still a lot of fun! There are three guys on the team who played on the Olympic team for Korea, so they did a little presentation after the game, and the Koreans were screaming and cheering like crazy for these guys! We are excited to go to a baseball game soon.

The rest of the weekend was pretty laid back. Friday we had a work dinner at a “Mexican” restaurant, which was good. We got to enjoy a beautiful view from the restaurant and spent most of the evening chatting outside with friends while looking out over the canal, the Diamond Bridge, and several of Busan’s skyscrapers and high-rise apartments. Saturday was low-key with a trip to E-Mart and an adventurous trip to get pizza. All in all, it was a successful weekend!

This week is, of course, starting out a little crazy again. This time it’s not completely because of construction, but partly. We are still not allowed back in our classrooms. They are hoping for Wednesday now. The other reason it has been crazy is because of Typhoon Bolaven. It is supposed to hit us Tuesday morning (Wednesday night for most of you), and we’re guessing that we’ll be stuck in our apartments most of the day. They are saying that it will go from a Category 2 in Japan to a Category 1 here. That still means high winds and lots of rain though. We are strangely kind of excited to see what it’s like! J

As always, we love to hear from you and are so thankful for Skype and Google!

Enjoy these few pictures from the last few days!