Sorry about the way those pics are placed. All the links and such are in Korean, so I don't know how to change stuff - oops!


Today was my first full day in Seoul and it was a good day.


The day began at around 8 am with breakfast at the hotel where we are staying. It is called the Ellui - free wireless, nice beds, decent food and only $70 a night. It was kind of an American breakfast with a weak attempt at scrambled eggs, but overall it was pretty good.


For lunch we went to a tradition Korean restaurant where we had sushi, whole fish, random food served in small dishes while we ate with chopsticks. It was so good, but as most of you know I am not flexible at all! We were required to sit Indian (feather not dot) style the cushions for the whole meal. Needless to say, my legs couldn't really do it for more than 5 minutes at a time, so I continued to change my body position quite often. I know it's sad! The people on out trip left the lunch with sore legs and backs. Regardless, the food was excellent and the company was out interpreter and his wife - great time!

We then walked around Seoul and found a little park with many trees, trails and exercises equipment. It was pretty funny to see. You're walking and all of the sudden there are these benches for bench presses and there twisting, turning things, in the middle of a park. No wonder they are in such good shape!

We then had dinner at this American Steakhouse called VIPS. It was about $35 per steak, so it was pretty nice and all of these meals have been paid for by our hosts. Dwight then spoke at a church from 8pm - 9pm. The Korean people have been so kind to all of us on this trip. The Korean Christians have been especially kind to us with their time, money and just how we are treated. I met quite a few people at the meeting that night and most of them could not speak very good English. 3 guys decided they wanted to come you our hotel to hangout and chat. It was about 10pm at this time and all of us are really tired, but we of course had them in.
It was James (Korean who went to school in the US), Daniel (Korean engineer who designed some of the phone you all use - very smart), David (Korean comp sci. who works for the "Office Depot" of Korea - very smart) and Sam, Alex, Lear and I and I forgot my Korean roommate and out driver, David (Jeung Hae Won). We all talked till about 1 AM about the Church and Korean women. The first 3 guys are mentioned are all about 30 and single, so we talked about the church for awhile and then all comments and questions turned to women. They said when they get together they talked about 2 things.
1. The Church
2. Korean Women

Interesting thing I learned about the Korean college culture. The top 3 thing Korean college students want are:

  1. To learn English
  2. Find a job (the competitiveness here is like 42:1)
  3. Make international connections

Those seem somewhat different than what most American college students want. Apparently when we start the camp, we will be encounter college students who want these 3 things and we, as Americans, can provide 2 of them plus a little gospel on the side!