It is Easter. As obvious as this seems to everyone out there, it is not something that has been easy for me to remember or realize. The church I attend had no type of special activities or preaching or anything. Most of Koreans known to me are pretty content with just letting the day come and go unnoticed. (Wouldn't it be funny if I was wrong about the date?)

 

Saturday night I was invited out to a birthday party for one of the other people who attends Korean class. There were 11 of us foreigners who showed up. We ate at an "Italian" reataurant named Jeenoes I had chicken speghetti. Then we went to the singing room, then we went bowling. That was great fun: 108 my first game, 101 the second. I wasn't really all that tired after all this, so I went with 4 others up to O'Brien's where they drank and I watched people. What a wonderful thing, eh?

Around 3:45am I came to my senses. I walked the 40 minute walk in the early morning hours. I was fortunate as the sprinkles that started when I was halfway home didn't become full fledged rain until I was walking up the walkway to my front door. I felt tired so I went right to sleep, hoping I would be able to get up in time for church this morning. Well, that fear turned out to be unfounded as I awoke at 6:45am!

 

I went to church ready to listen to a long sermon and try not to fall asleep. I informed Mrs. Young that I needed to leave early as I had an appointment. Well, as it happend, the preacher decided he wanted us to have God's mercy, so he finnished preaching at just the time I needed to leave. Isn't it nice when things work out? I hurried out of church to the bus stop where  I was to meet Han Soojung.

 

We caught the bus and went clear across to the other side of town (took half an hour). She had invited me to watch a movie that was being shown for free. It was Spy Kids 3, but I wasn't going to be picky as I haven't really been to see a movie sense I came to Korea. When we arrived, I was in for a little surprise.

 

It seems that one of the reasons she asked me to go was so that some Freshmen in high school would have the opportunity to meet me. I didn't mind this as I love meeting people of that age, but she could have told me first. It was interesting to learn that this was the first time either of them had ever met a foreigner. I guess it seems odd as I am always seeing other foreigners, but I suppose that has to do with my location and the things I do.

 

Anyway, the place that we went is a Cultural type center for youth (adolescents, or whatever). There were children from preschool through highschool there. At this place they show movies on Saturday and Sunday, have a singing room, a library, a room to practice dancing, a room to practice band, a place with around 20 computers for internet access, a place to check out movies and watch them, you can check out CD's and listen to them on nice CD players with headphones. It also has a playground and a little park on the premices. They also had what seemed to be a micsellanious room where they were learning sign language when I peaked in. They also had an office for a counsellor. Oh how at home I felt .

 

Anyway, we went to watch the movie, which was dubbed in Korean, so I had no idea what was going on. I understood a little bit of it, but not too much. It ended up not really mattering due to the fact that something happend and the projector stopped working just as they were starting to really build the suspense. So we went downstairs to the singing room. We were in there for two hours!! Some other middle school and high school students came in. They were all part of a band and made our singing sound worse than what it really was. But it was still fun to hear all the Korean songs they sang.

After the singing room we went and listend to a couple of songs on the cd players and then went around the corner to the Family Mart to get some snacks to have on our litttle picnic. It was good to sit down and talk with the two students. They had a lot of questions and were just fun to be around. I am supposed to start meeting them every Sunday, though I am not sure how that is going to work out.

 

After they left, Soojung and I went to a photo place so I could get 2 pasport sized photos of me. I had to pay around $9 for six of them. Included in that purchase is also a negative that you can take to any photoshop and get prints made for $2/ec. It sure beats the $24 I had to pay for the pictures I had taken for my passport and visa before.

 

I guess I should let you go now. My life is fairly boring (the kind of boring I like) at the moment. I hope all is going well with you. I know I am feeling  a lot better, even if nothing is settled yet. I think I am once again learning how not to worry.