Labor Day Adventures

Each year a majority of the teachers load themselves and enough food and luggage for 40 people onto a big bus and make the 5 hour jounery to Mt. Sorak. It is truly beautiful! We normally have a half day of school on Friday and leave around 1:oo. We basically get to our hotel that evening and unpack, eat, and hang out.

SATURDAY: Hiking at Mt. Sorak--The Mt.Sorak area is where Sara, Jeanne, and I are going to run our half marathon in a few weeks. Knowing this, Sara and I set out to run up the trails at Mt.Sorak to help prepare us for our upcoming race. I must admit that we for the most part just enjoyed the beauty of the mountains and took very few pictures. However, I will include the few we did take. Also, as it might not come as a suprise to you...but it rained all day. It was a very tolerable rain though. So that is the good news. The down side is that I look like a drowned rat in my pictures. Not my best...maybe in a few weeks we will get some better pictures!

That evening a group of us got together and enjoyed a time of extended worship! It has been awhile since I have been able to enjoy an extended time in corporate worship. It was a blessing!

SUNDAY: Sunday started off with church. We got permission to one of their conference rooms and we set up chairs and had church. Laurie and Casey led us in worship, a few people shared testimonies, and Eric preached. Good stuff. I love that God is everywhere and it does not matter where you are not with your normal fellowship of believers that worship and growing in your faith as brothers and sisters in Christ can still happen.

Later that day, despite pouring rain, a portion of us kept our plans to go the beach. On the way there we stopped at this random light house and is where the pictures below come from.

A series of pictures of myself that I find interesting--maybe you will too!

We did eventually make it to the beach. And though it was POURING...there were some awesome waves. However, Koreans have this thing where they don't like to let you swim in the ocean. On loud speakers they tell you to get out of the water. Since we are Americans and don't know Korean...we can ignore these announcements. However, it is hard to ignore the Korean lifeguards who are blowing a whistle at you and making sure you don't even get your ankles wet! So what do we do? We walk down the beach away from the lifeguards and five of us (myself included) played in the waves. We had a great time. Unfortunately, there are no pictures!However, the picture below sort of captures the day.

Those were our Labor Day adventures...once again...doing my best to enjoy Korea despite the rain.