So today is the Korean Hoilday called Chuseok. Its similar to that of an American or Canadian Thanksgiving. The holiday is based off the lunar calendar so the dates changes every year but its a huge traveling holiday. Apparently around 12 million Koreans travel around the country the weekend of Chuseok. Thats not including all the waygooks (Korean for forgiener) traveling because they got a long weekend to travel. All those people moving in such a small country e...

So this past Sunday, before we went to church at 2:30, Seth and I went to a speed boat race at Peace Park here in Mokpo. It was fun to explore and look around the city a little more with Seth at my side. We didnt know when it started so we just planned on being at the waterfront around 12:00. We set off to walking towards the area in a different direction than we usually go. Its a good thing because we discovered a new part of the waterfront. It was around noon ...

Last weekend we climbed two mountains in our little city. The first was a tiny little mountain that we can see from our window. The mountain is next to the harbor so there are some pretty nice views of the ocean (or there would be if Mokpo hadn't put some ugly oil tanks on the coast). The second mountain we climbed was Mt. Yudal which is the highest peak in Mokpo. It's located in Old Mokpo and is the biggest tourist destination that the city has to offer. There ...

Yesterday we didn't have any classes because we were facing the largest typhoon in the past decade. Jessica and I got about 3 hours of sleep before the wind woke us up. Living on the 9th floor of our apartment building made the noise even worse. We discovered that our windows don't close completely so there was a constant draft that rattled the doors and windows. At 8am our building started to sway in the wind, which did little to calm our nerves, so we headed t...

Well we moved into our apartment and it's exactly what we wanted! We were told it was a 2 bedroom but it's really a studio apartment with a loft bedroom. The loft is actually not tall enough for me to stand up in let alone Seth to stand up. But it's ok, there's plenty of storage that we can put things in. Two of our co-workers helped us move from the hotel to the apartment. Vanessa, who has been there the longest, showed us around the block because she has had fr...