Travels
July 20, 2003
Dropped Jessica off at the bus station today. She starts her mission trip in Busan tomorrow morning. She's excited that she will be living with a Korean family for the next three weeks and get away from Handong. That leaves me in her apartment until next Friday. I already have a list of chores I am going to complete while she is gone. Number 1 is throwing out all her junk ;)
Koreans smell funny, a mixture of hot pepper, garlic, and sweat. Koreans are generally bland. Not taste, but personality (see my previous post about the school system to find out why). This place is fun to visit but I wouldn't want to live here more than three years or so.
Hometowns: Left-Seoul, Korea; Right-Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Center-Galax, Virginia
The foreign instructors here are another case. After teaching at GNSU in Jinju I was convinced that 90% of the teachers have serious personal problems. OK, I thought, Handong is a Christian university, the professors will be much more stable than their non-believing counterparts. No. Still 90%.
Began raining this afternoon. The picture at the top of the page I took while driving back from the bus station. Undivided yellow line means you can pass in South Korea. The car has held up well, it doesn't run as hot since we changed the oil, the only real problem is when you turn it off it burbs and gurgles for about five seconds before going to sleep. Maybe it needs a new muffler.
July 21, 2003
Catherine enjoying ice cream at G-7, a coffee shop in Pohang
Jessica and I spent last week hanging out with the Long family, a couple of lawyers from Greensboro, NC teaching an immigration law course at Handong. They were nice, but David hasn't been bitten by the NASCAR bug yet. Pray that he will receive guidance in this matter ;) Today I have some administrative university stuff I have to take care of, so this will be short. I will try and post on Thursday morning before I leave for Busan but that depends on if anything interesting has happened. Kevin I will send you that math book once I arrive in the States.
Almost forgot: I found THE BEST web page on how to speed up Windows XP, that slow pig of an operating system. The guy that runs it is, ahem, interesting to say the least. Check out his rant on Jack-In-The-Box for proof...
Jessica during her Korean lesson from Catherine Long.
The Longs from NC and Mary from China