This last week marked our first month living in Korea. So far it's been a very up and down journey with a broken bathroom, spicy food, a fun volunteer experience at the orphanage, a fixed bathroom, good students and not so good students. We look forward to the many more experiences and adventures in the coming eleven months. But enough of that; on to this last week's highlights.

Last Sunday, we went to a foreign church service at Simin International Church in Ulsan. It was good to worship with other believers together after more than a month of not attending a church. Unfortunately the main pastor was out of town so a member from the congregation preached a sermon about names and their significance. It was okay but we want to go again to hear the main pastor give a sermon. Also, apparently, in summertime church attendance drops as many people leave to go on vacation, so there were even less young foreign teachers there than we expected. Nevertheless we were able to go out to lunch with a group of foreign English teachers in attendance that Sunday. In celebration of July 4th we decided to go and get the traditional American food, burgers and fries, at a burger place pretty close to where we live. The food, although a little pricy, was not bad and it was good to connect with other Christian English teachers.

The work week was fairly uneventful for both Scott and Amy with a few exceptions. On Monday, Scott was informed of a kindergarten field trip to the Ulsan whale museum happening the following day at 9:30 am that he was required to go on. Despite the very short notice, he had a fun time with his students at the museum. There were dolphins, a small aquarium of many different fish, and a 4D movie with sharks, a giant squid, puffs of air and water, and, therefore, many crying children.

On Thursday evening after work, Amy and a fellow foreign teacher at her school, Rachel, were invited to their boss, Cathy's house for pizza and chicken. Amy had a nice time getting to know her boss more and the free pizza and chicken wasn't bad either. On Friday night, Scott attended a farewell dinner for fellow Korean teacher who was quitting. It was a great farewell dinner with delicious food. Yesterday, Scott and Amy cleaned the apartment in the morning and went to Ilsan beach with Rochelle and a couple other foreign English teachers in the afternoon. We had a relaxing time talking and laying on the beach. Finally, today was spent lounging around the apartment reading and relaxing. It has been raining since last night non-stop, which swayed us against going to the orphanage and in favor of having a lazy day at the apartment.

We are looking forward to several trips coming up, including an overnight trip to Seoul this coming weekend.

Well I need to get to bed now. We will write again soon.