The End of November

Wow.  I haven't updated in awhile.  Here's what the end of November looked like for me (to see what it actually LOOKED like, go to my photos page :) )...

 

Saturday the 26th was our big Thanksgiving dinner.  We spent several hours preparing huge quantities of potatoes, sweet potatoes and chicken.  We also had jello, stuffing, corn, broccoli, cranberry sauce, biscuits and pie.  Although no one was on time, 14 people made it to dinner.  Everyone enjoyed it, although the Koreans preferred to add kimchi to their plates and use chopsticks!  That was very amusing to me.  And we ate on the floor since we don't have enough space at our kitchen table.  All in all it was really nice.  It was fun to have so many friends come and to educate them on a piece of American culture. 

 

The next day, Sunday, there was a special service at church celebrating reaching 5000 members.  Of course, I didn't understand what was all going on....

That afternoon Tracy, Cori, Mr. Kim, Mrs. Baek and I headed to the airport.  Traffic in that direction is pretty bad on Sundays, so it took longer than usual to get there.  Still we were there in plenty of time to meet Abra when she arrived.  The ride back to Dangjin we spent talking and getting to know her and telling her about what to expect in Korea.  She's super sweet.  The rest of this week has been rather out of the ordinary with orienting Abra to life here, moving into Cori's old room and Cori getting all packed up. 

Last night we all went out with the adult class for dinner and Noraebang to wish Cori goodbye.  Tonight we'll go out again with other friends for the actual final goodbye.  She's off to another city for the weekend and will leave for Seoul from there.  Then she's going to Australia for a couple weeks and will stop by for just one more night before going to Canada.  It's strange to think she's already leaving.  She was just over half way done when I got here.  And things will be different not having her around and being the "experienced ones" (Tracy got here only a month before I did).  Still, having change makes things seem like time is going by quicker....

 

Happy December!