"I love technology..."

The most exciting news of the past week was my computer getting hooked up to the internet finally! In classic Korean fashion, the computer guys suddenly decided to come set it up, so all three of us had to make a mad dash back to the apartment during a 10 minute break between classes. Still, it was worth it :) Another related wonderful development is the newest version of Skype- it has video! And, since Jason gave me a webcam for my birthday, it now works quite well to talk to people while seeing them at the same time! It's great! Less exciting news is that the head pastor from my church is moving on to a different church. He's a really cool guy and knows a lot of English, but God's leading him to help another church. Today was his last Sunday at our church. Everyone is quite sad. A few other pastors will also be leaving, but their transition won't be as sudden. We have at least a couple more months with them. It'll be a lot of changes for the whole church. The new pastor coming in is pretty well known to the staff here, though, and was part of bringing Benjamin here- so we expect he'll continue to support the English Bible Study and Worship Service. This coming weekend is the Lunar New Year- a BIG holiday in Korea. It's like Chusok (back in September). So, tons of people are travelling to be with family, we get a day off (it would've been 3 if it didn't fall on the weekend...), and most likely many businesses will be closed. I'm not sure what us wayguks will do since most of our Korean friends will be busy with family and the traffic will be so horrendous... But Sue's planning to come over on Saturday and cook us some traditional food, and Mr. Moon has invited me for some Chinese food, too! Other future plans... I'm thinking of going to Japan for an extended weekend. I have 3 vacation days left to take whenever I want, and since I'm already so close... we'll see. But Tracy suggested that I go just after she's finished her contract so that we can go together. Now THAT's a good idea :)