Hey Seoul Sister

First off...I've been in Korea for almost a week and I finally found time to write. I think now that I am settled it will be easier to write. Hey Seoul Sister is actually the Seoul girls theme song...we decided to exclude the boys on our team from this song plus I don't think they would like making that their theme song. My team is really bonded together. (anyone get that reference?) I'm so thankful for the Lord putting us together. We are so focused on why we are here. I love these people so much.

I just got to Cheonan. It is beautiful here. I will take a lot of pictures. It actually wasn't that difficult to get here by bus. I already have it memorized haha. It took about an hour bus ride from Seoul to get here.
The kids here are younger than in Seoul. The oldest here is 21 and the youngest is 15, but they all look younger than their age.

Today I had a lot of Korean food. Tonight though they served Spaghetti with kinchi and rice. That was an interesting combination. They have been giving us some American food(McDonalds, fried chicken, spaghetti) but we keep telling them we like Korean food. I think they think we don't like their food just because last year's team had a tough time with the food. Their culture is very special to them as well as their food so I don't want to find them offended.

On Friday they took us to a Baseball game in the Olympic Stadium. We rooted for the Dooson Bears (which is the Seoul team). They kinda looked like the Braves. The other team looked like the Astros and I wanted to root for them, but didn't want to be a sell-out. lol. The Bears won though.

Saturday we spent with the team and walked around Seoul. I felt cool cause we went to this place at night with the entire team and I knew how to get back to the apartment because I went to a bookstore one or two blocks away earlier in the day with two other girls. I felt bad for Emily today becasue I have been navigating everywhere the three of us girls (Emily, Andrea, and I) went and now she is still in Seoul and Andrea and I are in Cheonan. Luckily she wrote everthing down.  BTW just so you're not confused my team members names are Lyndsey, Jessica, Samuel, Andrea, Emily, Rachel, Josh, Matt and Jordan. They are all awesome. :) So Saturday night we went and got coffee at this awesome place that is called Dr. Fishy. The reason it's called that is becasue after you have your drink they have two ingroung tubs on this pation insde that has fish in it. The fish eat the dead skin off your feet. Eight of the team members tried it. It was awesome and it ticked a lot. I will definitely try it again.

 Last night the girls that I stay with in Seoul when I'm there on the weekends gave me a birthday party last night. They are so sweet. They cleaned the apartment all night. I got an ice cream cake! It was delicious.

Everyone here is so nice and the crime rate is super low. I've seen Ffive year old kids walking to school and my team is always like "Where is that child's mother?!?!" lol It's also suprisingly quiet in the city. The people are quiet on the bus, quiet at school, and quiet on the streets. We are loud and obnoxious Americans.

Please pray for the time in Cheonan and for unity in our team even though three of us are in Cheonan. Also for the teacher. They give up there lives for their students and need prayer and encouragement. Pray for wall to come down for the students and Pray for our hearts to be molded like Christ.

I love you and Miss you guys!

In Christ,
Jenn