Well, It has been quite the weekend. On Saturday, we went to It'aewon (the American town) it's close to the US army base, so there are a lot of Americans and mostly everyone there speaks at least some English. There are a lot of American/Western restaurants and stores there as well. We decided to be ourselves and go to Swiss Chalet.. because there was one shown on the map. Unfortunately for us, we spent an hour walking around looking for it and could not find it. So, Scott decided to ask for directions. There was a group of construction workers working on a construction project (what else?) Scott pointed at Swiss Chalet on the map and they all gathered around the map, speaking Korean like wild. They then pointed at one of their fellow workers, who put down his tools and motioned for us to follow him, we did of course, thinking he knew where he was going (silly us). We walked around with him for about ten minutes and then he went to his van and motioned for us to get in. This is something we would never do under usual circumstances... but we got into the van. He drove around asking all manner of people for directions and driving around for like 25 minutes (mostly in circles)... suffice it to say, we did not find Swiss Chalet.
We exited the van after quite a time, and rather than keep looking, we went to Outback Steak House, which we could see quite well... it's right on the main road. That was really good, they have superb bread and bloomin' onion.. our meals were delicious as well. It was a nice change from Korean food... which is also delicious, but in a different way.
On Monday, it was a Korean Holiday and our church was having its picnic. It was being held on Namang-Sahsan Mountain (I definately spelled that wrong by the way), which is about a 45-50 minute drive from the church. We were all supposed to meet at the church at 9:30am and then those people with cars would drive the people without cars. Well, we arrived at the church and were placed in a Jeep with David (our driver), he's from New York, Amy from Kentucky and two older Korean ladies that were supposed to be our guides to the mountain... giving David directions the whole time. They gave him directions all right... half an hour in the wrong direction (completely opposite to where we were supposed to go)... it was pretty funny, we arrived quite late. The day was tremendous though. We went hiking in the mountains, it was beautiful and the air was crisp and clean... you have to watch out for the barbed wire in the bushes though. After hiking we had a cookout.. lots of delicious Korean food, and then we played soccer and football. It was pretty fun. We drove home with Pastor Bill and he took us and Amy on to the US army base for dinner. That was cool.. he's one of only two non-Korean, non-army personnel in Korea to have the card that allows him access to the base, so we were pretty lucky. We ate at a Mexican buffet at the Hotel there and ate way too much, but it was awesome.
All in all, it was a great weekend... but we learned that sometimes looking on your own, even when you don't know where your going is often more helpful than asking for directions here. But, it does give you some interesting times.
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