Making kimchi the old way

In years past the Koreans would make kimchi and place it in the earthen jars in the pics below, they would then bury these jars in the ground and have the hut to keep it dry. This was a natural refridgerator. They could keep this kimchi for years. Nowadays the process of making kimchi is long but the storage is diferent.

Julia's wedding

A couple of weeks ago I attended a Korean wedding. She is an junior teacher at our institute. He is a church member. It was a very beautiful but short wedding. Most weddings in korea are held in wedding halls, and because these halls are booked by the hour you only have a short time to have the ceremony and take pictures. The actual ceremony was about 15 mins long, she had two solos then they took pictures for the other 40-45 mins. There was no you may kiss the bride (shocking)!! In this first pic is the bride and groom and out pastor, the second pic is of them two and their parents....by the way after the western wedding and while the guests are eating there is another wedding ceremony in a different room. This time it is a traditional ceremony where they are wearing hanboks(traditional korean clothes) so they actually get married twice in one day.

Lunch at Ashley's

The foreign and junior teachers went to Ashley's for lunch after mission day. Ashley's is a buffet with both Korean and American food. It was actuallyquite good.

Friends

Here are some of the friends that I met while in Seoul...they are pretty cool. The first few are from South Africa. The group pic is of all of the members of my orientation group. The couple in the centre are Mbali and Pmblani, and at the end is Tshenolo. In the pic with three of us is Myself, Mbali and Sinnette

Others stayed in the funeral home. It was really weird at first to be visitng friends in a funeral home. Surprising enough it was really nice in there. They had a 40inch plasma tv, beds and the rooms were beautiful. At the publishing house we had to sleep on yohs (the floor) a yoh is just a thick blanket placed on the floor.

While at orientation some of us stayed at the Sijosa(publishing house) I was one of those

Orientation

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was going to Seoul for orientation. I finally got around to posting the pics....sorry it took so long. The first couple were of interesting things I saw in the city, for example the gas station was called an oil bank, there was a shanty town close to the subway station, and the wedding hall at night was really beautiful