Had a very intresting Christmas day so far. Except for the fact that i am very close to tears because i miss my family very much, i had the great opportunity of going to a christian church in Okpo, korea. Very excited i kinda dressed up a bit knowing that people was going to look. And they did. Thanks to my great friend and boss grace(most beautiful korean women) we were a bit late so when we entered church it was stacked woth people. I nearly sat on her lap just to get some space.
Intresting thou was that mr hu her husband did not join us for church. He parked the van and i geuss thats were he stayed...
Just like south african churches you get a plamfet when you go into church...In solid korean so could not read it but i take it, it contains the songs and information. The church was beautiful. Big. High sealings. And a big chior. Thay sang christmas song in korean but it had the same tune as the english version so it kinda sound amazing to hear it in korean.
The service was about an hour long and the pastor was full of jokes with the occasional amen out of the crowd.
At the end of the service i shook a few peoples hands and exchanged a couple of 'merry christmas'. This has to be said the koreans are either very intrested in you as a person or the will just ignore you. But mostly they are sicerly intrested in you and always greet with a smile or a sligt nod of their heads.
We had a christmas lunch at a resturant. It looks like in all the korean movies. You sit down on the floor (after you took your shoes of at the door ofcourse) and then you bbq your own meat...
Great fun. Having coffee later on today and then i should probably start doing some prep work for the coming weekend.
To everyone reading this post hope you have a merry christmas filled with love and joy...and appreciate the family you have around you, not everyone has that this christmas...
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