Teaching In Korea Has Ended

Well I'm officially finished teaching in Korea for now. I just arrived home in Canada yesterday evening...Boy am I ever feeling jet leg. I was up at 4 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep. I went to bed around 12 in the morning...that's not a lot of sleep. Oh well, I'm sure I'll catch up on it later.
Since my teaching time has finished in Korea, you can now read about my adventures in Canada by visiting my other web site.
http://rosaleeadventure.spaces.live.com
I won't be writing anything more on this site, so you will have to catch up on my life on the above site. Enjoy!

Sangju Beach

For my last free weekend in Korea, I went to the beach with a bunch of friends. It was nice to get away from things and since it's been stinkin' hot here, it was nice to go somewhere to cool off. I didn't want to go to a really busy beach so my Korean friends said we should go to Sangju Beach. It was to be a 2 hour bus ride from Jinju, but that was okay. I had made arrangements to meet another friend, Sonja, another foreigner from Masan, at the beach. So we set off on an adventure of getting to the beach on the bus. It was pretty crowded and Soa and I ended up sitting on the floor of the bus.
Anyways, we got to the beach and ate some lunch. After lunch we went to the beach and stayed there until about 6.
This is me and the sign going toward the beach.
It was a very nice beach, not too many people, but not too few. We wanted to rent an umbrella, but there weren't any available.
The sand was nice and soft, but crazy hot.
Here's me at the beach.
After going swimming for a little bit I decided it was time to rent an inner tube to float around on. For $5 you can rent an inner tube for the day. It is great. Finally Sonja arrived with one of her friends. His name is Mostaffa and he's from Iran. He's been living in Korea for 7 years.
So we swam, floated, and had fun for the day at the beach.
On the left is everyone, accept Mostaffa.
On the right is Soa, me, and Sonja. Funny story about this picture...Every time Mostaffa tried to take the picture a wave would come and carry my tube toward the shore causing Soa and Sonja to loose balance. It was so funny that we couldn't take a real serious picture.
After we finished at the beach, Mostaffa was nice enough to offer us a ride back to Jinju. On the way home we stopped for dinner at Lotteria.
On the left is the group of us chowing down at Lotteria.
Also on the way home we were able to capture the sun setting over the water and the mountains. It was very beautiful!
On the right is the beautiful sunset. We took it while driving in the car. Turned out really good for a moving picture.
So that was my trip to the beach...My final trip while here in Korea.

Last English Worship Service

This post is a little late in being posted, but I have some spare time before I leave Korea for good. About 3 weeks ago I had my last English worship service at the church. It was difficult to be there and know that it was the last time I would be doing the service.
Anyways, the service went well. We did some worship songs.
Here we are singing. Me, Johnny, and Soa. Yes, I'm actually singing in front of people into a mic. But don't get any ideas, I won't be doing that when I get back to Canada.
We also did a quiz game with the youth. It's almost like Taboo, the same sort of idea.
Here we are playing the quiz show. The winning team got some snacks to eat.
After that we had the service and the pastor spoke. Of course it wasn't in English.
This is the youth pastor giving his message.
After the sermon and some talking about announcemnets they gave me a present for helping, sang the blessing song, and then prayed over me. It was very nice of them.
Here the youth are singing the blessing song for me.
The gift that they gave to me was a fairly big ceramic piece. It's of a man and a woman, dressed in traditional Korean clothes, and there's a heart between them with Korean writing on it. I will have someone translate it for me.

The End is Near

Wow, time has been flying by lately. I can't believe I have only about 12 days left here in Korea. It's been a long journey. Now that the end of my time here is near, I'm feeling a mixture of happiness and sadness. I'm happy to go home, back to friends and family, but I'm sad to leave all the people that I've met along the way while being here.
There is lots to do in the next week or so...Packing, cleaning, saying goodbye, making sure all bills are paid, and dealing with the unknown of going back to a life I left over a year and a half ago.