Woraksan National Park

Hello there,

I just chuckled because I asked Daniel the name of the place that we went and then asked him to spell it, his response, "W-O-R... aksan?"  In other words, "I don't know look it up."  Well, I found it LOL

So we went here for a day drive.  I get tired quite easily these days much to Daniel's dismay.  He still has the same energy level and wants to get out and see and do things.  Normally I like to hike and get out too but the energy gets sucked out of my body quite quickly.  I just wake up and am ready to take a nap pretty much immediately.  Hopefully this little person will be a good sleeper, that would be great.  I haven't slept through the night in quite awhile now since I can't sleep on my back or stomach and have to get up to use the restroom every couple of hours... ARGH!

Anyway, we went to this place.  The last time we tried to go was when we got into that car accident so we didn't make it that day but we made it back, accident free.  We saw a lot of apple orchards and persimmon trees along the way.  I should look up places to go apple picking.  I know that there are places to pick strawberries in season, I'm sure there are apple orchards to pick at too.

Well, enjoy the park in the autumn (best season ever)!!!

You might be wondering why after looking at those pretty pictures I have this in here... That would be because this is the "squatty potty" I got to use after our driving and walking around.  To make it even better, there was no toilet paper to be found and I am not about the drip dry life so thank goodness I had a wet wipe in my bag.

Then of course you "wash" your hands using this awkward bar soap thing hanging from the wall.  You literally have to get your hands wet in the cold water and then rub your hand on this oval of soap.  It's just an awkward (unsanitary) way of going about things.  So I just used my hand sanitizer.

 Once we got back we went to a meat restaurant that Daniel likes because he gets to pick out and cook his own food.

The only thing I don't like about the place are the "Korean napkins" which are basically 2 squares of toilet paper so you need a lot of them.

Psalm 96:11-13

Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice!

   Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise!

Let the fields and their crops burst out with joy!

   Let the trees of the forest sing for joy

before the Lord, for he is coming!

   He is coming to judge the earth.

He will judge the world with justice,

   and the nations with his truth.

See you, miss you, love you,

Camille



Active with Others

Hey Everyone,

So I know that I was/do post inconsistently sometimes and the excuse is just life.  I remember sometimes and forget others.  Regardless I am still staying active-ish.  Here are some thangy thangs that I have been doing over the past couple of months that I have pictures for that I didn't per se talk too much about.

 This is all the participants at our church's fundraiser for families adopting here in Korea to help with adoption fees and such.  I didn't do the walk/run but I helped out passing out stuff, giving people a ride back, and did donate money as well.

 

This was at our Women's Retreat at Daecheon Beach over the summer.  We were singing praise songs here.

 Still at the Women's Retreat, I think on the Sunday before driving back to church.

 

This was the first of the many ice breaker activities. (A tennis ball in pantyhose that you had on your head.  We had to knock down a row of water bottles using the ball without using our hands.)

 

 The lady that wrote What to Expect When You're Expecting was here and I attended the event.  They gave us each a book from the series and she signed it for us.

 



Out of like a couple hundred pictures on the website this is the only one that is of me (There were only like 30ppl there).  I think I probably had an awkward uncomfortable expression on my face being around a whole bunch of girly mom people.  (We got some good free stuff though so I'm not complaining :-))

 

 We went bowling with some people from our small group and the new screens were super fancy compared to even usual.  We were able to take pictures to put up of ourselves as we bowled.  I came in last here...

 We were able to communicate with people in any other lane but it wasn't anonymous so we stuck to just talking back and forth between our 2 lanes...  Hence the trash talk here lol!

 

Here was the other lane of folks.

 



Here are some of the people.  We were missing 7 other people but it was still a good time and good company :-)

 

At some point in the evening, much to my confusion, I turned into a White couple... :-/ (LOL)

 Don't mind the bowling ball in my shirt...

 

I won the 2nd game.  WOOT WOOT!!!

 

John 13:34,35

"So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other.  Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.  Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples."

 



 

Love y'all,

Camille

 



Belated Happy Pepero Day!

Hello All,

So I forgot to shout you guys out for the "holiday" here.  November 11 (11/11) is Pepero Day here in Korea.  As far as I can tell all that it means is that you buy and/or receive Pepero which are stick like cracker treats.  They aren't bad tasting but nothing super special.  Not too sweet and very light.  My best description would be to say if you had an animal cracker that was in the shape of a thin stick and it was dipped in chocolate.  I've seen a variety of flavors but I have only had the original flavored kind because that is the only kind that other people bought for me.  They also have other flavors such as strawberry, green tea, cookies and cream, almond, nude, and more...

These were my 2 boxes that I received.  The "holiday" is like Valentine's Day at school when you can buy carnations for your friends combined with "Pi Day" where it is based on the numbers in the date...  11/11 looks like 4 sticks so that makes it similar to pepero, just like pi starts with the 3.14 so it's celebrated on March 14.  So yea...

 



 

Sincerely,

Camille

Sometimes You Shouldn't Follow Directions

Hey Everyone,

If you ever find yourself in Korea and able to drive I am going to go ahead and recommend that you not follow the directions of the any construction worker giving you the go ahead...  NONE OF THEM!

I have on multiple occasions now been directed by these "directors" to go and have on almost all of these occasions either almost hit someone or almost been hit.  The crazy thing is that the people literally just keep waving the orange baton thing to say go on ahead as if there are 2 vehicles not about to collide right in front of them!!!

I have almost been hit by construction trucks, people coming in the other direction, and people pulling out from places that are blind spots because they are behind some sort of blockade.  I in return have almost hit other people coming from the other direction and also people pulling out of spots that I can't see.

I just don't understand... Like... When that's your only job is to look to see if it is okay for 2 vehicles to go how hard can it be to signal "hold on" or "stop" to one car and "go ahead to another"?  That's literally the only thing that they need to do.  But instead of doing that they signal to 2 people THAT CANNOT SEE EACH OTHER that they can both "go" when in fact they cannot.  So if the people get into an accident does the traffic person that told them they could go have insurance that pays for both cars?

(PS I looked for images of construction workers directing traffic and without starting to scroll down the images that popped up were all of construction workers with one hand held out saying stop :-/)

I'm just saying.

Camille