First Impressions

At the old Governor's Palace

This is the gate at the old governor's palace. There is a huge courtyard inside the gate where the concert part of the Naju Festival was held. The gate is very colorful. The house part is neat, but its not as colorful. We had Tara take pictures of us for our Christmas cards. Hallmark has card templates that you can make online and they will send them for you. Don't feel bad if you didn't get a card from us. We could only send so many.

This is the South Gate. We were told that there are only 4 gates in all of Korea. North, South, East and West. Pretty cool that we have one in Naju.

This is our grocery store. Hanaro Mart. I couldn't remember if I had taken a photo of it.

Thanksgiving

I made sweet potato casserole. I used Korean sweet potatoes which are more yellow than orange. I had to use the microwave since we didn't have an oven. It turned out fairly well. It tasted almost like batter. Everyone said they enjoyed it.

This is our church.

Wolgwang Community Church

The building on the right is also a part of it - I think it is a school, but it is also used for the different groups in the church.

The Food! We had turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (I made), salad (I made), carrots, cranberry sauce, creamed corn - there were also many Korean and Filipino dishes, but I don't know the names of all of them.
Christine and Susan with Cameron. Susan lived in New Jersey for a while.

Tara and some other Korean friends from church. I hate to say that I don't know every one's name.
The Filipino ladies.

Sonya (Canada) and Karen (Canada). Sonya is our new friend. Angela introduced us to Karen our first week in Korea. She is now a very good friend. She is a blinker as well :o) We have fun teasing each other about our countries. I always say I'm ok because I grew up so close to Canada.

Bonnie, Kellan (US) and Beth (US)
Kellan, Steffan (South Africa) and Neelan (South Africa)
Matthew - this is our new teacher Charles' son. Charles, Nes, and Matthew have been coming to Wolgwang with us.

Melissa and Chris (Canada) Dan (I think US)
Susan and Me
I can't remember all of the Filipino ladies names. Nes is holding Matthew and Presca is standing next to her.
Jonah (Philippines) and Beth (US)

The nativity in the gathering space at the front door of the church.

My handsome man! He has such a great smile!

Peppero Day and some other random pics

Peppero Day November 11 - Pepperos are long cookie sticks - there are many different flavors and a few different sizes. Some are good and some are ok. Many of our students got us a box or just gave us one. We bought some for our students - I ended up miscounting so we have a ton left. We have been eating the ones the students gave us off and on for the last month and a half. I think we still have a few left. I think it will take us all year to eat the extra ones we bought.

The students look at you really strangely if you give Pepperos at any other time. I wanted to use the extra ones for the students birthdays, but Tara told us that its like giving out Easter Eggs or Valentines all year. Oh Well.

These are the variety of packages we got. The ones in the fancy boxes were not the best.

We thought there was a really long one in this box, but there were three stacked end to end.

This one is Cameron's favorite. It is a chocolate filled pretzel like cookie - just no salt.

Here is another Korean style outfit.

We got a humidifier for our room - its cool because you use a bottle in it instead of filling it. You just have to remember to replace the bottle every once in a while.