Day 5 Going to the house of God. First CG in korea.
Today was one of the most significant days of my life. Why? Well not only was it the first time i'm going to church in korea, but it is also the first time I was venturing out by myself in the Land of the morning calm. Yes you heard me haha. I thank The Lord that I was not lost today. anyway back to the topic. Today, Jihae invited me to her church. so i actually took a bus myself to a bus-stop that was about 30 min away from my school's bus stop. If you think its easy, consider the fact that the bus stop i took the bus from was not a normal bus stop it was actually situated in the middle of a road divider. YES! imagine that lol. It blew my mine away. I had to excercise some imagination in order to find it even though jihae provided me some every detailed instructions. Then, using my very very limited korean, I attempted to ask the bus driver if it was going to "am centre" which is the cancer centre. which is the busstop jihae is picking me up from.
Korean lesson 1:
"Am centre gaa yo?" Going to am centre?
Well the bus driver waved me on board. actually i think i din pay enough fare. but the bus driver gave up trying to explain it to me. din occured to me till much later. lol.
Service was fantastic. The pressence of God truely transcended all boundaries. even though i couldn't really understand since the entire praise and worship was in korean, i recognised 2 of the songs sung. one was hmmmm oh no.....i think i forgot....groans....... nvm i'll tell you once i rem....... anyway today we learned about an adventure with faith. yupyup taken from matt chapt 17 about a boy's healing. Ji hae was kind enough to help me with the translation. The pastor was kind enough to introduce me to the service too :) i was like oh wow. me? After that i went cg. it was different no doubt in the sense that it was carried out in sort of a discussion where everyone would sure about what they have learned in the service and also a topic which we would discuss about. One of it was people we admired and trust. hmmm well I shared about my cg and bro gy. haha see, i din forget about u guys. anyway one thing to note. in korea, the worship comes before the praise so thats different too. but all in all it was a great great church and cg. HanSoMang community church in Mandudong in the satelite town of seoul Ilsan. so go there some day. ps. the auditorium is in the basement too!
JiHae's brother took me out for dinner as Jihae was busy. had a great time talking to him. he has studied in the US for liek 7 yrs? hmmmm long time eh? and is thinking of coming to singapore to study. so we analysised the merits of ntu nus smu and sim. no prizes for guessing which university i recommanded... :P
When i went back to my hall from my university's busstop, the cold nearly killed me. ok maybe thats going too far...but brrrrrrr u have no idea what sub zero temperature feels like. it was like what?-8?-10 plus? with a cold wind, it leeches the strength out of u. and during the 15-20 min walk, i nearly gave up several times. I would never ever want to wish upon anyone a fate as to freeze to death....... brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Played GO or weiqi(the game dun confuse it with my schoolmate) with Max. He has this idea that all asians are masters of this game. I was like duh..........no...I'm not.n the end the score was like 48-18 in my favour so.....ahahah erm maybe we're all gifted in some sense eh? lol. p.s ( south park. all blacks can play bass guitar and have one in their basement) reminded me of that episode.....lol. anyway. gonna go out early to explore with a few others tomolo. maybe moving out of seoul finally. wish me luck!
Korean lesson 1:
"Am centre gaa yo?" Going to am centre?
Well the bus driver waved me on board. actually i think i din pay enough fare. but the bus driver gave up trying to explain it to me. din occured to me till much later. lol.
Service was fantastic. The pressence of God truely transcended all boundaries. even though i couldn't really understand since the entire praise and worship was in korean, i recognised 2 of the songs sung. one was hmmmm oh no.....i think i forgot....groans....... nvm i'll tell you once i rem....... anyway today we learned about an adventure with faith. yupyup taken from matt chapt 17 about a boy's healing. Ji hae was kind enough to help me with the translation. The pastor was kind enough to introduce me to the service too :) i was like oh wow. me? After that i went cg. it was different no doubt in the sense that it was carried out in sort of a discussion where everyone would sure about what they have learned in the service and also a topic which we would discuss about. One of it was people we admired and trust. hmmm well I shared about my cg and bro gy. haha see, i din forget about u guys. anyway one thing to note. in korea, the worship comes before the praise so thats different too. but all in all it was a great great church and cg. HanSoMang community church in Mandudong in the satelite town of seoul Ilsan. so go there some day. ps. the auditorium is in the basement too!
JiHae's brother took me out for dinner as Jihae was busy. had a great time talking to him. he has studied in the US for liek 7 yrs? hmmmm long time eh? and is thinking of coming to singapore to study. so we analysised the merits of ntu nus smu and sim. no prizes for guessing which university i recommanded... :P
When i went back to my hall from my university's busstop, the cold nearly killed me. ok maybe thats going too far...but brrrrrrr u have no idea what sub zero temperature feels like. it was like what?-8?-10 plus? with a cold wind, it leeches the strength out of u. and during the 15-20 min walk, i nearly gave up several times. I would never ever want to wish upon anyone a fate as to freeze to death....... brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Played GO or weiqi(the game dun confuse it with my schoolmate) with Max. He has this idea that all asians are masters of this game. I was like duh..........no...I'm not.n the end the score was like 48-18 in my favour so.....ahahah erm maybe we're all gifted in some sense eh? lol. p.s ( south park. all blacks can play bass guitar and have one in their basement) reminded me of that episode.....lol. anyway. gonna go out early to explore with a few others tomolo. maybe moving out of seoul finally. wish me luck!
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