I'll Chalk that up as a Success

After waking up yesterday, I decided that I would try to find an English-speaking church to hopefully get involved with while I'm in Seoul.  So I researched and researched and researched churches via the Internet.  By the time I was finished with all my searching the day had secretly began to creep away from me, and I realized it was almost eleven, which drastically decreased the number of services I would be able to attend.  Nevertheless, I found a church holding service at 3pm and decided I would try it out.  Since coming to Seoul, I've roamed the neighborhood and areas surrounding my guesthouse but had not yet attempted to take the subway to a completely unfamiliar area of the city.  But as fate would have it, this church service was in a different part of the city; it would require a subway ride, as well as following some vague directions to get there.  I strapped on my boots, pulled on my cap, and headed off into the unknown (with a card in my pocket containing my guesthouse address in Korean just in case.)

Buying the subway ticket was easy enough but getting the subway gate to open onto the platform for me was another thing.  I ended up asking a Korean man how to use my subway card, and he graciously showed me the proper way to proceed.  All the subway signs and stops are in English thankfully.  So once upon the subway it was rather easy to find my stop.  I exited out of the subway and onto the street.  With the first part of the journey down, I lead myself through the streets following the various directions that had been given to me.  Finding myself at the last step of the directions, I looked up from my paper and, as my nephew would say, "Tada!" I had found my destination.

The actual service ended up being kind of crummy.  The worship leader had a button of his shirt undone that I couldn't help but stare at the entire time he was onstage.  Additionally, he sang in an opera-like voice, which made it difficult for me to not giggle.  The pastor had so many different trains of thought running at the same time I couldn't even begin to follow what his point was.  Looking around, it appeared that everyone else knew exactly what he was talking about.  So perhaps it was a lack of my understanding, rather than a lack of his teaching.  Who knows?  Regardless, I made it to and from the church without any real issues, and I now know how to use the subway!  Go Kendall!!!!  I do believe I will be looking into a different church next week though.

I'm off to my first day of training at my school.  Hope you are all having a magnificent Sunday!

It's All About Him,

KendallCooke