the blue spot

this weekend was fabulous first of all because i have been in korea for now a year and 2 months - 14 months...haha...and i was invited to go to a wedding with my good friends vivi and q. the wedding was of a friend i met when i first arrived in korea- we all went to the folk village together. it was and is still so cool to me to see things come around full circle. that being here a year and changing jobs - though difficult on me at times to move away from my support circle, its still there. its very encouraging!

plus vivi, q and i are very comfortable. they are naturally very laidback and comfortable people, but the longer you are friends with people the nicer and easier it (should) becomes. and i was talking to her about various issues i am dealing with and just her listening appearance and her advice, it was just beautiful. and like vivi and i still have a lot of communication issues just both due to our lack of knowledge - but at that moment i didn't feel or notice anything. her expression said it all and i was just so relaxed and peaceful and happy. even now, thinking about that moment makes me so happy.

but onto the weekends events:

we went to the east coast for the wedding and it was so much fun - well it was rainy and really cold actually so not so fun at first. haha, went to the beach and a lighthouse but spent most of our time inside eating with fiona and chonho - the couple to be. :) we had this fantastic soup which is "ugly fish soup" but its like kimchi chigae with fish and it was delightful! and jjangjjangmyeon which is classic.

after site seeing and freezing - which the beauty of the rain is NO PEOPLE! amazing! but we went back to our pension which was adorable - you could see the sea from the windows and it seemed almost foreign. the couple who owns it likes to travel and make things- and you can totally tell. a lot of rough wood work, which was beautiful and then all this furniture from other countries. we sat there drinking coffee and feeling like we left Korea. then some reading and napping oh it was beautiful! :)

after feeling nice and relaxed we went down to the fish market to buy some live fish which you buy from one lady and then take them to the next lady that slices and dices them up as you watch, for a mere $3...amazing! i watched in fascination as she chopped the heads off with ease. and they cracked up because i was watching intently. :) then we bought some vegetables and some sauces and had a sashimi dinner in our otherworldly pension. after eating and talking and again at our own pace, we walked up the hill in the rain to sneak into a lighthouse.

vivi asked me if i had ever seen a lighthouse with its light on - and i realized i have been to lighthouses but they never had their lights on. it was really cool. pictures soon to come!

the next day was the wedding which was beautiful and humorous and enjoyable. and the sun was shining! so we had a nice walk to the beach and then another fantastic dinner! mulhae which is pretty much seafood soup but you get a bowl with seafood (raw) some vegetables and then they bring out a bowl with what looks like iced spaghetti sauce, which the more i think about it - i might really enjoy! haha, and you just pour as much as you want. sooo good! so cold and spicy and utterly delicious! i loved it! and their kimchi was off the wall! q says that maybe i am just a korean person who speaks english really well. (and forgot all of my korean...)

anyways, we headed back home on the bus whenever we got around to it and promised to go back as soon as possible.

good times.