Saturday in 대전(유성)

Wow, look at me...

The lunch we had...Beef galbi..

I am too shy for the camera...But Jenny still snaps me..

More Jenny pics...during our lunch...having galbi..

Jenny smiling for me...

At the residence.

There Jenny is again infront of the tower..

Thats Jenny infront

of the tower..

Me standing in front of the tower..

The tower at the university where Jenny studies..

Today has probably been one of the best days of my life! I got on the bus to visit Jenny(장지선) and i really had a wonderful time with her. This whole week, I was preparing myself firstly for the trip, because I have been to Daejeon before, but I haven't been to Yuseong, where she stays, so I was a little nervous, this morning, when I got up, and went to Yawoori. One good thing that happened, as I was exiting the bus, to buy my ticket, one of my church members was on the same bus, and also told me she is going to Yuseong, and WOW! It looks like God had this meeting planned! This church member was really so kind, and nice to me, and even bought me coffee for the trip to Yuseong. The busride went by so quickly, and in the back of my mind, I was thinking what is my meeting with Jenny going to be like. We saw each other a lot at the church, but this was the first time we meet in public.

We got to the Yuseoung bus terminal, and there she was. I was so happy to see her, and we started to plan what we would do for the day. We first went to walk into some markets, and I bought me some walnuts. Been looking for them in Korea, and ironically I found them today. After that, she took me to her university, and showed me her library. Having in mind that the university only opens in March, I was astonished, with how full the library was, and like in South Africa, where a study room is very noisy usually, this was really another eye opener, on how much Koreans put effort in their studies. Firstly, because its vacation, and secondly, because there wasn't a single noise in the study room.

After that, Jenny took me to her study place, and we stayed at her place for about 1 hour or so, and just chatted, and get to know each other better. After we went there, we decided to have lunch. First we wanted to have pizza, but we decided against it, and we ended up eating Galbi, and it was a lovely lunch, and the food was so fresh and delicious. The talking was really nice, and I have to say for a girl that only started to talk to me about 3 weeks ago, I am really impressed with the way she improved! I also gave her Ferrero Rocher chocolates for valentines day, and she really appreciated it, and thats why she insisted to pay for the food. I was going to pay for it, and when I went to the bathroom, I saw she paid. Korean girls are really humble, and they don't always understand when the guy goes out, and wants to pay, that its the guys job to spoil the girl, but we went to drink coffee afterwards, and then we both took a bus back to Cheonan, and chatted for most of the time. I even taught her some Afrikaans today, and she can even ask Hoe gaan dit now!

I learned a couple of new words today, like Goegoema, that means sweet potato, so mom, your new name is sweet potato! We got back to Cheonan, and then I took my bus home, and her mom came to fetch her.

To think, I only met this girl, 3 weeks ago, and already we are having such a good time, and the language isn't even a problem. We can communicate, and thats good! Im learning Korean, and having somebody like Jenny around is really cool, because now we are planning our next trip, to Seoul, or to Everland. Finally it seems like things are going well!

Here I post some pictures of me and Jenny today...