Weekend in Chunchon

This last weekend we went back to Chunchon along with our church and most of the teachers from Connexus. With our church (Grace and Peace Church) we celebrated Thanksgiving with Jesus Village Church (we had already visited this church over our holiday a couple of weeks ago). We arrived on Saturday evening and had a barbeque outside then sat around a fire singing songs. We slept at this hunting lodge located in the mountains around Chunchon. It was a beautiful area. I think I appreciate being in nature so much more after living in Seoul. Sometimes I feel kind of nature deprived.
After the camp fire a bunch of the Connexus people hung out in one of our rooms. You'll notice us sitting on some mats and there are no mattresses in the room. This was exactly like our hotel in Sokcho. This is Korean style although many Koreans do sleep on western style beds. Sleeping on the floor is a bit too hard for my liking but again it saves on space. In the morning we cleaned up all of the bedding and stuck it all in the closet, this way we could fit a lot of people in one room and all eat breakfast together sitting on the floor.
After breakfast we drove into Chunchon and had a joint Thanksgiving church service in a park. On our drive in we ran into a whole bunch of rollerbladers. They were actually all participating in a marathon. In Canada I think it is pretty common that the streets would have be blocked off for something like this. This was not the case here. There were people directing the traffic but there were times when people were rollerblading right in front of our vehicle. It was entertaining to watch.
It was such a beautiful day and setting for a church service.

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