old friends,
new friends

Chris and Eric enjoying some delicious Korean food

Besides meeting up with Eric we have also made some new friends in Korea. After the Air Conditioner incident, our landlords Mr. and Mrs. Jang took some pity on us and invited us up to their place to sit in their A/C until ours was ready. They told us it would just be for a 'drink' but when we went upstairs to their rooftop patio, their son, daughter-in law and their children were also there and a whole meal was prepared for us. As we began eating they began filling up our glasses with beer and so-ju, a Korean drink that tastes like vodka but is only half as strong. We had a great conversation with them trying to find ways to communicate with their limited English and our non-existent Korean. About 5 minutes into the conversation their neighbour, started speaking broken English to us, so we learned a couple things, he learned English in Japan, he and his wife own the restaurant across the street from our building. We also found out that our landlord is 63 but is president of the Anyang cycling club, and bikes up one of the mountains around our city every morning at 7am. I'm sure that we will continue to learn much about them in the coming weeks, and already we feel like they are surrogate parents to us here, looking out for us and helping us to find what we need.