Last weekend we went on a teacher's retreat. It was at a place called the English Village. The town is called
Yongpeong. It was about two hours on a bus from our place. What a beautiful place. From what I understand, this place was built and funded by the Korean Government, but they have the
SDA Institute running it for three years. Other than that, I don't know much. It was made to look like New England in the colonial era. It is out in a much more rural setting, and it is really clean and nice. This is the building you first see when you come in. The lettering doesn't really go with the rest of the motif, but it does get your attention.
Here is a
vew of some of the dorm housing and some nice green common areas. The telephone booths are an interesting thing. They look like something from England in the 50's or 60's, not colonial New England-but, what ever. :)
This was the dorm house we were staying in. It was so spacious and clean! We enjoyed it. Even the
bunkbeds were acceptable when the place was that nice.
Here is Peyton in one of the phone booths with all of his friends he made while he was there.
There are many farms along this same area. This was a farmer on his tractor taking city people out for a ride. They come to the farms on the weekends so that they can see what the rural life is like. I took this photo because I thought the tractor was really unique and interesting.
We were trying to work out some of the extra energy by taking Peyton down to the soccer field and getting him to run for awhile. It worked. He was having a really good time. He had more fun when some of the 'big kids' came down and played too.
Gracie wasn't feeling very good. She had a mystery sickness while we were there. She had a fever for three days with no other real symptoms. But it really wiped her out, so we didn't try to run the energy out of her.
Here we are. She was playing with the camera and taking lots of photos, so I helped her take one of us together. Her arms aren't long enough to do this kind of shot. :)
Looking up at 'the village' from the soccer field. It's nearly sunset.
Looking in the opposite direction. There were hills and mountains all around us. The air was crisp and clean. And, when the sun went down-it was cold.
I went out for a hike with a group of people on Sabbath afternoon. Shane and the kids napped, but I was up for an outing. This statue is at the beginning of the trail. I thought I would be funny and try to do the pose too. I hope it doesn't mean anything
wierd! :)
When we got to the top of the trail, there were all of these little stone piles. Then, a little further and we got to see a real, live Buddhist "
monastery". It was really interesting. And the scenery was so beautiful!
Here is the entrance. The big building right there is the actual temple. I wasn't supposed to take photos of the inside, but didn't know until I had already taken them...oops!
I thought this building was really neat. If you've been reading these blogs, it's pretty obvious, that I really appreciate the traditional designs of these old places.
This one was a bit further up the hill. Right behind it is a hillside with lot's of flowers and trees. It was really beautiful. There was amazing woodwork on this building-carvings of flowers and birds in the doors and all over the walls. It was very cool!
Here is a vew of some of the dorm housing and some nice green common areas. The telephone booths are an interesting thing. They look like something from England in the 50's or 60's, not colonial New England-but, what ever. :)
This was the dorm house we were staying in. It was so spacious and clean! We enjoyed it. Even the bunkbeds were acceptable when the place was that nice.
Here is Peyton in one of the phone booths with all of his friends he made while he was there.
There are many farms along this same area. This was a farmer on his tractor taking city people out for a ride. They come to the farms on the weekends so that they can see what the rural life is like. I took this photo because I thought the tractor was really unique and interesting.
We were trying to work out some of the extra energy by taking Peyton down to the soccer field and getting him to run for awhile. It worked. He was having a really good time. He had more fun when some of the 'big kids' came down and played too.
Gracie wasn't feeling very good. She had a mystery sickness while we were there. She had a fever for three days with no other real symptoms. But it really wiped her out, so we didn't try to run the energy out of her.
Here we are. She was playing with the camera and taking lots of photos, so I helped her take one of us together. Her arms aren't long enough to do this kind of shot. :)
Looking up at 'the village' from the soccer field. It's nearly sunset.
Looking in the opposite direction. There were hills and mountains all around us. The air was crisp and clean. And, when the sun went down-it was cold.
I went out for a hike with a group of people on Sabbath afternoon. Shane and the kids napped, but I was up for an outing. This statue is at the beginning of the trail. I thought I would be funny and try to do the pose too. I hope it doesn't mean anything wierd! :)
When we got to the top of the trail, there were all of these little stone piles. Then, a little further and we got to see a real, live Buddhist "monastery". It was really interesting. And the scenery was so beautiful!
Here is the entrance. The big building right there is the actual temple. I wasn't supposed to take photos of the inside, but didn't know until I had already taken them...oops!
I thought this building was really neat. If you've been reading these blogs, it's pretty obvious, that I really appreciate the traditional designs of these old places.
This one was a bit further up the hill. Right behind it is a hillside with lot's of flowers and trees. It was really beautiful. There was amazing woodwork on this building-carvings of flowers and birds in the doors and all over the walls. It was very cool!
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