Sa jikkol, Seoul,
August 11, 1929.
Dear father and mother:
It is a year today since we parted at
Seattle, and it 'seems that the time has passed quickly." vet
a great many things have transpired. Yest'erday I mailed you
a copy of my report to the Publicity Department at Nashville,
which will in a way summarize a year's experiences.  Last year
when I heard some of the second year missionaries tell their
stories, it seemed to me that a preat deal had happened in a
year.  I said so to Margaret Billingsley one time.  Then this
spring she reminded me of what I had said, and told me she
thought I had seen more at thatvtlme than she had. vou may
use the report any way you please, for the Pacific Advocate,
etc.  Don't bother about re-typing an;r of it; I have^a duplicate here.  If you send off anything of which you would w^nt
a copy, let me know and I will send you what I have here.  I
made four sets.  I think one of them I may use in lieu of
letters to some of my correspondents, or may ask the "Korea
Mission Field'1 if it desires to use any of the material.
Thi3 week has passed as pleasantly as
the last; although I have not heard from you, nor has the
kodak yet been delivered.  Packages are always slow, -.but I
should think it ought to be here by this time.
A day or two this week we had showers,
for which everybody was thankful, as the crops were badly in
need of rain. But they were hardly enough to wet the ground
very deeply.  The condition in the southern provinces' I hear
is very■serious because of drought; which is particularly bad
because last y&ar was dry also.
Although there has been so little' rain,
the humidity has been high enough to keep the cellar floor
in this house wet, with little pools here and there, which
show no signs of drying up.  Mold has grown like pancakes on
the bricks in the walls, nn inch or so thick. When I came back
from § Wonsan I found some of the furniture and do ores gray in
spots with moid.
Two of the nights this week have been
cool enough to make something more than a sheet for covering
necessary "before-1 morning.  I take a. cold bath ever" night, and
find sleeping out oh -the porch very fine.
This week I have cooked rice and potatoes
several times .^JB^ teacher showed me how he likes 'thesi washed
together on the plate with a little salt and butte-ra.  If you
have never eaten them that way, try It some time.  I think it
is very rood.  The Chinese vegetable man t^at comes to the house
gave my teacher and me each two tomatoes th.e. otter day. . TSaese
Chinese hucksters ^arrv their load in b°skets suspended from the
ends of a pole supported on one shoulder, just n 3 they did in
San Francisco. &'That is the Chinese and Japanese  method of carrying load?* 'the'Koreans ^re unioue in usl-tag- the j I £fey; although it
is most certainlv the best method In the Orient.