Well, the rain was a fallin for about 2 days. I never seen it rain like that before and I guess that Koreans hadn't either. It was crazy. An hour away had a bus or two half covered with water. It has been easy at work. In fact, it has been too easy. I've taught about 25 hours in the last month and none this week. I have just sit there and chatted on facebook. Today I took me a two hour nap at work on the bench in the 'English Only Zone'. I went to feelin' bad, but then my co-worker told me that the 'foreign' teacher slept all of the time last year.
I am on my way to the East Sea. It should be nice weather for once tomorrow. It rained more there than here. We are talking about feet of rain at a time. It is crazy. I am going with 2 Korean friends and a friend from Scotland. It should be funny. My friend form Scotland wants to be an Anglican priest and he was a monk for 1 year. What the heck! LOL! That is funny. We are renting a 'pension' which is a fancy beach condo for 2 days. It should be interesting since last time I slept in a beach hut. I hope that I ain't fried again like last time. I wish I'z able to get on here and write more a bit more. I just don't think of it. Well, my friends are on their way to the subway station, so I better start to walkin' with my backpack and pillow. We have a 3 hour drive ahead of us and it is 9:35 already. This should be fun!
Friday, July 29, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
The Weekend of Glory
If you was to ask me a couple days ago what I was gonna be doing over the weekend, I would have said that I have no idea. Then I was invited to visit a island called Mu-we-do. Of course, I'z excited about it. They ain't much time that goes by that I'm not busy doing something..., but this seemed super fun. I had almost no information about where I was going. My friends organized this and I trusted that they knew what was up with this place. I took the subway from my station and got off at the transfer stop. My friends wadn't there, so I found me a spot on the floor and used my backpack and a pillow. A worker come up to me and ask me to not lay down, so I got up and sit where he ask me to. It wadn't even 2 minutes after when he come up to me and told me in perfect English that I should sit some place else. He ask me where I was going. Of course, I didn't know so I seemed like an idiot. I just said that me and my friends was going to go to a island. He said that they wadn't no islands around there. This was a total joke because it was less than 10 minutes from the sea. That was really funny.
So, I met up with my friends and took the subway to the national airport. This place is right cool. There's a huge garden in it. There are even people that drive these carts to sweep the floor. It don't get no better than that. We continued on in a taxi and finally took a very very short boat ride over to the island. When we got there we walked a couple miles or so to the beach. We seen a dead beast a ditch alongside of the road and many random animals that was alive too. I was surprised to see many deer that were ready to be eaten. Finally we got there and paid $7 a person to rent a hut on the beach. Are you kidding??!! It was amazing. So small, yet perfect for the weekend. They was 4 of us that need to pack into this small place with all of our stuff. Luckily, these 4 people are quite easily content with whatever rolls their way.
This is when the day took off in the right direction. I took me a nap and the three others took them out a walkin' on the beach. God knows what they did while I was sleeping. I don't want to know! We went and had supper at a seaside restaurant and had some amazing food. Sometime during all of this, my friend decided to say hi to a school group as we passed by. This is totally a normal thing to do here. Then they invited us to participate in a watermelon and three legged race. I took 2nd in the first and they put me with the most tiniest kid for the second. I fell once during the race and I was laughing harder than you could ever imagine. Then, we were somehow included in this soccer team trip for the rest of the evening. We went off and done our own thing and were invited to join them for so-ju and three layer pork along with kim-chi and various other fixins. Wow! Just after eating they set up a singing screen and some microphones on the beach. Good thing they give me some so-ju because I sung a song with my friend. We were terrible. They still cheered and was more than excited. We were rock stars for the evening.
After this we went walking on the beach and through various tidal pools. I left a funny voice message for my language exchange partner and then slept like a baby in a tuna can. In the morning, I realized that I was burnt on just half of my body. I have NO idea how that happened. We went back to the mainland and took a few subways back to our area. Then we decided to go to and all you can eat buffet. It is a weird mix of food from around the world and nothing is exactly right on, but I eat my heart out. All I can say is that even this was glory and then some.
So, I met up with my friends and took the subway to the national airport. This place is right cool. There's a huge garden in it. There are even people that drive these carts to sweep the floor. It don't get no better than that. We continued on in a taxi and finally took a very very short boat ride over to the island. When we got there we walked a couple miles or so to the beach. We seen a dead beast a ditch alongside of the road and many random animals that was alive too. I was surprised to see many deer that were ready to be eaten. Finally we got there and paid $7 a person to rent a hut on the beach. Are you kidding??!! It was amazing. So small, yet perfect for the weekend. They was 4 of us that need to pack into this small place with all of our stuff. Luckily, these 4 people are quite easily content with whatever rolls their way.
This is when the day took off in the right direction. I took me a nap and the three others took them out a walkin' on the beach. God knows what they did while I was sleeping. I don't want to know! We went and had supper at a seaside restaurant and had some amazing food. Sometime during all of this, my friend decided to say hi to a school group as we passed by. This is totally a normal thing to do here. Then they invited us to participate in a watermelon and three legged race. I took 2nd in the first and they put me with the most tiniest kid for the second. I fell once during the race and I was laughing harder than you could ever imagine. Then, we were somehow included in this soccer team trip for the rest of the evening. We went off and done our own thing and were invited to join them for so-ju and three layer pork along with kim-chi and various other fixins. Wow! Just after eating they set up a singing screen and some microphones on the beach. Good thing they give me some so-ju because I sung a song with my friend. We were terrible. They still cheered and was more than excited. We were rock stars for the evening.
After this we went walking on the beach and through various tidal pools. I left a funny voice message for my language exchange partner and then slept like a baby in a tuna can. In the morning, I realized that I was burnt on just half of my body. I have NO idea how that happened. We went back to the mainland and took a few subways back to our area. Then we decided to go to and all you can eat buffet. It is a weird mix of food from around the world and nothing is exactly right on, but I eat my heart out. All I can say is that even this was glory and then some.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Fun Times and Then Some
Well, I ain't wrote in a while. Time's a tickin' and life just keeps plowing ahead. I can't find enough time to do all that needs done and my random variety of sicknesses and problems keeps me behind all of the time. There just ain't enough time to do all that I need to do.
However, this weekend was great. I was invited to visit an Anglican church in Seoul with a friend. He is into that sort of thing more than anyone I've ever known. I never would have gone if he had not invited me. When you are in Korea, more random things happen than most places in the world. So, I went to an Anglican church. It was in English and that was a plus. There were world leaders from the English speaking world among the 50ish people. It was random.
Every detail of this two day trip was planned by a nun I had never heard of in a city that is 5 hours away. 5 hours away means the opposite side of the country. My friend knows this lady, so she was cool and arranged that we visit this place. We was greeted by the owner of a Korean packaging company who is just plain rich. I doubt I've ever talked to anyone richer. He let us know that we'd be staying at their 'guest house'. It was nothing short of a mansion. I ain't never even heard of a fireplace in a Korean house. This one had one and a library to boot. We toured a university or two with the dean of the university giving a personal tour. Of course, we had coffee with him as well. These are the things that only happen in Korea. This guy had no idea who we were. However, he give it his best shot to give us a tour and show us around.
After dinner with the host family, we went to a crazy expensive chocolate store and then off to the bar and finally to a 'singing room'. I sung several country songs which made them very very happy. My friend from New Zealand told me that he didn't think people like me existed anymore. It was funny. The really funny thing is he meant it as a genuine compliment. In the morning we went their house after getting picked up in a luxury car. We drove into the gated community and parked in the underground parking lot. I was shocked to see the crazy expensive cars lined up. We got out and went up in the most fanciest elevator I ever seen in my life.
Then we went into the house. The living room was bigger than my house. It was crazy. We was so awestruck, but we had to act like it was totally normal. This is not normal in Korea and I don't think I know a Korean who has even had such an experience or anything similar. We are talking rich and famous type house. Way crazy! We ate some really good food and then did our day of touring Anglican stuff. I saw the first Anglican church built like a Buddist temple. It was sorta like a church inside, but you had to take your shoes off. On the outside it was more like a temple. There were pictures of all people that was killed for their faith during the Korean War. The priest was more than excited to greet us. It was cool. Then we went to visit another church with similar history on a remote island. The early Christians would hide on these remote islands so they wouldn't get killed. The woman drove us everywhere and paid for everything during this voyage. He great-uncle was one of the first priests here. I could see just about the whole history of the message of Jesus within this family. What a great thing to have seen from the inside. Just amazing. The impact that this family had for the Kingdom of God is just insane. The largest church in the world is in Korea now. Without this family, it wouldn't have happened. Just amazing. They were the first. They risked their lives and the Gospel is rather well known here now.
However, this weekend was great. I was invited to visit an Anglican church in Seoul with a friend. He is into that sort of thing more than anyone I've ever known. I never would have gone if he had not invited me. When you are in Korea, more random things happen than most places in the world. So, I went to an Anglican church. It was in English and that was a plus. There were world leaders from the English speaking world among the 50ish people. It was random.
Every detail of this two day trip was planned by a nun I had never heard of in a city that is 5 hours away. 5 hours away means the opposite side of the country. My friend knows this lady, so she was cool and arranged that we visit this place. We was greeted by the owner of a Korean packaging company who is just plain rich. I doubt I've ever talked to anyone richer. He let us know that we'd be staying at their 'guest house'. It was nothing short of a mansion. I ain't never even heard of a fireplace in a Korean house. This one had one and a library to boot. We toured a university or two with the dean of the university giving a personal tour. Of course, we had coffee with him as well. These are the things that only happen in Korea. This guy had no idea who we were. However, he give it his best shot to give us a tour and show us around.
After dinner with the host family, we went to a crazy expensive chocolate store and then off to the bar and finally to a 'singing room'. I sung several country songs which made them very very happy. My friend from New Zealand told me that he didn't think people like me existed anymore. It was funny. The really funny thing is he meant it as a genuine compliment. In the morning we went their house after getting picked up in a luxury car. We drove into the gated community and parked in the underground parking lot. I was shocked to see the crazy expensive cars lined up. We got out and went up in the most fanciest elevator I ever seen in my life.
Then we went into the house. The living room was bigger than my house. It was crazy. We was so awestruck, but we had to act like it was totally normal. This is not normal in Korea and I don't think I know a Korean who has even had such an experience or anything similar. We are talking rich and famous type house. Way crazy! We ate some really good food and then did our day of touring Anglican stuff. I saw the first Anglican church built like a Buddist temple. It was sorta like a church inside, but you had to take your shoes off. On the outside it was more like a temple. There were pictures of all people that was killed for their faith during the Korean War. The priest was more than excited to greet us. It was cool. Then we went to visit another church with similar history on a remote island. The early Christians would hide on these remote islands so they wouldn't get killed. The woman drove us everywhere and paid for everything during this voyage. He great-uncle was one of the first priests here. I could see just about the whole history of the message of Jesus within this family. What a great thing to have seen from the inside. Just amazing. The impact that this family had for the Kingdom of God is just insane. The largest church in the world is in Korea now. Without this family, it wouldn't have happened. Just amazing. They were the first. They risked their lives and the Gospel is rather well known here now.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
A Living Prayer
I have had a very interesting week. It is a long weekend, so life is slow yet fast. They ain't time to count my blessings, but they are a plenty this week despite my actions of selfishness. I guess that's what happens when you realize what a piece of crap you are while at the same time understanding the opposite. This is the story of my reflections this week. Just thought I'd share!
The last 2 days of the work week was spent in my chair at work in front of the computer. I sit there playing on the computer cuz they wadn't anything to do. It was mid-term week and 'Guest English Teachers' don't do anything. I was stoked about that. I've been sick and I've had the cough. It had been there for 3 weeks, so I begun thinking that it was just how life goes. I got used to it. On Friday, I woke up with crusty eyes. I went off to work and taught a total of one hour because the 2nd grade classes were 'going over the midterms'. Thankfully, I took myself to the doctor. I seen two doctors in 1 hour and got my 9 pills. I was back to work within the hour. Now that's some serious doctor action. I have pink eye and 'complications from the flu'. I had that 3 weeks ago and the leftovers ain't went away. I guess this is a threat to my life if left unchecked. 3 weeks was long enough. I give up on the gym which is depressing. I need to feel better so I can go back. It makes the week much more enjoyable to be able to take me out a walkin' and stroll off to the gym. I feel much better now that I've took all of these pills for 1 1/2 days.
Today, I woke up to a slightly crusty eye which was much better than yesterday. I cleaned my house and took out the trash. My house is small so it had went to stinkin' again. Just the slightest amount of food does that here. I done the laundry to make sure I had a clean pillow case. In addition, I have a friend coming from the Philippines. I met him during my two summers of missions training in Florida. Random! So, I had to clean up my house to some degree. I had planned to have a mat for him to sleep on, but my friend requested that I return his mat that he dropped off here 5 weeks ago just before his arrival. That's how my week has went. So, in 20 minutes he should be here.
Here I sit just a thinkin' about the random day that clearly had the hand of God clearly marking my path in front of me. I can't outrun Him cuz he's planned everything since before time begun. What the heck! Today after cleaning the house a bit, I went to a cafe called 'F-Hole'. No, I ain't making this up. A friend who works at the school just up the way on the same street recommended it to me. I went again today. I guess the owner is just amazing. He made every single table, wall and bit of flooring in the whole place. We can barely talk, but we sit there on google translate and chat it up all the same. I was told by my friend that the feeling in 'F-Hole' is like home with a twist. LOL! I know...sounds nasty right. After two or three visits I understand why. He asked for some song suggestions for his cafe. I thought that some Alison Krauss music would add to the folksy feeling he has going on in there. I told him about the song 'A Living Prayer' and he downloaded it. I knew he was Christian because some friends had told me already. He transfered the song to the MP3 player and played it. As she sung the first two lines he just randomly started to cry as he sit at the computer. He knows almost no English. Then he pointed to his arms. He had the most visible goosebumps I've ever seen. It was one of those crazy Holy Spirit moments that you could never doubt. I hadn't even told him what the song was about and he knew almost nothing about me.
After all of that, I met a teacher friend from Scotland. He's really interesting too. I guess his mom is in a mental institution and he is one of the only people in his village of 300 that has ever left the country. He studied theology and became a youth pastor before coming to Korea. We had some sushi before going back to the cafe for a quick cup of coffee. Good coffee is hard to come by here. Most of it is powdered and in a packet. It's not so good. Then we made the voyage back to my area by way of the underground shopping center that is vastly huge. After all of that, I'm waiting for a friend to come tonight. Life just keeps a rollin' along with twists and turns. Truly a living prayer this week!
The last 2 days of the work week was spent in my chair at work in front of the computer. I sit there playing on the computer cuz they wadn't anything to do. It was mid-term week and 'Guest English Teachers' don't do anything. I was stoked about that. I've been sick and I've had the cough. It had been there for 3 weeks, so I begun thinking that it was just how life goes. I got used to it. On Friday, I woke up with crusty eyes. I went off to work and taught a total of one hour because the 2nd grade classes were 'going over the midterms'. Thankfully, I took myself to the doctor. I seen two doctors in 1 hour and got my 9 pills. I was back to work within the hour. Now that's some serious doctor action. I have pink eye and 'complications from the flu'. I had that 3 weeks ago and the leftovers ain't went away. I guess this is a threat to my life if left unchecked. 3 weeks was long enough. I give up on the gym which is depressing. I need to feel better so I can go back. It makes the week much more enjoyable to be able to take me out a walkin' and stroll off to the gym. I feel much better now that I've took all of these pills for 1 1/2 days.
Today, I woke up to a slightly crusty eye which was much better than yesterday. I cleaned my house and took out the trash. My house is small so it had went to stinkin' again. Just the slightest amount of food does that here. I done the laundry to make sure I had a clean pillow case. In addition, I have a friend coming from the Philippines. I met him during my two summers of missions training in Florida. Random! So, I had to clean up my house to some degree. I had planned to have a mat for him to sleep on, but my friend requested that I return his mat that he dropped off here 5 weeks ago just before his arrival. That's how my week has went. So, in 20 minutes he should be here.
Here I sit just a thinkin' about the random day that clearly had the hand of God clearly marking my path in front of me. I can't outrun Him cuz he's planned everything since before time begun. What the heck! Today after cleaning the house a bit, I went to a cafe called 'F-Hole'. No, I ain't making this up. A friend who works at the school just up the way on the same street recommended it to me. I went again today. I guess the owner is just amazing. He made every single table, wall and bit of flooring in the whole place. We can barely talk, but we sit there on google translate and chat it up all the same. I was told by my friend that the feeling in 'F-Hole' is like home with a twist. LOL! I know...sounds nasty right. After two or three visits I understand why. He asked for some song suggestions for his cafe. I thought that some Alison Krauss music would add to the folksy feeling he has going on in there. I told him about the song 'A Living Prayer' and he downloaded it. I knew he was Christian because some friends had told me already. He transfered the song to the MP3 player and played it. As she sung the first two lines he just randomly started to cry as he sit at the computer. He knows almost no English. Then he pointed to his arms. He had the most visible goosebumps I've ever seen. It was one of those crazy Holy Spirit moments that you could never doubt. I hadn't even told him what the song was about and he knew almost nothing about me.
After all of that, I met a teacher friend from Scotland. He's really interesting too. I guess his mom is in a mental institution and he is one of the only people in his village of 300 that has ever left the country. He studied theology and became a youth pastor before coming to Korea. We had some sushi before going back to the cafe for a quick cup of coffee. Good coffee is hard to come by here. Most of it is powdered and in a packet. It's not so good. Then we made the voyage back to my area by way of the underground shopping center that is vastly huge. After all of that, I'm waiting for a friend to come tonight. Life just keeps a rollin' along with twists and turns. Truly a living prayer this week!
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Good and Bad
It ain't too many times when I look back on a weekend and I think that it shaped a period in my life or way of thinking. That's what happened this weekend. It all started with a plan to go and watch some bullfighting. I ain't never went to anything like it before, so I was up for it. Several friends planned to go, but on ditched and another had to work. So, it was just my friend Justin and me. I was hoping that there would be 4-8 people in our group as usual. But, it was what it was. Then it al began!
I met Justin a few subway stops away and we went on our journey. It was a random and fun weekend with lots of turns that couln't be imagined. So weird. This is why we call it 'Dynamic Korea!" There's one thing that ain't a lie, and that is that Korea is just that.. Dynamic!
The final destination was a town called Cheongdo. This is considered a village in Korea and they ain't nothing there except a bull festival and some peaches. There are a several thousand people, but there's a old school feeling. It is not so modern and a bit dirty. So among other things, it is not the best place in the world. We got on the train in Seoul and it goes 200 and some km/hr. Very..very.. very.. very.. fast! We made it to a very large city called Daegu. I'd guess that there are about 2 million people there. This is when the crazy stuff started to happen. We walked out of the train station and tried to take a taxi. We got in 3 taxis and asked if they could take us to one of 3 motels that we had researched near the train station. All 3 of them claimed to either not understand or not know where any of them were. Then we decided that the best thing was to find downtown and get us some food. That was my idea! After that, we needed to find a place to sleep. Well, there are many a motel in Korea, but most of 'em are not exactly that! Finally we talked to many people on the street asking in Korean where we should sleep. Nobody knew what the heck we were saying. It was pretty funny. Then we decided that we were tired so we had to find somewhere to sleep. It shouldn't be that hard in a city of 2 million. We found many 'motels' and we went inside one and paid $30 for the night. Just one heated bed and a nasty bathroom. It was very uncomfortable and very hot on the 3rd floor. We opened the windows and left to go to a bar. On the way back in we noticed a random hooker sitting on a chair next to the road. Random!
In the morning we tried to make it to Cheongdo for the bull festival. Justin was obsessed with getting there. We asked the KTX train worker and she told us to get on tthe 3rd train in English, so we did. The train went to rollin' down the tracks and I looked over at Justin and said, 'This ain't the right train!" We were headed to the other side of the country to a city called Busan. When we got off of the train, there were palm trees! I wore a coat on the train if that tells you anything. LOL! We was there for 8 hours and see an amazing mall, fish market, harbor and many other things. It wasn't enough time, but we give it our best for a mistake. Finally, we went back to Cheongdo by train.
Cheongdo was weird at best. We got there and tried to get some food. We wanted some specific food so we walked around asking people where a good restaurant was. They didn't say! Weird. We finally got to one and we were told to sit on the floor and eat, but as soon as we started to sit down the owner run over and told us that we should leave. He hates foreigners! LOL! We found another place and found some more people who told us where to sleep. We went there and found an empty room with a pile of blankets. We paid $40 for it. Then we went to a bar for some food again and found a very old school place. The service was amazing and we had a great time. Awesome conversation and food followed by wanting to go to a singing room. We went to one, but it was empty. We sit there and sung into the microphone until the lady came and told us a very high price. We left angry! We asked some fast food workers for help and we jumped into their car and they drove us to another one. Same price, so we left! We'z so pissed at all of these rural haters. I was content to just sleep after that!
In the morning, we found the only restaurant that was open on Sunday and then took a packed bus full of old people to the festival. There was an old singing clown just a singin' away as we got off of the bus. Weird. Then we went into this huge stadium and sit right in front down close to the fights. It wasn't bloody or anything. I was expecting it to be nasty. Most of the time, the bulls just run off and lost. It was funny at times too. Then we were greeted by this extreamly kind family in front of us. They wanted take us to this wine tunnel built into a mountain to taste Korean wine. Keep in mind that it was just a random family who decided to give us a tour of the village and the wine production area inside of a mountain. Then they dropped us back off at the train station. We took the train back to Daegu and finally had a standing room only ride the rest of the way back. The worker would bow each and every time she come into our train or left. We laughed pretty hard since most of the passengers were sleeping and she bowed anyway.
I met Justin a few subway stops away and we went on our journey. It was a random and fun weekend with lots of turns that couln't be imagined. So weird. This is why we call it 'Dynamic Korea!" There's one thing that ain't a lie, and that is that Korea is just that.. Dynamic!
The final destination was a town called Cheongdo. This is considered a village in Korea and they ain't nothing there except a bull festival and some peaches. There are a several thousand people, but there's a old school feeling. It is not so modern and a bit dirty. So among other things, it is not the best place in the world. We got on the train in Seoul and it goes 200 and some km/hr. Very..very.. very.. very.. fast! We made it to a very large city called Daegu. I'd guess that there are about 2 million people there. This is when the crazy stuff started to happen. We walked out of the train station and tried to take a taxi. We got in 3 taxis and asked if they could take us to one of 3 motels that we had researched near the train station. All 3 of them claimed to either not understand or not know where any of them were. Then we decided that the best thing was to find downtown and get us some food. That was my idea! After that, we needed to find a place to sleep. Well, there are many a motel in Korea, but most of 'em are not exactly that! Finally we talked to many people on the street asking in Korean where we should sleep. Nobody knew what the heck we were saying. It was pretty funny. Then we decided that we were tired so we had to find somewhere to sleep. It shouldn't be that hard in a city of 2 million. We found many 'motels' and we went inside one and paid $30 for the night. Just one heated bed and a nasty bathroom. It was very uncomfortable and very hot on the 3rd floor. We opened the windows and left to go to a bar. On the way back in we noticed a random hooker sitting on a chair next to the road. Random!
In the morning we tried to make it to Cheongdo for the bull festival. Justin was obsessed with getting there. We asked the KTX train worker and she told us to get on tthe 3rd train in English, so we did. The train went to rollin' down the tracks and I looked over at Justin and said, 'This ain't the right train!" We were headed to the other side of the country to a city called Busan. When we got off of the train, there were palm trees! I wore a coat on the train if that tells you anything. LOL! We was there for 8 hours and see an amazing mall, fish market, harbor and many other things. It wasn't enough time, but we give it our best for a mistake. Finally, we went back to Cheongdo by train.
Cheongdo was weird at best. We got there and tried to get some food. We wanted some specific food so we walked around asking people where a good restaurant was. They didn't say! Weird. We finally got to one and we were told to sit on the floor and eat, but as soon as we started to sit down the owner run over and told us that we should leave. He hates foreigners! LOL! We found another place and found some more people who told us where to sleep. We went there and found an empty room with a pile of blankets. We paid $40 for it. Then we went to a bar for some food again and found a very old school place. The service was amazing and we had a great time. Awesome conversation and food followed by wanting to go to a singing room. We went to one, but it was empty. We sit there and sung into the microphone until the lady came and told us a very high price. We left angry! We asked some fast food workers for help and we jumped into their car and they drove us to another one. Same price, so we left! We'z so pissed at all of these rural haters. I was content to just sleep after that!
In the morning, we found the only restaurant that was open on Sunday and then took a packed bus full of old people to the festival. There was an old singing clown just a singin' away as we got off of the bus. Weird. Then we went into this huge stadium and sit right in front down close to the fights. It wasn't bloody or anything. I was expecting it to be nasty. Most of the time, the bulls just run off and lost. It was funny at times too. Then we were greeted by this extreamly kind family in front of us. They wanted take us to this wine tunnel built into a mountain to taste Korean wine. Keep in mind that it was just a random family who decided to give us a tour of the village and the wine production area inside of a mountain. Then they dropped us back off at the train station. We took the train back to Daegu and finally had a standing room only ride the rest of the way back. The worker would bow each and every time she come into our train or left. We laughed pretty hard since most of the passengers were sleeping and she bowed anyway.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Choices
Life is so full of choices. I make the choice if I'm gonna post on here or not every day. I usually want to, but something comes up and I don't. They's so much in life that is totally up to us. Actually, I've been in a struggle to understand how much is really up to us and how much God has set up for us. I mean, he prepared good works for us to do before the foundation of Earth. How crazy is that! My main choice every day is if I will follow God or my-own-self. I am sure that it is true for every single human even if they don't know it. Or is it? I don't know to be honest.
I am at the point in my life where I usually know what will happen if I do X,Y or Z. What the heck is wrong with me? The reality is that everyone is just as messed up. Some are better at being able to hide it. Regardless of anything I do, I can't control God. He is there every time I choose to follow or to deny. What is it about this God who sits quiet next to me as I do stupid stuff and then is OK with me despite whatever? How can he tolerate such dumb behavior? I know the reason, but it don't make no sense. I try and figure it out and it is beyond me. I know why, but still I ask myself over and over. Perhaps that's why people keeps coming back around to Him despite our sometimes constant dumbness. This is in fact is not a choice. I ain't able to ignore any of this. So, it is not a choice. Arrr. I got the headache.
All of these things rolls around in my head over and over. My life may seem bad according to this post, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I am content in the here and now. I have so much more than I could ever ask for and it's more where that come from. As far as I can see, only good has happened to me. Some bad things have went down, but in the end they've been good. Friends and family has come and went and so have I. I couldn't have guessed any of this when I was 14 or even 17. I've been thinking lately about even being able to think on these things. It just flips me out. We are so complex and it is really true that they ain't nobody who can understand our thinking or our hearts. I get so excited when I talk to people that thinks about these things at all. There's so many who just plunder through life without even a thought on it. This post really has give me the headache, so I better get back to doing something else.
I am at the point in my life where I usually know what will happen if I do X,Y or Z. What the heck is wrong with me? The reality is that everyone is just as messed up. Some are better at being able to hide it. Regardless of anything I do, I can't control God. He is there every time I choose to follow or to deny. What is it about this God who sits quiet next to me as I do stupid stuff and then is OK with me despite whatever? How can he tolerate such dumb behavior? I know the reason, but it don't make no sense. I try and figure it out and it is beyond me. I know why, but still I ask myself over and over. Perhaps that's why people keeps coming back around to Him despite our sometimes constant dumbness. This is in fact is not a choice. I ain't able to ignore any of this. So, it is not a choice. Arrr. I got the headache.
All of these things rolls around in my head over and over. My life may seem bad according to this post, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I am content in the here and now. I have so much more than I could ever ask for and it's more where that come from. As far as I can see, only good has happened to me. Some bad things have went down, but in the end they've been good. Friends and family has come and went and so have I. I couldn't have guessed any of this when I was 14 or even 17. I've been thinking lately about even being able to think on these things. It just flips me out. We are so complex and it is really true that they ain't nobody who can understand our thinking or our hearts. I get so excited when I talk to people that thinks about these things at all. There's so many who just plunder through life without even a thought on it. This post really has give me the headache, so I better get back to doing something else.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Long Time No Write
I've wanted to write for about a week and I just couldn't pull myself toward this keyboard to write. I've been sick. Sick ain't fun. I don't think I've ever had the cold that travels before. It started after having some nice cake at an expensive coffee shop. It had a curtain around the table and the ever so common button on the table to call the server. Yep, I ain't kidding! There's a server who treats you like gold as you take each and every sup of coffee. I felt fine then, but then I took the subway home and then it started. My stomach started hurting more worser than you could imagine. Then I woke up and liketa fell over from the nasty feeling in my core. I forced myself to get up and get ready. It's Saturday in Korea! That means your friends expect you to travel to the capital of 12 million and party! How can you not show up when about 30 people you know has been sending you e-mails all week about how fun it will be? So, I got up took the subway alone to meet up with a few friends. We went the rest of the way. When we transfered on the subway, I felt as if I become a tiny little piss ant. We crammed in and then more people pushed and pulled until there was more people than should be allowed in 2 subway cars. I ain't tellin' no joke! I had bodies touching every part of my entire body except my head and neck. Remember, I was sick too! No wonder people get sick so much here.
My sickness has changed into a sore throat, chest cold, headache and terrible cough with nasty stuff lurkin' in my lungs. It just won't budge. Despite this, my days have been filled with unstoppable fun. It just don't stop. I don't never get bored. It's just too much to do. My sink currently has egg shells that needs to be cleaned out. I'll get to that when I finish this post. School is just a job. Dynamic Korea is just a way to say that it is organized. They gonna give me the third monthly schedule tomorrow that I've had in 4 days. I don't think they can make up their minds as to what they want me to do. I'll keep putting on a content face at school. They don't need to know no different. I started my Korean lessons last Thursday with a Korean friend. We have a great time. My friends gets to practice English as I learn Korean so it is a bit of a language exchange. Free is good.
Then there is my church. I liked my church in the cold hard town. Well, I liked many of the people. Let's just say that my church here is full of awesome people. It is a bit crazy. The pastor is from Michigan. He likes Africa too! 9 times out of 10 when he's a preachin' I feel as if I'm the only person there. I actually focus on what's being said and it applies to me. I really enjoy it! Beyond that, it ain't a week that goes by where they ain't a dinner after. I even had South African food. It is 100% meat. How cool is that? Protein is scarce here in Korea, so that was a treat. We usually go out to eat. It is strange going to a huge church with 10s of services. I don't know anyone in any of the other services. Besides, they are all Korean, so it is what it is. There's a bible museum one floor up from my service in the education building. Now that's amazing. I want to visit it soon. I hope it stays as fun and interesting for a good long while. They ain't no other place like it in the world. I can promise you that.
My sickness has changed into a sore throat, chest cold, headache and terrible cough with nasty stuff lurkin' in my lungs. It just won't budge. Despite this, my days have been filled with unstoppable fun. It just don't stop. I don't never get bored. It's just too much to do. My sink currently has egg shells that needs to be cleaned out. I'll get to that when I finish this post. School is just a job. Dynamic Korea is just a way to say that it is organized. They gonna give me the third monthly schedule tomorrow that I've had in 4 days. I don't think they can make up their minds as to what they want me to do. I'll keep putting on a content face at school. They don't need to know no different. I started my Korean lessons last Thursday with a Korean friend. We have a great time. My friends gets to practice English as I learn Korean so it is a bit of a language exchange. Free is good.
Then there is my church. I liked my church in the cold hard town. Well, I liked many of the people. Let's just say that my church here is full of awesome people. It is a bit crazy. The pastor is from Michigan. He likes Africa too! 9 times out of 10 when he's a preachin' I feel as if I'm the only person there. I actually focus on what's being said and it applies to me. I really enjoy it! Beyond that, it ain't a week that goes by where they ain't a dinner after. I even had South African food. It is 100% meat. How cool is that? Protein is scarce here in Korea, so that was a treat. We usually go out to eat. It is strange going to a huge church with 10s of services. I don't know anyone in any of the other services. Besides, they are all Korean, so it is what it is. There's a bible museum one floor up from my service in the education building. Now that's amazing. I want to visit it soon. I hope it stays as fun and interesting for a good long while. They ain't no other place like it in the world. I can promise you that.
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