forget money

I'm starting to wonder if I should have cared less about money and just done a year long mission instead of teaching in Korea...the things we cannot put price tags on...hm...

But this experience is one of its own as well. I just need to keep wise and not lose sight of what matters.

the future

So if I don't have a roommate next year I might get a kitten to keep me company...yes, I'm slowly turning into an old spinster and my cat number will increase with my years. ;)

Norae!

I went to a Norae Bang after school today with my 2 co-teachers and one of the young office workers. The 4 of us made a killing at McDonald's then we got like 40 extra minutes service (free) at the karaoke. So much fun. Did songs like Womanizer, Stuck by Staci Orrico, Wonderwall, Single Ladies, etc etc etc...so much awesomeness. And popular Korean songs as well.

(Mallory and me by a row of cherry blossom trees at Yeouido)

A couple of the teachers did taro card readings. It was all about love and relationships...things you can tell any Korean female stranger even without cards.

Now I'm home sick again for a third back-to-back cold with the constant weather change. I will say that the couple days interspersed with full on rays of sun are worthwhile...even though the change in air pressure sucks for my nasal passages and throat. I'm draining into my throat after the dry air irritated my nose. Ay, me.

And I'm pretty sure I'm making another trip to the knee doctor with worse news...seeing as I stopped my meniscus treatment halfway through to play in a tournament...uh-oh.

I will get my hair did on Friday. I'm always back and forth about going out on the weekends...as of late late. But this weekend's excuse is a bday party and another friend who leaves in a couple weeks.

I started my Korean learning again after roughly a 5 month hiatus. Ha...

Unplugged

Okay, so the issue isn't tough to figure out. I'm unplugged. And w/o a body of believers we are stranded. I am stranded...and I won't find a huddle of ppl chasing after me...which could be possible...Philippians 4:13 but I don't think that's what the intention is. So I need to stop being lazy and find me a body to go with my part. Cuz what I miss more even is me feeling like a contribution to others lives in a meaningful way. I needed that body to need me. It's a nice comfort. Maybe any underlying pride issues will be sifted through from this time of isolation from the body. Or it at least is surfacing some things I took for granted when I was actively involved in so many people's lives. Being in the midst of it all I probably wasn't even aware of the beauty of the relationships and just plain existence of it all. But now that I'm lacking...once I am given the gift of "family" again I can see how truly a gift we were given through the Bride.

Good support is key...

for many things but I'm taking this in the direction of good friends.

I was very very blessed at home. I love my friends in Korea. But it's different.

I miss my loves with lots of coffee chats. Seriously. When I was home over a month ago...it was so easy to just eat with ppl and chat and have so much fun! Like the roomie bfast that took forever at Bagels Unlimited. But every minute was worth the entertainment!!!

I need besties here...desperately!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I've been spending too much time with boys from ultimate. It's harder after having myself with a year of Girl Only time last year. I miss my roomies and Monday bible study ladies and all the girl nights of cookies and eating and movie nights...or roommate GG night. Mcflurry runs. Sigh...I just even miss biking every day to campus and back.

Delivery?

I wanted my first Korean food delivery phone call to be McDonald's. But we can't always have our first pick. So after calling 2 McDonald's that don't deliver...mind you they deliver in Seoul...I finally talked to a Korean restaurant to deliver me some hot stone bibimbap.

Now I just hope it makes it to my place. =)

Daejeon has nicer weather than Seoul

And I love how I just saw a commercial about a farmer in Korea and he's had a nose job, too...but he was talking about something like in a Riccola commercial form and there was a cow next to him in a plow field...

It's still cold in April

and I hear it won't really be that warm until May. So that means it's like half a year of cold and half a year of warmish.